单词 | prelibation |
释义 | prelibationn. 1. A tasting beforehand; a foretaste. Chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun] > preview, foretaste arlesc1220 earnestc1225 forelook1357 foresight1422 foretaste1435 earnest pennya1438 before-tasting1526 prelibation1526 tasting1526 promise?1533 say1549 to-looka1572 handsel1573 assay1597 antepast1604 prefruitiona1631 cue1647 pregustation1656 pregustator1670 scene1691 tint1768 outlook1823 fore-view1831 preview1882 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. i iii As prelybacions or foretastynges of that endlesse glorie. 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxvi. 340 A prelibation of glory to come. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 19) 353 The wicked have a prelibation of that darknesse they shall goe unto hereafter. 1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. Pref. sig. B3 And further, it will procure for us..some small prelibation of those heavenly refreshments, which descend but seldom, and then very sparingly, upon men of an ordinary or indifferent holyness. 1745 E. Young Consolation 116 Rich Prelibation of consummate Joy! 1774 M. Scott Female Advocate 5 O Faith, whose sacred transports never cloy, Sweet prelibation of immortal joy! 1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 49 287 That mysterious ante-dawn—that prelibation of the full daylight, which, under the name of the Zodiacal light, perplexes the oriental surveyor of the heavens. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist vii. 415 Their master had been taken from them, a sad prelibation of the deeper agony which His own true disciples would experience. 1912 H. Church Poems 109 The prelibation they have realized..Is taught me through their struggle, is all mine. 1945 Sci. Monthly Feb. 159/2 It is always with a thrill of pleasurable prelibation that we look over a new book by Dr. Beebe. 1997 Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 1861 As a prelibation of things to come we give an outline of the rest of the paper. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of first fruits prelibation1649 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar §1 Offering them [sc. the first-fruits of his blood] to God like the prelibation of a sacrifice. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 68 in Poems Why may we not say..that before the men were refresht by bread and wine, there was an offering or prelibation of them to God? a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) v. 150 Like a stalled ox..that may not taste A flower till it have yielded up its sweets A prelibation to the mower's scythe. 3. An alleged custom permitting a social superior to have sexual intercourse with the wife or daughter of an inferior, esp. immediately before or after her marriage. Chiefly in right of prelibation n. = droit(s) du (or de) seigneur at droit n.1 1b. historical. ΚΠ 1891 C. Letourneau Evol. of Marriage iii. 48 In a French title deed of 1507 we read that the Comte d'Eu has the right of prelibation in the said place when anyone marries. 1892 Littell's Living Age 16 July 171/1 The feudal custom of prelibation was in force; and when the king journeyed through his realm, the wife and daughters of his entertainer were gladly, and as a matter of course, placed at his disposal. 1926 S. Putnam tr. P. Lacroix Hist. Prostitution III. xxxviii. 413 The Prince of Navarre finally married her off and obtained the right of prelibation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526 |
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