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单词 ataunt
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atauntadv.

/əˈtɔːnt/
Etymology: < French autant as much.
1. As much as possible, to the full, thoroughly. (Cf. Palsgrave ‘I quaught, I drinke all out, Je boys dautant.’) Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > fully or to full extent or in full
fullyeOE
wellOE
plenarly?1316
largelyc1325
abandonc1330
perfectly1340
sadlya1375
plainlya1382
fullily1385
largea1400
atauntc1400
taunta1550
in toto1573
good1577
soundly1577
richly1588
plenarily1615
sounda1616
plenally1631
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 179 Þat stonge myn hert ful stray atount.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems 167 A dronken foole that sparithe for no dispence To drynk ataunt til he slepe at table.
?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. Aijv Talewes and talkynge and drynkynge ataunte.
2. Nautical. With every mast standing and fully rigged; with all sails set. (Also ataunto, all-ataunto.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [adverb] > fully rigged
ataunt1622
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xiv. 32 A fayre gale of wind..so that wee might beare all a tauut [read a taunt].
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. i. 15 Not one soul of you puts his foot on shore until we are again all ataunto.
1867 J. MacGregor Voy. Alone in Rob Roy 58 All was ataunt again, and then the two yachts started.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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