单词 | ere yet |
释义 | > as lemmasere yet d. With ere, before, etc., indicating the ultimate occurrence of something after an interval of time. In later use only in ere yet: before. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adverb] > whensoever or eventually yetc1400 as and when1565 successively1600 in the successa1676 ultimately1818 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 648 (MED) I schal efte here away..Ȝet er þy lyvez lyȝt leþe upon erþe. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1122 To bed ȝet er þay ȝede, Recorded couenaunteȝ ofte. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 196 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 101 Ȝit or ewyn enterit come yat bur office Obeyand yir bischoppis and bydand yam by. 1592 Arden of Feversham i. i. 92 Meanewhile prepare our breakfast,..For yet ere noone wele take horse and away. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 41 Before I departed yet I left her with Childe of a Sonne. 1674 T. B. Animadversions F. Loss 56 I have heard a Patient presently upon bleeding, before yet his Arm was tyed up, tell with rejoycing how he plainly felt his pain go off. 1739 M. Browne Poems 116 Ere yet the gath'ring Covy came to feed, The listless Swains the fav'ring Leisure chuse, Responsively to tune the rural Muse. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc viii. 70 Ere yet from Orleans to the war we went. 1828 W. Scott Death Laird's Jock in Keepsake for 1829 191 Ere yet the fight began, the old men gazed on their chief. 1866 C. H. Spurgeon Our Own Hymn-bk. 974 Ere yet the sun the day renews; O Lord, Thy Spirit send. 1903 J. Miller As it was in Beginning ix. xxxvi. 73 Child-wife that dies Ere yet the soul has waked to see The weaklings that may linger. a1973 J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarillion (1977) i. 35 The First War began..ere yet there was anything that grew or walked upon earth. < as lemmas |
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