单词 | mean space |
释义 | > as lemmasmean space 2. Intermediate in time; coming or occurring between two points of time or two events; intervening. †in the mean season (also space): = in the meantime at meantime n. 1 (obsolete). Also (with omission of preposition) †the mean season, †mean space (= meanwhile adv.). Now only in compounds (see meantime n., adv., and adj. and meanwhile n. and adv.).Occasionally (in 16th cent.) in legal use; cf. mesne adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [adjective] > intervening middlea1200 meana1382 interloping1603 interim1604 intercurrent1611 odd1618 intermediate1623 intervenient1629 intermedian1656 interveninga1781 interstitial1841 the world > time > [adverb] > meanwhile all the whilec888 to whilec950 the whilec960 amongOE emethena1300 to whilesa1300 therewhilesc1320 that whilesc1330 i-whilesa1340 in (that, this, which, etc.) meantime1340 in the meanwhilea1375 (all) the (also this, that) meantimea1382 in the mean season (also space)a1382 the mean seasona1382 the meanwhilea1382 in the meantimec1384 for the meanwhilec1390 in the mean(s) whilesc1390 the whilesa1400 the whilsta1400 whilsta1400 (in) the meanwhile that?1418 therewhilec1430 mesne1439 meanwhile1440 for the meantime1480 while1508 in the while1542 in the mean1565 in the mean way1569 interim1580 in (that, this, which, etc.) meanwhilea1593 meantimea1593 this while1594 mean space1600 among-hands?1609 between (betwixt obsolete or archaic) whiles1647 ad interim1701 per interim1724 interimistically1890 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Wisd. xiv. 16 After-ward in þe mene comyng tyme waxinge shrewde custum, þis errour as lawe is kept. 1449 Rolls of Parl. V. 150/1 At any tyme meane betwix the puttyng in execution..and the saide Juggement given. 1473–5 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1830) II. p. lviii To delyver unto her a lawefull estate of the seid meese and land..the meane season perceyved by theym. c1500 Melusine (1895) 347 And þat meane sayson came two knightes to Lucembourgh. 1509–10 Act 1 Hen. VIII c. 12 §2 They..shall nott be restored to any meane issues or Profyttes of Landes. ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Evij And for lacke of mynstrellis þe mean season Now wyll we begyn to syng. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccix. f. Ciiv/2 In the mean space theder came the lorde of roy. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere iii. p. cciiii In the meane waye marke me this. a1558 W. Stanford Expos. Kinges Prerog. (1567) f. 84v The king shal haue the meane issues. 1581 W. Averell Life & Death Charles & Iulia sig. Bviiv Meane space fayre Iulia lookes about. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xx. 26 In the mean space..we went to see the towne. 1600 Maydes Metamorphosis v, in R. W. Bond Lyly's Wks. (1902) III. 386 Meane space, vpon his Harpe will Phœbus play. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. vi. 32 Meane space word was brought that Agesilaus was very neere at hand. 1627 J. Carter Plaine Expos. Serm. in Mount 112 When the performance of Gods promise is long delayed, and nothing almost appeareth in the meane season,..then [etc.]. 1654 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vii. 815 In the mean space Piso went about in vain, to assaile the Navy. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses x. 537 Mean space Circe a Ram and black Ewe there had ty'd. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 305 There was no mean portion of Time between their Formation and Animation,..they were living Beings..as soon as they were formed. 1710 W. Salmon Family Dict. (ed. 5) 138 You may take Powers of Rosemary, which you may bathe upon the Lids of the Eyes five or six times a day, shutting the Eye-lids in the mean season very close. 1714 S. Salter Serm. 19 In the mean space what Security can a People have? 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 165 In the mean space..Jenkins had his right leg..carried off by a cannon shot. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 176 Mean space, I lay insensible to all that had passed. (in the) mean space c. (in the) mean space (see mean adj.2 2). < as lemmas |
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