单词 | manqualm |
释义 | † manqualmn. Obsolete. Loss of life, mortality, esp. from plague; plague, pestilence; an instance of this. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] manqualmeOE deathOE starveOE woundc1369 pestilencea1382 murraina1387 mortality?a1425 plaguea1475 pest1479 cladec1480 traik1513 mortalness1530 pestility1570 eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 664 Þy ilcan geare wæs micel mancuealm. eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iv. i. 85 Wæs þær seo monigfealdeste wol, mid moncwealme. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1112 Hit wæs swiðe hefigtyme & sorhfull þurh ormætne mancwealm. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 3908 Þær after com swulke mon-qualm þat lute hær cwike læfden. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8599 So gret manqualm þat monimon al vnbured lay. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 15677 So grete a manqualme com þerwith, for dede mot non vnneþis haf grith. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 3348 (MED) Ne worþe þee of hym non oþere acorde Bot manqualme [v.r. mon quellyng] wiþ many spere and swerd. a1425 (a1400) Titus & Vespasian 262 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1903) 111 291 (MED) Thei seid hit bytokened werre strong, Manqualme, eiþer hungere long. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) i. 1 Moryn or manqualm..that nerand corompis all men. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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