单词 | festinance |
释义 | † festinancen.1 Scottish. Obsolete. Confinement, restraint. Esp. in in festinance. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] prisonOE bonda1225 beclosing?c1225 narrowth?c1225 holdc1330 banda1400 festinance1426 duressc1430 enclosingc1440 closeness1530 durancea1535 closure1592 reclusedness1613 confinement1646 immurement1736 immuration1895 hack1899 prisonment1900 lockdown1973 1426 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1426/29 The sheref sal ger arrest sick ydil men ande ger kep thaim in festynance. 1484 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 128/2 He was nocht at liberte and fredome bot in festinans and warde the tyme of the makin tharof. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. v. 262 I will kepe him in [ane] festynens. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) x. xii. f. 376, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Festinance Takin was all the nobilite that euadit the slachter and put in festinance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021). † festinancen.2 Obsolete. rare. Haste, hurry; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Festinance,..a Hastening. 1925 C. Van Vechten Firecrackers iii. 42 The sidewalk was crowded with pedestrians scurrying in full festinance in both directions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021). < n.11426n.21727 |
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