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单词 poustie
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poustien.

Brit. /ˈpuːsti/, /ˈpaʊsti/, U.S. /ˈpusti/, /ˈpaʊsti/, Scottish English /ˈpustɪ/, /ˈpʌʊstɪ/, Irish English /ˈpuːsti/, /ˈpaʊsti/
Forms: Middle English pauste (chiefly northern), Middle English pausti (northern), Middle English pausty (northern), Middle English pawste (northern), Middle English poeste, Middle English pooste, Middle English poostye, Middle English poste, Middle English postee, Middle English postey, Middle English pouste, Middle English poustee, Middle English poustie, Middle English pousty, Middle English povste, Middle English poweste, Middle English powste, Middle English powstee, Middle English puste, Middle English–1500s postie, Middle English (in a late copy)–1500s posty, Middle English–1500s postye; Scottish pre-1700 pausty, pre-1700 poistee, pre-1700 poistie, pre-1700 poste, pre-1700 poweste, pre-1700 powste, pre-1700 powstie, pre-1700 1700s pouste, pre-1700 1800s– poustie; Irish English 1700s–1800s poustee, 1900s– poustie.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pousté.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pousté, Anglo-Norman and Old French poesté, poosté, posté (c1000as podestad ) < classical Latin potestāt- , potestās power, authority (see potestas n.).
Now Scottish and Irish English.
Power; spiritual power; might; authority. See also liege poustie n. in poustie (in quot. a1500): in one's power, possible.In quot. 1877: a force, a body of people.
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i-waldeOE
armOE
craftOE
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poustiea1275
mound?a1300
powerc1300
force1303
mighta1325
wielda1325
mightiheada1382
mightinessc1390
mightheada1400
mightinga1400
puissance1420
mightfulnessa1425
vallente1475
potence1483
state1488
potencya1500
potestation?c1500
potent1512
puissantness1552
sinew1560
puissancy1562
potentness1581
powerableness1591
powerfulnessc1595
potestatea1600
pollency1623
potentiality1627
potentialness1668
poust1827
mana1843
magnum force1977
a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 204 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 68 A maidain hauet us ouercomen; noust nis oure pouste [a1450 Bodl. poste].
c1300 Childhood Jesus (Laud) 309 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 12 (MED) Jesus, fol of pouste, Made þat watur drawe aȝe.
a1350 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Harl.) (1907) 7 (MED) Þe deuel heuede so muche pouste þat alle mosten to helle te.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 26140 To quam vr lauerd has giue[n] poste Bath to bind and also laus þe.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 69 Whan I submysed affryque in to your poeste.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 110 In-to swilk thrillage thaim held he That he ourcome throw his powste.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 610 (MED) Yef it were in poste, he wolde it not haue do for all the reme of grete Breteigne.
a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. D.vii By..all the dedly names Of infernall posty where soules frye and rousty.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Iiii v/1 Postie, potestas atis.
1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall Ded. sig. B2 Statur & strength, so dexterously kythed by a peereles pausty in all campestrial prowes.
1789 C. Vallancey Vocab. Lang. Forth & Bargie in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1788 2 Antiquities 38 T' brek up ee battres h' had na poustee..To break up the goal they had not power.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 147 Her weary knicht's ilk limb and lith Gat tenfauld poustie, pow'r, and pith.
1877 G. MacDonald Marquis of Lossie II. xvii But say 'at ye like, I s' uphaud Ma'colm again' the haill poustie o' ye.
1913 J. Service Memorables Robin Cummell 196 Something cam..and ‘took a' the fushion frae her tongue and a' the poustie frae her arm’.
1961 New Shetlander No. 56. 25 Dey wir never muckle pooster wi him.
2001 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 24 Feb. 16 Tha yairn o twa buiks, an o thir twa heid Ulster-Scotch scrievers an scholars, is tha historie o tha cum bak o Ulster-Scotch poustie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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