单词 | out-straying |
释义 | † out-strayingn. Obsolete. An act of straying from the right path; a transgression or aberration. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > straying or going astray vagationc1340 straya1400 outstray?a1425 will gate1440 out-way going1532 straying1548 out-straying1589 aberrationa1594 estraying1598 taveringa1599 straggling1601 wandering1711 1589 R. Rogers Diary 9 July in Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries (1933) 84 I have set downe oft how such distemperature ariseth, namely, by being unwil[ling] to take paine about the weaning of my self from secret outstrainge into unlawful liberty. 1605 R. Rogers Seven Treatises 426 in M. van Beek Enq. Puritan Vocab. (1969) 110 And by all my..neglects of duty and out-strayings let me not be discouraged. 1619 W. Whately Gods Husbandry 105 The wickednesse, and out-strayings, and finall reuolts of some. a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ix. 152 If he finde us in our out-strayings, and give us both direction and will to come into the right way againe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1589 |
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