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单词 estray
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estrayn.adj.

/ɪˈstreɪ/
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman estray, verbal noun (taken concrete) < estraier to stray: see astray n.
A. n.
a. Law. A stray animal; ‘any beast not wild, found within any Lordship, and not owned by any man’ (Cowell).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > pet > stray
stray1498
estray1594
wavenger1825
1292 Britton i. xviii. § 3 Weyf ou estray nent chalengez de eynz le an et le jour si soit al seignur de la fraunchise.]
1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. Chancerie §37 The like is it of an Estray or a Deodand.
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 334 All such Estrays and Cumelings as..should be taken or found upon the Abbots demesnes.
1714 W. Scroggs Pract. Courts-leet (ed. 3) 105 The Estray shall be proclaimed in the two next Market Towns.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 298 Any beast may be an estray, that is by nature tame or reclaimable.
1776 in Stonehouse Axholme (1839) 145 The Lord's Bailiff, or receiver of estrays.
1849 H. W. Longfellow Pegasus in Pound in Seaside & Fireside 74 The..village crier..proclaiming there was an estray to sell.
b. transferred.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > straying or going astray > person or thing that has strayed or been lost
estray1581
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1602) 589 Many things haue escaped me vnseen..and it shall not bee harde for him that meeteth with such Estrais to take and lodge them in their right Titles here.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxviii. 230 This happy Estray, thus restor'd, begs Leave, by me, to acknowledge its lovely Owner.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxviii. 350 This poor little wanderer was an estray from his fellows.
1881 E. C. Stedman in Scribner's Monthly Oct. 817 How he seizes on some promising estray.
B. adj.
Of an animal: That is astray. Also transferred. Chiefly U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > stray
estrayed1535
stray1607
estray1789
1789 Kentucky Gaz. 28 Mar. 1/3 All persons shall have access to the Estray-book, without paying any fee therefor.
1865 F. M. Nichols tr. Britton I. 216 Things found, which do not belong to anybody, as wreck of sea, beasts estray [Fr. estravagauntes] rabbits, hares, etc.
1876 3rd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1875–6 426 Many..of these new varieties of grain are not new... They are old varieties estray..from remote quarters..of the globe.
1889 Harper's Mag. June 158/2 A farmer living near a middle Georgia town, one day found an estray cow in his pasture.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

estrayv.

/ɪˈstreɪ/
Etymology: < Old French estrai-er: see astray v.
archaic.
intransitive. To stray n. literal and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > stray or go astray
dwelec900
miswendOE
to fare astray (misliche, amiss)c1175
to step astray, awry, beside1297
weyec1315
outrayc1330
strayc1330
waivea1375
forvay1390
outwandera1400
stragglea1425
waverc1485
wander?1507
swerve1543
wift?a1560
random1561
estray1572
egar1584
to go a-strayinga1586
to step aside1787
err1819
moider1839
maverick1910
1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes iii. vii. 199 If the auncient Fathers had so doone, they had not estrayed so farre from the Apostles simplicitie.
1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. C5 The lambes that sometime did estray.
1602 S. Daniel Hymens Triumph iv. iii This nymph one day..Estrays apart, and leaves her Company.
1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. ii. ix. 289 How could it be that men should so prodigiously neglect the glory of God, unless they were estrayed from their end, since they were made for it?
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Eclogues vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 44 One of the sisters led Gallus, estraying by Permessus' streams, To th' Aon mountains.

Derivatives

eˈstrayed adj. that has strayed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > stray
estrayed1535
stray1607
estray1789
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 7 §5 Estraied cattell claimed and proued by the owners.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1613) iii. xxiii. sig. Dd2v The sweet touch of that hand seemed to his estrayed [earlier eds. astraied] powers so heauenly a thing, [etc.].
1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 140 b And likewise you shall present all such cattel estraied as shall usually come within your office.
1871 W. R. Williams God's Rescues 70 The Shepherd seeking his estrayed sheep.
eˈstraying n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > straying or going astray
vagationc1340
straya1400
outstray?a1425
will gate1440
out-way going1532
straying1548
out-straying1589
aberrationa1594
estraying1598
taveringa1599
straggling1601
wandering1711
1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 318 But euermore despaire..From former course of minde doth cause estraying.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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