单词 | mæg wiþ |
释义 | > as lemmasmæg wiþ a. intransitive. To be strong; to have power or influence. Old English ic mæg wel [compare Middle High German ich mag wol] : I am in good health. if I may: if I have any power in the matter; hence, if I can avoid or prevent it. I may over: I prevail over. (it) may well with: (it) can well support or endure. Old English (in medical recipes) mæg wiþ: avails against. Obsolete.The sense of quot. c1275 is ‘I do not know for what purpose you exist.’ ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > have power or might [verb (intransitive)] mayeOE to kick ass1977 the world > action or operation > ability > be able to [verb (intransitive)] sufficea1325 sustaina1382 awelda1387 mayc1395 dowa1400 shape1487 afford1584 to have it in him (also her, etc.)c1600 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > resist withstandc888 withsake971 forstanda1000 to stand again ——OE withsetc1000 again-standOE to stand againOE warnc1175 wiþerhaldec1175 atstandc1220 astand1250 withsitc1300 sitc1325 asitc1330 (it) may well withc1395 reversea1400 resist1417 ofstandc1425 onstandc1425 gainstand?c1450 endure1470 obsista1475 repugna1513 recountera1525 occur1531 desist1548 impugn1577 obstrigillate1623 counter-stand1648 stem1675 repique1687 to make face to1807 to fight off1833 to stick up1838 bay1848 withstay1854 buck1857 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) ix. 20 Exurge domine non praeualeat homo : aris dryhten ne meg mon. OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxix. 6 Ða cwæð he: Hu mæg he? Hi cwædon þæt he wel mihte. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) clxxi. 214 Ðeos wyrt..mæg wið manega untrumnyssa. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8043 Þatt ifell gast maȝȝ oferr þa Þatt follȝhenn barrness þæwess. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 1621 Ich not neauer to hwan þu miȝt. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Wisd. xvi. 17 In water, þat alle thingis quencheþ, more þe fijr myȝte [L. valebat]. c1395 G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale 1418 My body, at the leeste way, Ther shal no wight defoulen, if I may. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 149v The kyte is..a brid þat may wel with trauaile. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 295 Scheep..þat haue longe tayles may wors wiþ wynter þan þilke þat haue brode tailes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 5869 Þai salle for-soþ if atte I may, wirk ij dayes werk a-pon a day. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiii. 191 Lynne-seed and lik-seed Aren nouht so worthy as whete, ne so wel mowen In þe feld with þe forst. c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 197 For & þou ouer me miȝtist, as y ouer þee may. a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 1683 Wo is them that thow may over, and that is puir I. < as lemmas |
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