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单词 lithy
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lithyadj.

/ˈlɪði/
Forms: Old English liðig, Middle English leoþi, Middle English leþi, Middle English–1500s lethy, lethie, Middle English–1500s lithie, lithye, 1500s lythey, 1500s–1600s lythy, lythie, 1600s– lithy.
Etymology: Old English liðig = Old Norse liðug-r yielding, nimble, free, unimpeded, Middle Dutch ledech unimpeded, unoccupied (Dutch ledig, leeg empty, vacant, unoccupied), Middle High German ledic free, unimpeded (modern German ledig unoccupied, vacant). The ulterior etymology is obscure; see Kluge s.v. ledig.
dialect.
a. Pliable, flexible, supple; soft, unresisting.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective]
tougha700
lithyc1000
softc1330
weak?a1366
plianta1382
persha1398
plyinga1398
lithec1400
supplec1400
plicable?a1425
curvable?1440
lethec1440
scretec1440
pliablec1475
bowable1483
bowing1483
waldinc1485
supple1513
flexible1548
limber1565
lither1565
bending1567
osier1577
wiry1588
buxom1590
withy1598
suppliable1599
renderingc1600
fluxible1607
winding1609
bendable1611
flippant1622
flexive1629
flexile1633
maniable1633
compliant1667
flectible1705
limp1706
yieldy1757
complying1774
limberly1782
willowy1791
switchy1810
wandy1825
twistable1853
bendsome1861
whippy1867
swack1868
bendy1873
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints (1885) I. 224 Þa gelæhte petrus hire liþian hand.
a1023 Wulfstan Homilies xlvi. 234/22 Heo [sc. a man's heart] biþ liðig swa clað..ongean deofles lare.
c1315 Shoreham (E.E.T.S.) vii. 590 Ȝef eny loȝ þer leþi were.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. ii. 903 Þat stalk is ferst feble and leþy, and þat for defaute of hard humour.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) (1495) vi. vi Suche children ben nesche of flesche, leþi [1535 lethye, 1582 lythie] and pliant of body.
a1400 Disp. Mary & Cross 483 in Leg. Rood (1871) 147 I bar þi fruit leoþi and lene.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 9779 Þenne were he leþyere [Vesp., Gött. wayker; c1460 Laud lethier] þen he was ere.
14.. Sir Beues (MS. M.) 647 All to leþy the spere was wrought.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. cccliiii So ofte falleth the lethy water on the harde rocke, tyl it haue thorowe persed it.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes 121 (margin) Yt thei might haue their ioynctes nymble & lithye.
1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xii. M m ij b And up shee leapes, and lithie raignes with hand she turneth round.
1598 R. Carew Herrings Tayle sig. B Their lithie bodies bound with limits of a shell.
a1618 J. Sylvester New-polished Spectacles in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1184 The World's Weapons were but lythie Wax; And Vertue's Shield is of celestiall Fier.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 227 It hath many small weake, but lithy and tough slender greene stalks.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. x. 187 His limbs were now thoroughly lithy, and he brandished his fore legs in a manner perfectly wondrous.
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 64 259 A man..in the full active use of his lithy form.
b. figurative. Weak, feeble. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [adjective] > insecure, weak
lithy1377
brucklea1400
flickering1430
queasy1459
weaka1538
infirm1557
slender1562
crazed1600
unsinewed1604
ticklish1606
touchy1620
crazied1652
flicketing1674
shaky1841
shackling1846
wonky1919
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > weak in character or will
nesheOE
feeblec1200
softc1275
weaka1425
infirm1526
lithya1533
unheaded1577
spiritless1595
pappy1597
irresolute1600
marrowless1607
seducible1613
wax-nosedc1615
unsinewy?1623
reedy1628
swayable1642
short-spirited1647
weak-headed1654
lath-backed1676
will-less?1680
tiffany-trader1702
weak-minded1716
lax1751
lax-fibred1762
nerveless1783
wishy-washy1801
marcid1822
molluscous1836
boneless1848
weedy1849
putty-headed1857
flabby1862
weak-kneed1863
fibreless1864
invertebrate1867
chinless1881
backboneless1882
featherweight1885
spineless1885
weak-willed1885
totter-kneed1887
akratic1896
effete1905
weakling1906
gutless1915
willowish1919
Milquetoast1932
nannified1960
ball-less1967
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 184 Ac theologie..A ful lethy þinge it were ȝif þat loue nere.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 157 My cause..may be made lethy [L. infirmari], and it may be reysed up.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Ll.iv Ye are..in aduersitie feeble and lethy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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