单词 | outspring |
释义 | outspringn. Something which springs out or issues forth. Also in extended use: a result or outcome. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] > springing water springOE outspring1538 the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > origination or derivation originalc1425 originationc1443 offspringa1500 origin1528 descent1532 outspring1538 breeding1549 pedigree1566 exorture1578 genesis1604 edition1605 derivation1609 elementing1638 procedure1651 ingeneration1652 originacy1659 filiation1799 upgrowth1844 1538 Prymer in Eng. after Vse of Sarum sig. Pijv Thou..multiplyest the sprynges of it with softe showres, it shall englad the out sprynges. 1847 R. W. Griswold Prose Writers Amer. 484/2 The stream of thought and feeling, in him, is like the bubbling out-spring of a natural fountain, which flows forth with gaiety and freedom, if it flows at all. 1891 J. A. Froude Divorce Catherine of Aragon Introd. 12 The era of Elizabeth was the outspring of the movement which Henry VIII commenced. 1998 Columbian (Vancouver, Washington) (Nexis) 4 Jan. b9 Local voters also detonated plans for a juvenile detention facility, along with light rail, new schools and other outsprings of growth. 2001 Africa News (Nexis) 14 May They and Taylor can be seen as the black outsprings of Adolf Hitler. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). outspringv. 1. a. intransitive. To spring out or issue forth. Also figurative. Now chiefly literary and poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > suddenly springeOE outleaplOE outspring?a1200 loukc1275 start?1316 bursta1325 to start outa1382 out-braida1400 sprentc1400 thringa1500 flush1548 flunge1582 protrude1626 explode1840 flounce1865 plunge1891 dartle1893 ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 49 Blod hym ut þan heafode utwylþ, and on suma hwilum..hyt utsprinþ þur þa twa litlan þurlu, þa innan þara ceolan beoþ, forþan þa ædran beoþ tobrocone, þa inna þa þurlu beoþ. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 14247 Fur ut [altered from for up] sprengen [c1300 Othov.r. vt sprong], speren brastlien; sceldes gonnen scanen, scaftes to-breken. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9442 (MED) Duntes þer were strong inou þat þet fur out sprong Of þe helmes al aboute. c1390 G. Chaucer Physician's Tale 111 The fame out sprong [v.rr. out spragge, oute spronge] on euery syde Bothe of hir beautee and hir bountee wyde. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 494 (MED) Jn hire mouþe he blew a bronde; Þereafter nouȝth swiþe lang A lyoun at hire nauel out sprang. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 6658 (MED) Afftir the strok the blode out sprong, He hadde a strok a schafftmon long. a1450 (a1400) Medit. Life & Passion of Christ (BL Add.) (1921) 122 (MED) Milk and hony under þi tonge Holy Writ sais hit is outspronge. c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) 1305 (MED) Har scheldes breeke asonder, Har dentes ferd as donder; Þe peces gonne out-sprynge. 1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 183 His cloikit craft of malice dois outspring. 1622 P. Hannay Philomela the Nightingale in Nightingale 47 Her eyes did soak The parchèd cloak Which Tellus then had on, The grass out sprung From clay was clung, At fall of Phaeton. 1664 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Phancies v. 272 Their Hair, their Face, their Hands, tore, scratch'd, & wrung, And from their Eyes Fountains of Tears out-sprung. c1702 Cyrus Gate 55 Thy little Lambs, from thy own Life out-sprung, Slaughter'd or torn, the Bears and Wolves among. a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 378 As if there was not Monkery enough..Monks of Umbrosa Vallis now out Spring Being first hatcht under John Gualbert's wing. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna v. vi. 96 From every tent..Our bands outsprung and seized their arms. 1881 K. S. MacLean Coming of Princess 132 For you each steadfast blade out-sprang! 1915 J. Rhoades Words by Wayside 77 I saw where singly daring Her petals to disclose, (For she had slept all summer) outsprang the Christmas Rose. 1961 E. Hedges & L. H. Sullivan Democracy: Man-search iii. iv. 193 Then outsprang brute force. The massacres began; they continued long. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > be descended [verb (intransitive)] comeOE springa1200 ofspringc1300 to be descended (from, of)1399 to run of ——?a1400 descenda1413 proceed?a1439 issuea1450 to come downc1450 outspringa1547 decline1598 a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) iv. sig. Eii There comen is to Tyrians court Aeneas one outsprong of Troyan blood. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 110 Flurished, and sumtyme outsprang frome thir generatiouns..mony men excellent in the commendatione and gude reporte of leirning & virtue. 1875 W. Morris tr. Virgil Æneids v. 299 Salius and Patron next; the one of Acarnanian place, the other from Arcadian blood of Tegesea outsprung. 2. transitive. To spring out of; to spring beyond or further than. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > cause to jump [verb (transitive)] > leap or spring beyond outspring?a1425 outleap1594 outbound1895 ?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) 22249 (MED) Þe harnes out sprange þe harnepan. ?a1610 A. Montgomerie Poems (1887) xliv. 111 Let Mercure language to me len..for to outspring the spheirs. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 402 A..second Brother liued, whose ill out-sprung..the elder. 1993 Quarry Mag. June 124 The young give fragrance to our days, not flower–frail but more like the wind thick with gazelles, smooth bellies outspringing time's jaws. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1538v.?a1200 |
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