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单词 be-east
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be-eastadv.prep.

/biːˈiːst/
Forms: In Old English be éastan.
Etymology: Old English be éastan ‘on the east,’ (be ‘by, about,’ éastan ‘from the east,’ < éast ‘east’); used adverbially, and also with following dative. In later times only in Scots.
A. adv.
Towards the east, eastwards. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1106 On þa niht..wæron gesewen twegen monan on þære heofonan toforan þam dæge oðer be eastan, & se oðer be westan.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 172 Bi hald seide he bi easten.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Langtoft (1725) 5 Grete taliage laid he þeron bi Esten.
B. prep.
East of. (Originally adverbial phr.)
ΚΠ
894 Anglo-Saxon Chron. Of ælcre byrig be eastan Pendredan . ge be westan Seal wuda ge be eastan.
eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 12 Wið norþan Donua æwielme & be eastan Rine sindon Eastfrancna [read Eastfrancan].
1559–66 in Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) 78 Twoe mile be-east the said towne.
1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 637 Lodge them be-east the town.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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