| 单词 | failing this |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfailing this a. intransitive. To be absent or wanting. Now only of something necessary or desirable (coinciding with sense 5); often in present participle with noun or pronoun, as failing this = ‘in default of this’ (see failing prep.). In early use, †To be wanting to complete a specified quantity; also impersonal. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > be insufficient [verb (intransitive)] > be wanting trokec1000 lacka1175 wantc1225 missa1250 fail13.. fault1377 defaulta1382 defaila1400 inlaik1533 13.. Pol. Songs (Camden) 202 Trewth is i-faillid with fremid and sibbe. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1486 Of enoch com matusale, Liued..til þat nine hundret yeir war gan And seuenti, falid it bot an. a1400–50 Alexander 4279 Forþi failis vs all infirmit[e]s of ffeuyre & of ells. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 741 What if fyue faylen of fyfty þe noumbre? c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xvii. 182 There faylethe but 5 Degrees & an half, of the fourthe partie. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 63 Make þat þe splentis & byndynge faile above þe wounde. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 284/3 The preues of the lignages were fayled. 1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 §6 If suche heyres shulde fayle. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. iii. 29 Let there not faile from the house of Ioab one that hath an issue. View more context for this quotation a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) (Corrections pages), Shaded over head with trees, and with matts when the boughs fail. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 58 Failing proof then of invented trouble. < as lemmas |
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