| 单词 | of excess |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof excess a. The state of exceeding or being in greater quantity or degree than is usual or necessary; exuberance, superabundance; an instance of this; an extreme degree or amount; an ‘extreme’, a ‘height’ (of wickedness, etc.). †of excess = in abundance. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [noun] > state of physical stupefaction dazedness1340 excessa1387 stupora1398 stupefaction?a1425 dazingc1522 damp1542 daziness1554 dazzling1581 stupidity1603 stupidity?1615 stupidness1619 stupification1650 dream1717 dazzlement1841 daze1855 dazement1855 lull1856 mazement1901 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > superabundance flood1340 overabundancea1382 abundancec1384 excessa1387 superfluitya1387 surcarka1400 superabundance?a1475 superfluencea1477 abundancy?1526 superfluousnessa1540 pleurisya1550 inundation1589 exsuperance1603 plethory1606 overplus1609 exuberancy1611 redoundancy1623 superabundancy1628 exsuperancy1638 exuberance1638 floodings1674 plethora1700 embarrassment1815 profligacy1834 overfullness1884 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [noun] > state of wonder > accompanied by stupefaction excessa1387 astounedness1549 stound1567 astoniedness1580 stun1836 transfixture1886 mazement1901 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 335 Þere is noȝt gret passynge and exces..in chele noþer in hete. 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. v The medlynge in conclusion So was ennewed by proportion That fynally excesse was there none. ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. ff.ii Than I to hym gaue strokes of exces. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 269 The excesse of vertue worketh no manner of annoyance. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xv. 68 So distribution should vnder excesse, And each man haue enough. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 88 Commend the large excess Of spacious Vineyards; cultivate the less. View more context for this quotation 1719 E. Young Busiris iv. 49 To behold thee In such Excess of Sorrow, quite destroys me. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxvi. 492 Their vivacity; their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it,..all conduce to show their excess of spirits. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. v. 193 This [he] treated as the highest excess of insolence. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 636 Kirke..was not the last, to whom this excess of wickedness was popularly imputed. (object) of excess b. Phrases: in, to (an) excess, to carry (something), to drink, eat, go, run to excess. †(object) of excess, that possesses some quality in excess. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > excessively [phrase] > to excess at overdonec1175 in (also to) superfluitya1398 in, to (an) excess1526 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Pet. iv. 4 That ye runne not also with them vnto the same excesse of ryote. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 67 The desire of Power in Excesse, caused the Angels to fall. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §261 An Object of surcharge or excess, destroyeth the Sense: As the light of the Sun the eye, a violent sound (near the Ear) the hearing. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 144 [Canary wine] leaves least dreggs behind, though one drinke it to exces. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. iii. 113 Sophia..was yielding to an Excess . View more context for this quotation 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 6 'Till, carried to excess..This favourite good begets peculiar pain. 1838 W. Beaumont Exper. Digestion 252 Eating voraciously or to excess. 1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 1 At present we have government in excess. 1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants vi. 110 Raw meat and other nutritious substances, given in excess, kill the leaves. < as lemmas |
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