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单词 litten
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littenn.

Forms: Old English líc-tún, Middle English lytton(e, letton, 1500s lyttyn, 1600s litton, 1500s– litten.
Etymology: Old English líc-tún , < líc corpse, lich n. + tún enclosure, town n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈlitten.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
A churchyard. (Cf. church-litten n.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun]
littenc900
charnel1377
burying-place1382
fosse?a1425
churchyard1477
golgotha1604
God's acre1605
cemetery1613
burial-place1633
dormitory1634
burying-ground1711
burial-field1743
graveyard1767
burial-ground1803
burial-yard1842
boneyard1866
Boot Hill1901
necropole1921
memorial park1927
grave-site1953
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iii. xvii. (Schipper) 268 His lichama..wæs..on þæra broþra lictune bebyriged.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 4087 Bot when he come in to þat chirche-lyttone þo, Twey wemen he founde þere.
1474–5 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 18 It. of the gift of the Bochers for grounds to her Stallys with oute the letton ijs.
1474–5 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 20 It' in cleansyng of the Lytton xjd.
1506 Will of John Leer (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/15) f. 60v To be buried in the cloister or in the lyttyn of the Trynite.
1595 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 145 The wale against the litten.
1614–15 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 165 Masonn mendinge the Church litton wale, 5s.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Litten, as Church-litten; a word us'd in Wiltshire for a Church-yard.
1798 J. Jefferson & W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words (MS.) (at cited word) The buryg. ground at Holy Ghost Chapel at B'stoke is called the Litten. It is used also at Newbury in Berks.
1818 in H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

littenadj.

/lɪt(ə)n/
Etymology: pseudo-archaic participle of light v.2
= lighted adj. Usually in combination, e.g. dim-, gray-, red-litten.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > illumination > [adjective] > illuminated or lit up
lightc1300
lightedc1450
illuminate?a1475
circumfulseda1513
illustrate1526
in light1534
lighted1596
illightened1609
enlightened1640
unblown1647
luminated1652
illuminated1664
lit1783
alight1817
lit-up1835
littena1849
light-struck1923
a1849 E. A. Poe Haunted Palace vi And travellers now within that valley, Through red-litten windows, see Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody.
1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 72 And ‘salvum me fac Domine’ they sung Sonorous, in the ghostly going out Of the red-litten eve along the land.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 9 After the weary tossing of the night And close dim-litten chamber.
1896 S. R. Crockett Cleg Kelly 407 Sal Kavannah moved into the gray-litten space.
1899 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 319/1 It [yellow hair] sprayed out like a cloud of litten gold.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

littenv.1

Forms: Also Middle English litnien, Middle English Orm. littnenn.
Origin: Perhaps a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse lita.
Etymology: ? Extended form (with suffix -en suffix5) of Old Norse lita = Old English wlitan to look.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To look to, unto. Also const. for to with infinitive: to rely on.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > trust in, rely on [verb (transitive)]
to set one's heart on (also (in)c825
littenc1175
leanc1230
fie1340
trusta1382
resta1393
reappose1567
repose1567
lite1570
rely1574
to set (up) one's rest1579
rely1606
to look back1646
recumba1677
to pin one's faith (also hope, etc.) on (also to) a person's sleeve1791
to look to ——1807
bank1884
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 7 Forþi ne litmie [? read litnie] namon to swiðe to þisse liue.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6115 Þet birrþ wislike nittenn. Vpp o þe sellfenn. & o þa Þatt littnenn to þin fode.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10209 Child for to gett þai littend lang.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xlvi. 25 Pharao, and all them yt litten vnto him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

littenv.2

Etymology: ? < lit lite n.5: see -en suffix5.
Obsolete.
transitive. To diminish.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)]
littleeOE
anitherOE
wanzelOE
lessc1225
slakea1300
littenc1300
aslakec1314
adminisha1325
allayc1330
settle1338
low1340
minisha1382
reprovea1382
abatea1398
rebatea1398
subtlea1398
alaskia1400
forlyten?a1400
imminish14..
lessenc1410
diminish1417
repress?a1425
assuagec1430
scarcec1440
small1440
underslakec1440
alessa1450
debate?c1450
batec1460
decreasec1470
appetisse1474
alow1494
mince1499
perswage?1504
remita1513
inless?1521
attenuate1530
weaken1530
defray1532
mitigate1532
minorate1534
narrow?1548
diminuec1550
extenuate1555
amain1578
exolve1578
base1581
dejecta1586
amoinder1588
faint1598
qualify1604
contract1605
to pull down1607
shrivel1609
to take down1610
disaugment1611
impoverish1611
shrink1628
decoct1629
persway1631
unflame1635
straiten1645
depress1647
reduce1649
detract1654
minuate1657
alloy1661
lower?1662
sinka1684
retreat1690
nip1785
to drive down1840
minify1866
to knock down1867
to damp down1869
scale1887
mute1891
clip1938
to roll back1942
to cut back1943
downscale1945
downrate1958
slim1963
downshift1972
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2701 Hwan Hauelok saw his folk so brittene, And his ferd so swithe littene, He cam driuende upon a stede.
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