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单词 of old
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of old

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of old.
a. As postmodifier: belonging to an earlier time or period. See also of eld at eld n.2 2.
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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).
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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.
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