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单词 anhele
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anhelev.

Forms: Middle English anele, 1500s anheale, 1800s anhele; also Scottish pre-1700 anele.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French anheler; Latin anhēlāre.
Etymology: < (i) Middle French aneler, anheler (French anhéler ) to breathe (c1190 in Old French), to puff, pant (a1272), to aspire (to) (1354), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin anhēlāre to gasp, pant, to thirst for, pant after < anhēlus gasping, panting (see anhelous adj.). In sense 2 probably reborrowed < classical Latin anhēlāre.Compare Old Occitan anelar to breathe (1420; also in sense ‘to desire (something)’), Catalan anhelar (14th cent.), Spanish anhelar to puff, pant (a1400), to desire (something) strongly (1424), Portuguese anelar to pant, to desire (something) strongly (1645), Italian anelare to breathe heavily (late 15th cent.), to aspire to (something) (1555–7).
Obsolete.
1.
a. transitive. Apparently: to pursue (something) furiously.
ΚΠ
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 723 He werreȝ..Boþe wyth bulleȝ & bereȝ..& etayneȝ þat hym anelede, of þe heȝe felle.
b. intransitive. With for, to. To long or wish for something with breathless eagerness. Cf. pant v. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > aspire to or to do [verb (transitive)]
pursuea1382
affect?a1425
anhelea1500
to hawk after (for)?1510
affectate1560
to breathe after ——a1593
emule1595
aspire1596
emulate1597
to fawn upon1634
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 3140 Constantynys sonnys thre, Þat anelyde to þat ryalte.
1536 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Convocation I. 49 With most fervent desire, they anheale, breathe, and gape for the fruit of our convocation.
2. intransitive. To gasp, pant. rare.In quot. used humorously, in mock-Latin verse.
ΚΠ
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 501/1 In candent ire the solar splendor flames;..His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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