单词 | highting |
释义 | † hightingn.1 Obsolete. Adornment; embellishment. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [noun] hightinga1387 bellishingc1440 beautifying1532 beautification1600 purfling1613 embellishment1623 embellishing1641 lovelifying1916 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] tiffing?c1225 hightinga1387 prickinga1425 perching?1578 pranking1580 primpingc1590 sprunkinga1685 prinking1687 smugging1736 titivation1805 beautifying1836 prink1869 dolling1906 makeover1966 the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > promising behotingc1300 beheting1303 warranting1303 hightinga1387 hightingc1390 pollicitationc1455 plighting1555 conjuring1589 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 313 By cause of þe more hiȝtynge and fairenesse [L. causa ornatus dignioris]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. x. iii. 557 Þey [sc. elementis] beþ nat bare ne voyde of hiȝtynge noþir ournament [L. ab ornatu]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). hightingn.2α. Middle English heetyng, Middle English hehtynge, Middle English heteyng, Middle English heting, Middle English hettyng, Middle English hetyng, Middle English hetynge, Middle English hightynge, Middle English hihtyng; Scottish pre-1700 hyghting, pre-1700 hyghtyng, pre-1700 1800s hechting /ˈhɛxtɪŋ/, 1800s heghtin'. β. Middle English hoting, Middle English hotinge, Middle English hotynge. Scottish in later use. Now rare. The action of promising or pledging. Also: a promise, a vow. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > promising behotingc1300 beheting1303 warranting1303 hightinga1387 hightingc1390 pollicitationc1455 plighting1555 conjuring1589 c1390 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 244 Þis kniht..þouhte folfulle his hihtyng þat he hihte to þe fende. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 785 (MED) Þis heting..was bath fals and fikil. c1400 Comm. on Canticles (Bodl. 288) in T. Arnold Sel. Eng. Wks. J. Wyclif (1871) III. 33 (MED) God is trewe in his heetynge. ?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) l. 24613 Fair er þe wordes and þe hetinges Þat þou to vs now schewes and bringes. a1475 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 18 This knyȝt..thouȝt to fulfyl his hettynge. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxiv. §11. 90 Thai ere witnes of his hightynge. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) ii. 178 Thay tuke thair wapinnis, and went fordwart, full of ire and hope of victorie, desiring now the Hethruschis to mak thair hechting. c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1927) III. ii. 5328 With avowing I may nocht dele, na with hechting. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 300 He promittit in hechting to caus the toun men doe or die. 1819 J. Rennie St. Patrick III. 197 Gin ye like tae haud me at ma heghtin'. ?c1835 Hist. Sketches Upper Ward Renfrewshire 39 He was eggit up tilt by the deil's hechting to him that he soud na want ony pleisour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1387n.2c1390 |
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