单词 | perishment |
释义 | perishmentn. 1. Destruction, damage, loss; downfall.Apparently obsolete in 17th–18th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] burstc1000 harmOE scatheOE teenOE evil healc1175 waningc1175 hurt?c1225 quede?c1225 balec1275 damage1300 follyc1300 grill13.. ungain13.. torferc1325 eviltyc1330 wem1338 impairment1340 marring1357 unhend1377 sorrowc1380 pairingc1384 pairmentc1384 mischiefc1385 offencec1385 appairment1388 hindering1390 noyinga1398 bresta1400 envya1400 wemminga1400 gremec1400 wilc1400 blemishing1413 lesion?a1425 nocument?a1425 injuryc1430 mischieving1432 hindrance1436 detrimenta1440 ill1470 untroth1470 diversity1484 remordc1485 unhappinessc1485 grudge1491 wriguldy-wrag?1520 danger1530 dishort1535 perishment1540 wreaka1542 emperishment1545 impeachment1548 indemnity1556 impair1568 spoil1572 impeach1575 interestc1575 emblemishing1583 mishap1587 endamagement1593 blemishment1596 mischievance1600 damnificationa1631 oblesion1656 mishanter1754 vitiation1802 mar1876 jeel1887 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] harmOE tinsela1340 damagec1374 offensiona1382 pairmentc1384 wrongc1384 offencec1385 wrackc1407 lesion?a1425 ruin1467 prejudicec1485 domager1502 qualm1513 jacture1515 imblemishment1529 perishment1540 impeachment1548 blame1549 dommagie1556 execution1581 damagement1603 sufferancea1616 stroy1682 murder1809 punishment1839 1540 C. Philpot Let. 20 Apr. in State Papers Hen. VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/159) f. 127 I am constrayned..to ley my weryng rayment vnto gage, whiche wylbe a gret peryshement of my honeste yf my fryndes loke not vpon me in hast. a1555 H. Latimer Let. 15 July in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1351/2 Iustices that be to much naturall to their owne perishment both body and soule. 1579 A. Munday Mirrour Mutabilitie i. vii sig. Divv But God though I offended had, would not my perishment. 1824 Times 18 Feb. 3/4 Now the case which had been cited from Siderfin related to a total loss and perishment of the vessel. 1877 Amer. Naturalist 11 225 These [natural] resources must have been brought into play by experience; and their cost was surely the premature perishment of many of the kind. 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 Dec. d1 Dark broodings about the perishment of civilization. 2001 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 15 Sept. 2 I missed out on Big Brother,..the bonfire of the QCs,..and the perishment of One.Tel. 2. English regional (northern) and Scottish. A severe cold; the state of being very cold; extreme discomfort due to cold. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > low body temperature > perishing with cold perishment1823 starvation1830 1823 T. Bewick Mem. (1975) ix. 86 Before she waded through it, she got very wet & a perishment of cold. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 130 A Perishment, a severe cold. 1899 Shetland News 11 Feb. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 474/1 A'm shure der nane furt wi' sic a night o' perishment waitin' fer me. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 94 It's nae wooner at ye've getten a perishment o' cowd. 1933 H. Orton Phonol. S. Durham Dial. i. 26 (Pærišmənt) in (pærišmənt ə kād), starvation by cold (lit. ‘perishment of cold’). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1540 |
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