单词 | bathe |
释义 | bathen. An act of bathing (in the intransitive sense of bathe). Of modern origin, and used instead of bath n.1 1, to exclude the suggestion of other senses. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > an act of bathing bain1484 dip1598 balneum1652 tub1776 bathe1827 shower1836 bogy1849 1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 230 A two hours' walk, and a bathe in the Greta. 1861 Sat. Rev. 30 Nov. 565 A mountain stream in which the happy party took every day their morning bathe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bathev. I. transitive. (Now mostly reflexive or passive.) 1. To immerse, as in a bath: a. literal. To immerse (the body, or any part of it) in water or other liquid, for the sake of some effect (e.g. health, warmth, cleansing) promoted by the action of the liquid. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash oneself [verb (reflexive)] > bathe washa1382 bathec1400 bain1577 bath1876 a1200 Moral Ode 245 Þer is bernunde pich hore saule to baþien inne. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. ix. 195 The moder batheth the chylde. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. x. 112 Gabrielles welle, where our Lord was wont to bathe him. 1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xv. 5 [He] shall wash his clothes, and bathe himselfe in water. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 437 Others on Silver Lakes and Rivers Bath'd Thir downie Brest. View more context for this quotation 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 205 He has the convenience of sometimes bathing himself. b. To immerse in other elements or substances, e.g. sand, fire. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > in a surrounding medium plungec1380 bathec1386 bay1590 immerse1695 steep1708 c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 447 Faire in the sond, to bathe hir merily, Lith Pertelot..Agayn the sonne. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion (frontispiece) The Norman Leopards bath'd in Gules. 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. i. 16 The later martyr bathes his fingers in the flames. c. To plunge, or dip, without reference to the action of the liquid. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > immerse or dip [verb (transitive)] bebatheOE dipc1000 plungec1380 wash1398 bathec1400 embathe1593 taint1594 immerse1685 c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 211 [Jonah says] Berez me to þe borde, & baþeþes me þer-oute. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 55 In flud Trinacrian thy great oars must deeplye be bathed. 2. To apply water or other liquid to anything so as to wet it all over, or moisten it copiously; to lave, perfuse, suffuse, wet, moisten: a. literally. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] weta950 bathec1000 drenchc1230 blotenc1325 danka1350 anointa1375 moista1382 beshed1382 moil?a1425 madefy?1440 arrouse1480 moisturea1500 humect1531 intinct1547 moisten1559 rinse1579 inebriate1610 irrigate1615 slocken1627 irriguate1632 humectate1640 madidate1656 slake1810 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash oneself [verb (intransitive)] > bathe bathec1000 washa1382 bain1483 lave1701 tub1867 bogy1893 tosh1905 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash one's body or part of it [verb (transitive)] > bathe bathec1000 bain1398 embain1593 tub1612 bath1660 c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 206 Ðonne is sio beðianne mid hatan wætre. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2447 First .ix. nigt de liches beðen And smeren. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBBviiv We come to ye gates..all bathed in rayne & frosen with yce. 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. ii. 169 Till we haue..bath'd thy growing with our heated blouds. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 6 To bath the place grieved..for the Inflammation. 1877 Chavasse Adv. to Mother §290 Well bathe the eye with vinegar and water. b. said of the action of a river or the sea upon the adjacent banks or land. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > [verb (transitive)] > surround or touch (of water) washc1275 watera1450 bathe1591 1591 E. Spenser tr. J. du Bellay Visions in Complaints ix A water, whose out gushing flood Ran bathing all the creakie shore aflot. 1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 52 The River which passes under it bathes a meadow. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xix. 537 The river bathed the foot of the walls. 1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Politics 85 Groups of islands..bathed by the same oceans. c. said of the action of tears, perspiration, or any secretion, in flowing over and wetting the body or its parts. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [verb (intransitive)] > flow bathe1578 flowa1616 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [verb (transitive)] exhale1597 bathe1720 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 32 His eyes toward heaven, and his face bathed with teares. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad (new ed.) VI. xxiii. 53 Tears bathe their arms, and tears the sands bedew. 1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 166 The laborer, bathed in sweat, drops the scythe. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 58 Bathing in tears..thousands of worthy men and worthy families. View more context for this quotation 1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants vi. 87 When bathed in the secretion. d. (Inverted construction.) ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 101 Had I this cheeke To bathe my lips vpon. View more context for this quotation 3. The phrase ‘ to bathe in blood’ includes and often blends 1 and 2, and is generally used figuratively to express the great quantity of blood shed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [verb (transitive)] to bathe in bloodc1300 murderc1325 to make larder ofa1330 spend1481 to lick upa1500 slaught1535 butcher1562 wipe1577 slaughter1586 massacre1588 dispeople1596 shamble1601 depeople?1611 mow1615 internecate1623 dislaughter1661 mop1899 pogrom1915 decimate1944 overkill1946 the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [verb (intransitive)] > suffer slaughter to bathe in blooda1592 c1300 K. Alis. 2708 Mony pencel god, Quyk, y-bathed in heorte blod. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3100 Ro[land] ..baþede is swerd in hure blod. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1248 Þay..Baþed barnes in blod & her brayn spylled. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. Ev I will bathe My poinard in the bosome of an earle. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 107 Let vs bathe our hands in Cæsars blood Vp to the Elbowes. View more context for this quotation a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) v. ii. 306 A tyrant which took pleasure in bathing himselfe in humane blood. 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. xvi. 377 His plan..would have bathed Sparta in blood. 4. a. To suffuse, envelope, or encompass, like the air or the sunshine. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium belapc1175 take?a1300 wrapa1382 environa1393 enumberc1400 involvea1420 enfoldc1425 bewrapa1430 mantlec1450 envelop1474 enwrap1545 imply1590 circumvolve1607 circumfuse1608 becloaka1618 swathe1624 gird1645 wrap1656 velope1722 steep1798 bathe1816 cloak1818 impall1852 atmosphere1881 kirtle1888 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. ii. 136 A stream of sunshine bathing The bright moss-roses. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. xiii. 293 Heavenly glory seemed to bathe her from head to foot. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 272 The Bay of Baffin,..bathed in foggy darkness. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 88 An ocean of air bathing the entire earth. b. said of mental influences. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium > of conditions or influences wrapa1382 wrapa1382 involve1382 bathea1529 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiv Bathyd with blysse embracyd with comforte. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. lxiii. A And thus haue I troden downe the people in my wrath, and bathed them in my displeasure. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 3 The babe..Lies bathed in joy. II. intransitive (from reflexive use of 1.) 5. a. literal. To take a bath, to plunge or immerse oneself in water or other liquid, so as to enjoy its influence; in earlier usage also, to lie or remain so immersed, to bask. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > immerse or dip [verb (intransitive)] bathec1200 washa1382 dipa1387 bask1393 swelter1595 laver1607 dap1886 c1200 Moral Ode (245) in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 29 Pich þat eure wealð · þat sculle baþien inne þo þe ladde vuel lif. c1275 Death in Old Eng. Misc. 180 In ful a bitter bað bathien ich schal naked. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xxiv. 73 They that bathen temperatly in hote water. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 660 Vex'd Scylla bathing in the Sea. View more context for this quotation 1765 W. Cowper Let. 24 June (1979) I. 95 It is a noble Stream to bath in. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. v. 104 The princess came down..to bathe in the sacred river. b. in various transferred and figurative senses: see the transitive uses above, 3-4. ΚΠ a1556 Ld. Vaux in R. Edwards Paradyse Daynty Deuises (1576) sig. Kiiii v The moste of all doeth bathe in blisse. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. G5v Now lie the Christians bathing in their bloods. 1656 J. Trapp Comm. Mark i. 35 Shall Christians be bathing in their beds on their Lord's day? c1720 S. Wesley Eupolis 40 The feathered souls, that swim the air, And bathe in liquid ether there. 1855 F. W. Faber Growth in Holiness (ed. 2) xi. 169 Youth..bathing in devotional sweetness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1827v.c1000 |
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