单词 | at eventide |
释义 | > as lemmasat eventide 1. The time of the evening; evening. In later use chiefly in at eventide. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] evenOE eventideOE eveningOE eventimeOE evea1250 evetimec1300 even whilea1375 evetidea1382 supper timec1390 supper whilea1425 forenight1513 evening-tide1521 supperwardc1563 after-supperc1596 Vesperugo1600 vesper1613 far-day1650 eveg1675 evg1777 dew-falla1822 OE Dream of Rood 68 Ongunnon him þa sorhleoð galan earme on þa æfentide. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. x. 83 Ic wæs abysgod, & eac me afeoll seo æfentid [OE Hatton eac asah seo æfentid] þæs dæges. c1330 Sir Degare (Auch.) l. 218 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 294 Þe maiden tok þe chil [emended in ed. to child] here mide, Stille awai in auen tide. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms cxl. 2 Euentid sacrifise. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 97 Þe eventide comynge toward..wiþ þe swerde of seynt Edmond was he stiked. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. i. 8 And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the secounde dai. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) l. 1601 Þy pater noster say ȝerne, In morowe & mydday & euentyde. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 22 In þe eventide discusse þe maner, what þou hast ben þis day in worde, worke, & þouȝt. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 801/42 Hoc crepusculum, a hewyntyde. 1548 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. xv. f. xcvij The euentyde drewe nye. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxiv. 63 And Isaac went out, to meditate in the field, at the euentide. 1687 W. K. Blount tr. Compl. Office Holy Week i. 252 She came to him at eventide, carrying a bough of an olive tree. 1765 Public Ledger 14 Sept. 884/3 I pensive sit, and all alone Observe calm even-tide come on. 1782 W. Cowper Nightingale & Glow-worm in Poems 326 Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when even tide was ended. 1802 A. Bannerman Tales of Superstition & Chivalry 104 Soft and cool the eventide fell On the heats of the high day-noon. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend vi. 290 Those same soft bells at eventide Rang in the ears of Charlemagne. 1916 I. S. Cobb Local Color vii. 251 He returned home at eventide with nothing to show for his day's industry except lamentable memories and two tired flat feet. 1949 D. Du Maurier Parasites (1950) xx. 243 There used to be an independence to the day. Never knowing, in the morning, how it would end at eventide. 2005 E. Hofmann tr. W. P. Reese Stranger to Myself 12 At eventide the shadows fell far across the land. < as lemmas |
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