单词 | garboil |
释义 | garboiln. Now rare. Confusion, turmoil; disturbance, tumult; discord, controversy. Also: an instance or state of confusion, disturbance, discord, etc.; a disorderly or tumultuous event. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] winOE torpelness?c1225 disturbance1297 workc1325 disturblingc1330 farec1330 frapec1330 disturbing1340 troublingc1340 blunderc1375 unresta1382 hurling1387 perturbationc1400 turbationc1400 rumblec1405 roara1413 rumourc1425 sturblance1435 troublec1435 stroublance1439 hurlc1440 hurly-burlyc1440 ruffling1440 stourc1440 rumblingc1450 sturbancec1450 unquietness?c1450 conturbationc1470 ruption1483 stir1487 wanrufe?a1505 rangat?a1513 business1514 turmoil1526 blommera1529 blunderinga1529 disturbation1529 bruyllie1535 garboil1543 bruslery1546 agitation1547 frayment1549 turmoiling1550 whirl1552 confusion1555 troublesomeness1561 rule1567 rummage1575 rabble1579 tumult1580 hurlement1585 rabblement1590 disturb1595 welter1596 coil1599 hurly1600 hurry1600 commotion1616 remotion1622 obturbation1623 stirrance1623 tumultuation1631 commoving1647 roiling1647 spudder1650 suffle1650 dissettlement1654 perturbancy1654 fermentationa1661 dissettledness1664 ferment1672 roil1690 hurry-scurry1753 vortex1761 rumpus1768 widdle1789 gilravagea1796 potheration1797 moil1824 festerment1833 burly1835 fidge1886 static1923 comess1944 frammis1946 bassa-bassa1956 1543 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 170 Itt appeared the Mayor to have ben a great sturrer of this garboyle. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 55 The Citie of Lisbon, as also all the rest, were in great garboile. 1620 Concession to J. Merrick in R. Sanderson Rymer's Fœdera (1717) XVII. 256 The late Troubles and Grayboyles happened in that State. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 426 He journied to Rome..but..raising great garboyles among the Scholars of that place, Cardinal Boncompagno..expelled him thence. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. ii. 148 Before the intestine garboyles of this island. 2003 T. Griggs Rogue's Wedding xix. 197 He was really just a..dumb duck born in a garboil, plucked out of a tumult. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † garboilv. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To garble (something) (in various senses of garble v.); esp. to remove unwanted material from (something); to distort (a text, idea, etc.).In quot. 1555 as a verbal noun. ΚΠ 1555 R. Eden tr. V. Biringucci Pyrotechnia in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 332 Meltynge, fynynge, dryinge, garboylyng, and such other broylynges. ?1575 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. (new ed.) 395 By their authoritie they thrust in themselues, to glose the Bible, and garboyle the scripture [Sp. ameter la mano en la sagrada escriptura]. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 201/2 Take a wilde Ducke, plucke him, and garboyle him. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 402 To tip down so many Lords at a time, and to garboil the House, as often as any party should have a great majority. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xiv. 229/1 They did garboil out of every Hundred, the Half of such Baggage and Refuse Stuff. 1879 Funny Folks 8 Nov. 357/4 Correspondents' pens is mightier than the sword, and can't be made to cook up and garboil things just to make 'em go down nice and tasty. 2. transitive. To cause (a nation, region, etc.) to be in a state of turmoil or discord; to confuse, agitate, or disturb (someone or something). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > throw into commotion or disorder [verb (transitive)] stirc950 disturbc1290 troublec1330 turmoil1530 to set cock on the hoopa1549 garboil1572 blend1594 irrequiate1598 storm1609 uproara1616 embroil1619 dissettle1631 unsettle1651 hurly-burly1678 unhinge1679 disrest1726 commote1852 1572 H. Middlemore in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 5 The occasion presently offeryd, of the Lowe Contreys so greatly garboyled. 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits vii. 101 Amongst the first qualities, there is none which so much garboileth this power [sc. vnderstanding] as excessiue heat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1543v.1555 |
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