grecen.

/ɡriːs/

Forms: α. Middle English–1500s grese, Middle English–1700s greece, Middle English–1800s greese, (1500s greesse, greysse, greis(s, 1500s–1700s gresse, 1600s grees, greice), Middle English–1800s grece. β. Middle English–1500s gryse, 1500s–1600s grice, grise, 1500s–1800s griece, (1600s griese, grize).

Etymology: < Old French grez, greyz, greis, plural of gré gree n.¹, taken as a collective singular in sense of ‘flight of steps, staircase’; contemporaneously a double plural greces , greeses was formed and used with the meaning ‘flight of steps’ and ‘steps in a flight’; whence in the 15th cent. a singular form grece was deduced (sense 2c).

Obsolete exc. dialect.

1. A flight of stairs or steps; a stairway.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun]

stairc1000

grece1382

grecingc1400

pairc1450

slip1480

pair, flight of stairs1556

scale1592

staircase1624

scalier1652

dancers1667

flight1703

stairway1767

apple(s) and pears1857

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps

gree1303

grece1382

grecesa1400

ascendant1548

stairs1585

gradatory1661

staircase1670

risec1702

flight1703

α.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xl. 6 He stiede vp by the greese therof.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10584 A grece þar was of steppis fijftene.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1590 Glydes doun by þe grece & gos to þe kyng.

1449 Contract in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 10 Thei shull make the Rofes..with all the Midilwalles and greses to the seid houses perteyning.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) 16 A grece there was, y-chesyled all of stone Out of the rocke.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxxviii. 119 He mountyd upe the grese of the palayes.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 178 The Lord Archbishop vpon the greece of the Quire, made a long Oration.

1777 tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus (rev. ed.) 86 They go up into the upper stories by greeses, and winding-stairs.

1869 J. P. Morris Gloss. Words & Phrases Furness Grece, the inclined way to a barn or granary, when built over a shippon or stable.

1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. Greese, stairs, steps.

β. c1475 Partenay 1427 On grice went vp, the kyng on bed thay founde.1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 122 He schal..make the gryse as my Lord wyll desyre yt.1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 22 Grees or Griece, Stairs.figurative.1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. vii. f. xi That lawe..was geuen for a season, to thentente it shoulde be a certaine griece or stayre to bring vs at the length to a better hope.1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Rudacke vii Ambition out sercheth to glory the greece.

a. plural. Steps or stairs (collectively); a set or flight of stairs; = sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps

gree1303

grece1382

grecesa1400

ascendant1548

stairs1585

gradatory1661

staircase1670

risec1702

flight1703

a1400–50 Alexander 332 Gase him doune be þe grecis a-gayn fra þe sale.

c1440 Generydes 1531 Downne of the greses he felle the hede before, And brake his nek.

c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 10588 This may but of iij^e yere old Went on the grecys [a1400 Vesp. grece, Trin. Cambr. grees] I ere of told.

1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 20 The litil botrie vndir the gresys.

1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Bij And the panne shal be set upon a hye steyre or gryses.

1557 Bible (Whittingham) Acts xxi. 35 When he came vnto the greces, he was borne of the souldiers, for the violence of the people.

b. plural. Steps or stairs (in a flight); spec. in Heraldry with the spelling grieces (whence grieced adj.).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps > steps in a flight

greces1380

grecingc1400

stepping1608

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > cross > [noun] > steps or stairs (in a flight)

greces1610

α.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) vi. 70 At the right syde, as men comen dounward 16 Greces.

c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 1161 Salomones Throne was with sex greces exaltate.

c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 21 A table sett at the upper ende of the hall, going upp twelve greeses.

1682 H. Keepe Monumenta Westmonasteriensia 31 Ascending from this Picture by two or three Greeses or steps, until you come to the Rails that compass in the High Altar.

β. 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 30^v Certayn skaffoldes of borde, with grices or steppes one aboue an other.1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 81 The steers or gryses coming vpp to the altare.1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. 125 The daughters of the Genius..in a spreading ascent, vpon seuerall grices, help to beautifie both the sides.1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iv. ix. 212 A Crosse crossed, mounted vpon three Grieces.1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake (1699) 79 Fair round Stairs, some fifteen grieses high Land you upon a Terrass.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 459/2 A pillar mounted on Grices or Stepps.1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) vii. 108 Grieces: Steps, or Degrees.figurative and in extended use.1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 420 Þey gon not to heuene bi greesis þat god haþ ordeyned to lede þidur.1540 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives Introd. Wysedome (new ed.) Pref. sig. A v^v The steppes and grices, wherby..my lord your father..hathe clymed to nobilitie.1606 J. Reynolds Dolarnys Primerose (1880) 64 Phœbus..Climbing the lofty gresses of the skies.1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 499/1 Neither is the Popes reuenge thus appeased, some higher greeces yet remaine, on which his Greatnesse..must display it selfe.1625 W. Morrell New-Eng. 17 Whose hayre is cut with greeces, yet a locke Is left [cf. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus, Comam in gradus frangere, to turne or set the heare in facion of greeses].

c. singular. A single step or stair in a flight.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > step

stepc825

treadlea1000

stopelc1200

degreec1290

passa1400

pace1423

grece1448

stair1530

footing1725

stair-step1794

gradin1839

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps > a step

stepc825

degreec1290

gree1303

stridea1400

grece1448

stair?1473

footstep1549

grade1698

stepping-stone1837

α.

1448 Will of Henry VI in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 355 vj. grecis to be before the high auter, with the grece called gradus chori.

a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xlvii. f. lxxxvii^v/2 The deuyll threwe her downe from the hyghest grece to the loweste.

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Dii^v The toppe of the ladder or first greese.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. S1^v/1 Staffel in their [sc. the Germans] language signifieth a grees or steppe of a paire of staires.

1641 W. Prynne Antipathie i. i. 26 Upon the third or fourth Greice of those steps he was slaine.

β. 1559 Will of Sir Richard Tyson (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/42B) f. 487 The lowest Grice of the Alter.a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 199 Let me..lay a sentence Which as a greese or step may helpe these louers. 1640 W. Somner Antiq. Canterbury 166 The third or fourth griece or step of the Pulpitum.figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 123 Vio. I pittie you. Ol. That's a degree to loue. Vio. No not a grize: for tis a vulgar proofe That verie oft we pitty enemies. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 16 Euerie grize of Fortune Is smooth'd by that below. 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica li. 720 How low must the descent be where humility is the uppermost greece.

3. attributive. grece-head, the top of a flight of stairs.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > top of staircase

stairhead1534

grece-head1556

1556 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 91 The lytyll chamber at the greisshedde.

1559 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 123 One standing bed stede being in the grecehed chamer.

1583 Inventory in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 380 In the chamber over grese head.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Grees~heead, the stair-head.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	grece
释义	grecen. /ɡriːs/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s grese, Middle English–1700s greece, Middle English–1800s greese, (1500s greesse, greysse, greis(s, 1500s–1700s gresse, 1600s grees, greice), Middle English–1800s grece. β. Middle English–1500s gryse, 1500s–1600s grice, grise, 1500s–1800s griece, (1600s griese, grize). Etymology: < Old French grez, greyz, greis, plural of gré gree n.¹, taken as a collective singular in sense of ‘flight of steps, staircase’; contemporaneously a double plural greces , greeses was formed and used with the meaning ‘flight of steps’ and ‘steps in a flight’; whence in the 15th cent. a singular form grece was deduced (sense 2c). Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. A flight of stairs or steps; a stairway. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] stairc1000 grece1382 grecingc1400 pairc1450 slip1480 pair, flight of stairs1556 scale1592 staircase1624 scalier1652 dancers1667 flight1703 stairway1767 apple(s) and pears1857 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps gree1303 grece1382 grecesa1400 ascendant1548 stairs1585 gradatory1661 staircase1670 risec1702 flight1703 α. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xl. 6 He stiede vp by the greese therof. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10584 A grece þar was of steppis fijftene. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1590 Glydes doun by þe grece & gos to þe kyng. 1449 Contract in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 10 Thei shull make the Rofes..with all the Midilwalles and greses to the seid houses perteyning. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) 16 A grece there was, y-chesyled all of stone Out of the rocke. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxxviii. 119 He mountyd upe the grese of the palayes. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 178 The Lord Archbishop vpon the greece of the Quire, made a long Oration. 1777 tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus (rev. ed.) 86 They go up into the upper stories by greeses, and winding-stairs. 1869 J. P. Morris Gloss. Words & Phrases Furness Grece, the inclined way to a barn or granary, when built over a shippon or stable. 1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. Greese, stairs, steps. β. c1475 Partenay 1427 On grice went vp, the kyng on bed thay founde.1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 122 He schal..make the gryse as my Lord wyll desyre yt.1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 22 Grees or Griece, Stairs.figurative.1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. vii. f. xi That lawe..was geuen for a season, to thentente it shoulde be a certaine griece or stayre to bring vs at the length to a better hope.1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Rudacke vii Ambition out sercheth to glory the greece. 2. a. plural. Steps or stairs (collectively); a set or flight of stairs; = sense 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps gree1303 grece1382 grecesa1400 ascendant1548 stairs1585 gradatory1661 staircase1670 risec1702 flight1703 a1400–50 Alexander 332 Gase him doune be þe grecis a-gayn fra þe sale. c1440 Generydes 1531 Downne of the greses he felle the hede before, And brake his nek. c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 10588 This may but of iij^e yere old Went on the grecys [a1400 Vesp. grece, Trin. Cambr. grees] I ere of told. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 20 The litil botrie vndir the gresys. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Bij And the panne shal be set upon a hye steyre or gryses. 1557 Bible (Whittingham) Acts xxi. 35 When he came vnto the greces, he was borne of the souldiers, for the violence of the people. b. plural. Steps or stairs (in a flight); spec. in Heraldry with the spelling grieces (whence grieced adj.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps > steps in a flight greces1380 grecingc1400 stepping1608 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > cross > [noun] > steps or stairs (in a flight) greces1610 α. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) vi. 70 At the right syde, as men comen dounward 16 Greces. c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 1161 Salomones Throne was with sex greces exaltate. c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 21 A table sett at the upper ende of the hall, going upp twelve greeses. 1682 H. Keepe Monumenta Westmonasteriensia 31 Ascending from this Picture by two or three Greeses or steps, until you come to the Rails that compass in the High Altar. β. 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 30^v Certayn skaffoldes of borde, with grices or steppes one aboue an other.1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 81 The steers or gryses coming vpp to the altare.1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. 125 The daughters of the Genius..in a spreading ascent, vpon seuerall grices, help to beautifie both the sides.1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iv. ix. 212 A Crosse crossed, mounted vpon three Grieces.1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake (1699) 79 Fair round Stairs, some fifteen grieses high Land you upon a Terrass.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 459/2 A pillar mounted on Grices or Stepps.1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) vii. 108 Grieces: Steps, or Degrees.figurative and in extended use.1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 420 Þey gon not to heuene bi greesis þat god haþ ordeyned to lede þidur.1540 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives Introd. Wysedome (new ed.) Pref. sig. A v^v The steppes and grices, wherby..my lord your father..hathe clymed to nobilitie.1606 J. Reynolds Dolarnys Primerose (1880) 64 Phœbus..Climbing the lofty gresses of the skies.1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 499/1 Neither is the Popes reuenge thus appeased, some higher greeces yet remaine, on which his Greatnesse..must display it selfe.1625 W. Morrell New-Eng. 17 Whose hayre is cut with greeces, yet a locke Is left [cf. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus, Comam in gradus frangere, to turne or set the heare in facion of greeses]. c. singular. A single step or stair in a flight. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > step stepc825 treadlea1000 stopelc1200 degreec1290 passa1400 pace1423 grece1448 stair1530 footing1725 stair-step1794 gradin1839 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps > a step stepc825 degreec1290 gree1303 stridea1400 grece1448 stair?1473 footstep1549 grade1698 stepping-stone1837 α. 1448 Will of Henry VI in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 355 vj. grecis to be before the high auter, with the grece called gradus chori. a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xlvii. f. lxxxvii^v/2 The deuyll threwe her downe from the hyghest grece to the loweste. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Dii^v The toppe of the ladder or first greese. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. S1^v/1 Staffel in their [sc. the Germans] language signifieth a grees or steppe of a paire of staires. 1641 W. Prynne Antipathie i. i. 26 Upon the third or fourth Greice of those steps he was slaine. β. 1559 Will of Sir Richard Tyson (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/42B) f. 487 The lowest Grice of the Alter.a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 199 Let me..lay a sentence Which as a greese or step may helpe these louers. View more context for this quotation1640 W. Somner Antiq. Canterbury 166 The third or fourth griece or step of the Pulpitum.figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 123 Vio. I pittie you. Ol. That's a degree to loue. Vio. No not a grize: for tis a vulgar proofe That verie oft we pitty enemies. View more context for this quotationa1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 16 Euerie grize of Fortune Is smooth'd by that below. View more context for this quotation1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica li. 720 How low must the descent be where humility is the uppermost greece. 3. attributive. grece-head, the top of a flight of stairs. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > top of staircase stairhead1534 grece-head1556 1556 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 91 The lytyll chamber at the greisshedde. 1559 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 123 One standing bed stede being in the grecehed chamer. 1583 Inventory in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 380 In the chamber over grese head. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Grees~heead, the stair-head. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1380
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