单词 | estray |
释义 | estrayn.adj. 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. 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). < n.adj.1581v.1535 |
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