| 单词 | five wits |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfive wits the Five points, (a) the principal points of controversy between the Calvinists and Arminians, relating to predestination, satisfaction, regeneration, grace, and final perseverance; (b) the reforms demanded by the ‘People's Charter’ of 1838 (see charter n.1 1d). The Five Ports: the Cinque Ports n. the five senses, five wits: see the nouns.extracted from fiveadj.n.five wits b. five wits: usually, the five (bodily) senses; often vaguely, the perceptions or mental faculties generally, = wits (in sense 3c or 4b). Also (jocularly) fifteen wits. Obsolete or rare (archaic). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun] > intellectual powers five witsc1200 wits1362 inwitc1380 spiritsc1450 fifteen wits1606 intellectuals1615 intellects1649 furniture1788 plant1861 marbles1902 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > faculty of sensation > the senses the fivefold mightsa1200 five witsc1200 passionsa1425 senses?1530 common senses1533 fifteen wits1606 Cinque Ports1633 cinque outposts, posts1649 perceptions1666 perceptives1835 c1200 Vices & Virtues 17 Ða fif wittes ðe god me betahte to lokin of mine wrecche lichame. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 117 Þy fyve wyttys, þe uttyr and þe ynnyr. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17018 Hering, sight, smelling and fele, cheuing er wittes five. c1460 Wisdom 163 in Macro Plays 41 Þe v. wyttis of my sowll with-inne. ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Biij I comforte the wyttes fyue The tastyng smellyng & herynge I refresh the syght and felynge To all creaturs a lyue. ?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew vii. f. cxiijv There is no breade in the sacrament ner wyne: though the fyve wittes saye all ye. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 960/1 The v. wittes bodely and ghostlye. 1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. B.6 Quhen thay bendit all thair fyue wittis, to stop the Regent. 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe v. i Haue you no pittie in your villanous iests, but runne a man quite from his fifteene witts? 1610 A. Cooke Pope Ioane 113 Though men..had bene..bewitched and distract of their fiue wits. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Owl i. 6 Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. 1878 J. Morley Diderot I. iv. 86 Everybody now has learnt that morality depends not merely on the five wits, but on the mental constitution within, and on the social conditions without. < as lemmas |
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