单词 | of old |
释义 | > as lemmasof old Phrases of old. a. As postmodifier: belonging to an earlier time or period. See also of eld at eld n.2 2. ΚΠ c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 637 (MED) Auorbisne is of olde, iwrne, Þat node makeþ old wif urne. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 221 (MED) We wer ȝour faders of fold [sic for alliteration; = off old] þat fayre ȝoue haue fondon. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxvi[i.]. 5 Then remembred I the tymes of olde, & the yeares that were past. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 5034 And all giltes [beu] for-gyffen & greuans of old. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxvii. 28 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 103 I fell to thinck..Vppon the yeares of old. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth i. 18 Being all in blacke after the manner of old. 1785 W. Cowper Epist. to J. Hill in Task 288 Some few that I have known in days of old Would run most dreadful risk of catching cold. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 72 Its [sc. France's] natural scenery..rich beyond all others in the traces of the men of old. 1895 A. J. Evans in Folk-Lore Mar. 21 A Tree-Goddess akin to the Dryads of old. 1985 National Westm. Bank Q. Rev. May 2 There is a natural tendency in the United Kingdom to regard unemployment as simply yet another political issue over which the main political parties and their supporters joust like knights of old. 1995 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Mar. 32/3 You may care, in the manner of those quaint Biblists of old, to allow the pages to tumble open as they will. b. Adverbially: in an earlier time, formerly; (also) for a long time (preceding the present). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] erea822 fernOE whileOE erera1000 whilereOE onceOE somewhile1154 whilomc1175 herebeforec1200 somewhilesa1250 yorea1250 orc1275 rather?a1300 erewhilec1305 sometimea1325 sometimec1330 at or in sometime1340 in arrear1340 heretoforea1375 fernyear1377 once upon a timec1380 behinds1382 beforetimea1393 of olda1393 erenow1393 umquhilea1400 erst14.. fornec1400 yore whilec1400 of before1402 late1423 abefore1431 beforetimes1449 whilesc1480 sometime1490 aforrow?a1513 behind1526 quondamc1540 in foretime(s?c1550 erstwhile1569 erstwhiles1569 aleare1581 erewhiles1584 sometimes1597 formerly1599 anciently1624 olim1645 somewhile since1652 quondamly1663 forepassed1664 sometimea1684 backward1691 historically1753 time back1812 had-been1835 when1962 the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > long ago yorec900 for longOE langer1303 long agoc1350 far1362 for yorea1375 of yore ago(ne)a1375 long time1376 of olda1393 anciently1502 langsyne?a1513 oldlya1513 in old season1582 old1609 antiquely1652 then-a-days1688 (the) year one1754 way back1870 in yore1876 way back when1921 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 1003 (MED) Who so drawth into memoire What hath befalle of old and newe, He may that werre sore rewe, Which ferst began in Paradis. c1395 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 1615 For dette which thow owest me of oold. 1432 Rolls of Parl. IV. 406/1 Ye verray and trewe makyng of old used and continued. 1478 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 613 I am aqueyntyd wyth your condycyons of old. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 4 Intill ane place callit Ecolumkill,..Lang of the ald thair wes thair sepultuir. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 139 You alwayes end with a iades tricke, I knowe you of olde . View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Milton Sonnets xv, in Poems (new ed.) 58 Who kept thy truth so pure of old. 1727 D. Defoe Protestant Monastery 18 Babies, Play-Things, and other pretty Innocencies used of old. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 97 It was the..sacred place, where of old the everlasting fire was preserved. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems i. 4 You of old did hold them Something worthy. 1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot i. i. 5 The second daughter, who knew of old that papa must always live near a place of worship. 1991 Independent 3 Dec. 36/1 For social progress we may not look to Sweden as of old. < as lemmas |
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