| 单词 | every little ekes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevery (also a) little ekes a. transitive. To increase, add to, lengthen. Also absol. †neither to eke nor to pair (Scottish): neither to add to nor take from. Proverb, every (also a) little ekes. archaic or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] echeOE ekec1200 multiplya1275 morea1300 increase13.. vaunce1303 enlargec1380 augmenta1400 accrease1402 alargea1425 amply?a1425 great?1440 hainc1440 creasec1475 grow1481 amplea1500 to get upa1500 improve1509 ampliatea1513 auge1542 over1546 amplify1549 raise1583 grand1602 swell1602 magnoperate1610 greaten1613 accresce1626 aggrandize1638 majoratea1651 adauge1657 protend1659 reinforce1660 examplify1677 pluralize1750 to drive up1817 to whoop up1856 to jack up1884 upbuild1890 steepen1909 up1934 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 57 Þe holie man fasteð forto..eken his holinesse. a1300 E.E. Psalter civ. [cv.] 24 He ayked his folk swith mikel on an. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 133 Theyr bounté for to eeke. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 26 Þey..ȝekun þer synnis. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 13 Nowe..þe pricis are ekid. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 531/2 I eke..my gowne is to shorte for me, but I wyll eke it. 1566 J. Knox Hist. Reformation in Wks. (1846) I. 130 This miserie..which the malice of man cane neyther eak nor paire. 1599 S. Harsnett Discov. Fraudulent Pract. I. Darrel 193 As they say, Every thing Eiketh. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 96 Quhen the partie hes named ane certaine number of witnes, he may not thereafter eike, nor pair the number of the witnes. 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 10 A litle eekes. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 372 It not being princely to..eek the same [sc. the vail of the tabernacle], another was contrived. 1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 13 Some patch'd Doghole ek'd with Ends of Wall. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. xxi. 377 Without eking or curtailing God's precious truth. 1829 J. Clare Ode to Autumn in A. Cunningham Anniversary 76 The moaning brook, that ekes its weary speed. 1907 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Proverbial Phrases (new ed.) 24 A little ekes, quoth Jenny Wren, when she pissed in the sea. < as lemmas |
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