单词 | palish |
释义 | palishadj. Somewhat pale. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > pale blackeOE blokec1200 blakec1275 fadec1290 bleykea1300 palisha1398 wanned1494 ashy?1541 wearish-coloured1548 wanny1555 wheyish1560 bleak1566 paly1568 ghastly1574 blankish1580 sick1599 palled1601 ashied1613 lurid1656 lunar1742 wax-like1748 ashen1808 unbrightened1827 waxy1835 peely-wally1895 waxen-hued1916 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 308 Watry colour and mylky colour and karopos..is whitissh or pallissh [L. albidus vel subpallidus]. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 104 (MED) Wasche þe sore wiþ a good scharpe lee, and ȝif it be a canker, it is palischer & fouler þen it was. a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 95 (MED) Whos eyen be grete he is..envious, inobedient, and namly yf þei be palissh. 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 34v When nature is so stronge, to caste it forthe with a redde colour, palishe, or yellowishe. 1595 R. Barnfield Cassandra l. 128 in Cynthia Shame did adde A crimson tincture to her palish hew. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. x. 402 Palish and wanne as a sicke man. 1667 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities (ed. 2) 249 One little Masse or Bead of corporal or yellow (though perhaps somewhat palish) Gold. 1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 416 Its flowers white above, and underneath of a palish green. 1753 O. Goldsmith Let. in Wks. (1881) IV. 475 Her face has a palish cast too much on the delicate order. 1796 P. Hoare Lock & Key ii. iv. 40 She's a little tired with a long walk she has been taking in the fields..and looks a little palish. 1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 13 Now, a palish brown, they are smoky topazes. 1921 E. M. Forster Let. 4 June in Hill of Devi (1953) 91 I wore a long dressing gown of palish purple spattered with gold flowers. 1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xvii. 204 She had worn a palish coat and hat..and black slippers. 1996 J. Lanchester Debt to Pleasure (1997) 68 She leaned forward and looked up sidelong at me through a fine curtain of wind-mussed, palish hair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † palishv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To make pale. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > lose colour [verb (transitive)] > make pale pale?a1425 palish1484 appalea1500 pall1539 pallify1576 empale1604 sickly1604 bepale1640 impallid1661 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) cxix. 160 The cold was..grete, the whiche made her black & palysshed her colour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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