单词 | overfreeze |
释义 | † overfreezev. Obsolete. transitive. To freeze over the whole surface or from one side to another. Also figurative. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) iv. xi. 110 Þa wæs Donua seo ea [swa] swiþe oferfroren þæt hie getruwedon þæt hie ofer þæm ise faran mehten. OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 18 Þeah man asette twegen fætels full ealað oððe wæteres, hy gedoð þæt oþer bið oferfroren, sam hit sy sumor, sam winter. a1500 St. Dorothy (Trin. Dublin) in R. Hamer & V. Russell Suppl. Lives ‘Gilte Legende’ (2000) 249 In the moneth of February in so grete colde and froste whyche at that tyme had ouerfrozen the erthe. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxxiii. f. clv The Ryuer of Thamys was so strongly ouerfrorne, yt horse & carte passed ouer vpon ye Ice. 1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 78 At Cacan, Riuers ouerfrosen in China. 1622 G. de Malynes Maintenance of Free Trade ii. 40 The neglect wherof sheweth that our hearts are ouerfrozen with the Ice of vncharitablenesse. 1654 J. Trapp Comm. Job xxxviii. 30 Yea, some seas are over-frozen..in the Northern part of the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < v.eOE |
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