单词 | resorting |
释义 | resortingn.1 1. The action or fact of frequenting, visiting, or repairing (to a place); an instance of this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] > resorting or repairing to a place repair?a1400 resortc1425 resorting?a1439 repairing1632 gang1645 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > haunting or resorting > [noun] sokenc1000 hauntc1330 hauntingc1400 resortc1425 resorting?a1439 recoursea1456 repairc1480 frequentinga1555 frequentation1585 frequentance1593 frequent1631 frequency1642 frequentage1814 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. 3951 (MED) The peeple was ful glad and liht..At my resortyng [Fr. Quant je vins ou pays de Micenes je fu receu de par les habitans en grant joye et leesse]. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos lxv. 164 Ascanyus buylded firste the towne or cyte of Albe in lombardye. And there was his resortynge [Fr. & la fut son repaire]. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 262/1 Resortyng to, actraict, recours. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 62 Let the people, and especially women, giue eare to Pagan Ouid,..speaking of those common resortings vnto Playes. 1606 in J. Stuart Sel. Rec. Kirk Aberdeen (1846) 52 Convenit befoir the sessioun for na resorting to the sermones on the Saboth day. 1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems sig. F We'l in our own faces our colours display, And hallow our yearly resorting. 1725 L. Theobald Harlequin Sorcerer i. 3 Here each Night, at our Resorting, We redouble Ev'ry Trouble, Through the Land. 1780 Protestant Packet 13 Oct. 135 They pass one act, forbidding preaching or resorting to house or field conventicles. 1804 Earl of Lauderdale Inq. Nature & Origin Public Wealth v. 357 The advantages..are at once suggested, by resorting to the drawing-rooms. 1842 Rep. Supreme Courts Scotl. 14 613/2 Putting all her detached hauntings and resortings there together, they do not amount to three years of sufficient continuity. 1907 M. R. James in A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. (1908) I. v. 71 The fashion of resorting to Ireland for instruction was very prevalent among English students. 2. Recourse to a particular expedient or measure; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [noun] recourse?c1425 resort?a1439 recurrence1697 resource1720 resorting1778 1778 Encycl. Brit. II. 423/2 The time of resorting to this expedient is, when the males are about to originate or actually exist. 1833 Gentleman's Mag. June 533/2 A resorting to the principle of expediency. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Aug. 7/1 There has been no rough horse~play, and no resortings to election irregularities. 1905 Alumni Reg. (University of Pennsylvania) May 386/1 There is a certain poverty of poetical vocabulary, a resorting to the phrases stereotyped by long use in English poetry. 1961 New Statesman 21 July 73/2 Either side..may risk resorting to a physical gesture. 1994 W. J. Morgan Leftist Theories of Sport ii. 82 We should be leery of any such resorting to sport as a legitimation device for society. Compounds resorting place n. now rare = resort n. 4c. ΚΠ 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. iv. clxx. f. cxcix/1 A stronge fortresse and a resortynge place [Fr. retour] for theues. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. iv Howe mete or howe redy (at hande) a resortynge place,..haue I gotten me. 1788 M. W. Sacred Outcry i. vii. 71 Egypt..was the great Seat of Learning, and resorting Place of the ablest Philosophers. 1833 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. Feb. 230/1 Churchwardens and sidesmen..patrol the streets, avenues, and resorting places for gamblers. 1906 Pacific Monthly Jan. 25/1 These great hotels did not make the state the famous resorting place that it is. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : re-sortingn.2 < n.1?a1439 see also |
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