单词 | me metes |
释义 | > as lemmasme (etc.) metes 1. transitive (impersonal). me (etc.) metes: it occurs to me (him, etc.) in a dream; I (he, etc.) dream. Also with noun complement, as me (etc.) metes sweven: I (he, etc.) dream a dream. Frequently in past tense.In Old English with accusative (or occasionally dative) of person and accusative of dream (when expressed; cf. Old Icelandic draum dreymdi mik (see dream v.2 1)). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [verb (impersonal)] me (etc.) metes sweveneOE me dreamsc1300 eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xxvi. 58 Ge..magon hwæthwugu ongitan swelce eow m[æt]e be eowrum frumsceafte. OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxxvii. 5 Witodlice hyt gelamp þæt him mætte. OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) xiii. 1 Gyf ænig witega..secge ðæt hine mæte swefen. c1300 St. Clement (Harl.) 21 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S.-Eng. Legendary (1956) 516 Me mette þat on of oure godes her com bifore þe. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 4140 (MED) At tyme of midniȝt..him mette a greuous cas. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. vi. 109 Thenne mette [v.r. mete] me moche more þan ich by-fore tolde Of þe mater þat ich mette fyrst on maluerne hulles. c1450 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 210 Me mette how I lay in the medewe thoo. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 422 Þen him metis Þat he bowes to hire belechiste. 1532 Romaunt Rose in Wks. G. Chaucer f. cxxviii/1 Me mette suche a sweuenyng That lyked me wonders wele. a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) ii. ii. 26 All night me met eke that I was at Kirke. [The speaker is ‘Robert Moth, an Antiquary’.] < as lemmas |
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