单词 | otherwhiles |
释义 | otherwhilesadv. In later use Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (northern). ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > sometimes or occasionally whiloma900 whilea1000 stoundmealc1000 stundumOE otherwhileOE umquhile1154 with and withc1175 by stoundsa1225 otherwhilesc1225 umbestound?c1225 umbewhilec1230 then and thenc1275 sometime…sometime1297 umstounda1300 by while13.. over while13.. sometime1340 umbe throwea1350 at timesa1382 now and again (also anon, eft, now)a1393 umbwhile1393 eftsoona1398 sometimea1400 by sithesc1400 umbestoundsc1400 from time to (formerly unto) time1423 now and (also or) then1445 ever now and nowa1470 when and whenc1470 occasionallya1475 in timesa1500 whiles?a1500 whilomsa1500 sometimes1526 somewhiles1528 at whiles1540 ever now and then1542 a-whiles1546 somewhiles…, somewhiles1547 at sometimes1548 now and thenc1550 ever and anon1558 by occasions1562 on (also upon) occasion1562 as soon…as soon1581 every now and then (also again)1642 by a time1721 once and a while1765 ever and again1788 periodically1825 in spots1851 c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 637 (MED) Nis ha [sc. pride] nawt i claðes, ne i feahunge utewið, þah hit beo merke þrof, & makunge oðer hwiles. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 41 Lates þet summe oðer hwiles weilawei vncundeliche makiet. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 94 Þeos fondunge kimeð oðerwhile [a1250 Nero oðhules] of godd, of mon oðerhwiles [a1250 Nero oþerhules]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 341 (MED) Þerfore oþer whiles among [L. per intervalla], he putte awey somwhat of suche manere doynges wiþ faire speche. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) viii. 65 The ky may otherwhiles be withdrawe. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 203 Other whyles Arthure was aboven and other whyle undir. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 66 (MED) Oþerwiles [L. interdum] men striuen for o peny riȝt shamfully. 1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. B.i Thys prouerbe byddeth us otherwhiles to dissemble wyth dissemblers, namelye where singilnes woll take no place. 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 4 To hunt two diuers beasts, as the Foxe otherwhiles, and other whiles the Hare. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 537 Double diligence and ouermuch curiositie both hurt other~whiles. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 156 She did nothing but weep, and otherwhiles also threw her self upon the ground. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Otherwhiles, sometimes. 2. = otherwhile adv. 2.In Middle English difficult to distinguish from sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > at another time otherwhilec1225 elsec1400 elsewhen1418 anotherwhilea1425 otherwhiles?a1425 othertimes1447 othersome time1585 othersome whiles1606 ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 117 (MED) Alle siche turnen hem aftir dyuerse stirynges þat bihappeþ to hem..by vnpacience of wrongis þat þei suffren, eiþir of feendis or of outward dyuerse bateilis, and oþirwhilis by stirynges..of goostly enemyes. a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 125 The kynge shall often tymes sende..his juges to represse..riatours; ffor wich cause he shall odre whiles ride in his owne person. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. a*iii Somtyme with swete mylke of deuocion, or outher whyles among with..swetnesse of grace. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance Pref. sig. avv Sometyme aboundaunt, otherwhiles shorte and compendiouse. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1413/2 The hole or vaut being sometimes filled with water, and otherwhiles neither bottome, trees, or water maie be perceiued. 1608 T. Pickering in W. Perkins Disc. Witchcraft Ep. Ded. sig.¶2v Sometime by rare sleights and delusions; otherwhiles by hurting, by curing. 1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 1004 Sometimes the wind shifts thus without being intermitted, and other whiles it will be stark calme. 1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 100 Tones, Sometimes of Joy, and otherwhiles of Mones. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 221 Other whiles I fancy'd, they were all gone. a1765 E. Young Poet. Wks. (1859) 324 The whyles thou doest triumph in their decay; And otherwhyles, their dying to delay. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor II. xvi. 237 Ye see I was trumpeter at the castle, and had allowance for blawing at break of day, and at dinner-time, and other whiles when there was company about. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 185/1 Sometimes I go out tatiein'; otherwhiles I mak' a by knittin'. 1897 Dublin Rev. Oct. 394 Sometimes the points are definitive, otherwhiles the writer leaves himself liberty for a different arrangement. 1920 C. M. Doughty Mansoul i. 14 Yet otherwhiles, playing on silver wires. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 203 Otherwhiles, at other times. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.c1225 |
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