单词 | aspirement |
释义 | † aspirementn. Obsolete. rare. 1. Breathing, breath. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > [noun] orthOE breatha1300 spiritc1350 aspirement1393 breathinga1398 suspiry1398 spirtc1415 respiration?a1425 respiring?a1425 windc1450 soufflement1483 anding1487 spiring1533 spiration1568 suspiration1604 aspiration1608 expiration1638 eupnœa1706 flation1708 rebreathing1877 ventilation1891 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 93 Air..Of whose kinde his aspirementes Taketh every livissh creature. 2. Aspiring, aspiration, steadfast upward desire. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [noun] folebayrie1340 ambition?a1439 ambitiousnessa1500 affectation1549 aspire1562 aspiring1584 philotimy1593 ambitiositya1600 aspirement1607 aspiration1609 votea1626 anhelation1628 breathinga1635 drivenness1902 1607 Lingua iii. vi, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 399 By which aspirement she her wings displays, And herself thither, whence she came, upraise. a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1704) V. ii. 184 And not Christ only, but God also is the object of our Aspirement. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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