单词 | beyond all telling |
释义 | > as lemmasbeyond all telling a. The action or fact of relating, imparting, or saying something; narration, relation; conversation, talk (now English regional). Also: the capacity to tell something (chiefly in references to something impossible to describe, as beyond all telling, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] spellc888 talec1000 telling?c1225 relationc1390 fablec1400 collationc1430 deliverance1431 narrationc1449 exposition1460 recounting1485 deducing1530 recital1565 delivery1592 reporting1603 retailing1609 recountmenta1616 narrative1748 narrating1802 deducement1820 recountal1825 retailment1832 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 131 Ȝef ani þach swa do & ha beo bittere his untoȝene word oðer his fol dede ha ach to treoden ham anan richt wið unwurðe tellunge. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. ii. 25 The tellyngis of stories [L. narrationes historiarum]. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 506 So wolde [I] my wordes plie, That mihten Wraththe and Cheste avale With tellinge of my softe tale. a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 29163 If þe prest..Be vnwise in his gifing, Or els þe synful in his telling. 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. f. xcii/1 How be yt vppon the tellynge of a tale often tyme happeth, that [etc.]. 1595 H. Chettle Piers Plainnes Prentiship 5 It were a story to tell, and were it worth the telling I would describe it in a Story. 1624 Trag. Nero iii. sig. D3v Lady, I was too much in seeing vext, Let it not be redoubled with the telling. 1694 J. Crown Married Beau v. 58 Lio. My Lady was in a wonderful Rage, when I told Her how I had serv'd her. Pol. Well, that I might have guess'd, without your telling. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *Aijv The Form which he has given to the Telling, makes the Tale his own. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 117 The theatres here are beautiful beyond all telling. 1856 Crayon Aug. 236/1 The genuine offspring of your own unartistic calling..may help him beyond human telling. 1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 785/1 The aesthetic elect frown on the telling of a story in picture, poem, or novel. 1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. VI. 59 Telling,..talk, conversation. 1919 A. Merritt Moon Pool xxvii. 335 Weird, weird beyond all telling was that exquisite head and bust floating there in air. 1947 Jrnl. Afr. Stud. 6 21/1 The telling of riddles still plays an important part in Mwera social or family life. 1977 B. Babcock in R. Bauman Verbal Art as Performance vii. 62 That type of folklore that has to do with the telling of tales. 2013 New Yorker 12 Aug. 93/1 Such is the force and the impatience of his telling..that we don't have time to lean back and ruminate on the wizardish feats of C.G.I. < as lemmas |
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