| 单词 | prick of time |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprick of time b. An instant of time (also prick of time); a moment; = point n.1 6b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant hand-whileOE prinkOE start-while?c1225 twinkling1303 rese?c1335 prick1340 momenta1382 pointa1382 minutea1393 instant1398 braida1400 siquarea1400 twink14.. whip?c1450 movement1490 punct1513 pissing whilea1556 trice1579 turning of a hand1579 wink1585 twinklec1592 semiquaver1602 punto1616 punctilio of time1620 punctum1620 breathing1625 instance1631 tantillation1651 rapc1700 crack1725 turning of a straw1755 pig's whisper1780 jiffy1785 less than no time1788 jiff1797 blinka1813 gliffy1820 handclap1822 glimpsea1824 eyewink1836 thought1836 eye-blink1838 semibreve1845 pop1847 two shakes of a lamb's taila1855 pig's whistle1859 time point1867 New York minute1870 tick1879 mo?1896 second1897 styme1897 split-second1912 split minute1931 no-time1942 sec.1956 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 71 (MED) Al oure lyf nes naȝt bote a lyte prikke nou we byeþ ine zorȝe wyþ-oute ende. c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 8 (MED) Eche soule is made in þe body in the same poynt and pricke of tyme in whiche it is couplid and joinyd to þe body. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxxiiii That dureth but a pricke, in respecte of the other. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. viii. sig. E.vi/1 They that shall be then liuing..shall in a very prick of time be changed. a1599 R. Scot Scot's Discov. Witchcraft (1651) x. 362 The Thomists also say it continued but one instant or prick of time; for they tarried but two instants in all, even from their creation to their expulsion. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd i. 8 What a lothsome thing is it for a man to haue to doe with them any longer, then in that short pricke of time that hee holds them in his armes. < as lemmas |
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