单词 | retrick |
释义 | retrickv. 1. transitive. to retrick one's beams: to recover mentally or physically from a setback; to rally one's strength or spirits; to refocus. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > make cheerful [verb (transitive)] > recover good spirits revive1442 reprise1481 to retrick one's beams1856 1856 Dublin Univ. Mag. July 37/2 After each defeat Octavius was allowed to ‘Retrick his beams’, [etc.]. 1864 A. Trollope Small House at Allington II. iii. 28 We have retricked our beams in our own ways, and our lives have not been desolate. 1886 L. Berens Woman with Past I. 115 I suppose it is useless to say 'Come home and retrick your beams.' I cannot reconcile myself to the notion of your slaving in exile. 1908 Life 9 Apr. 380 The repeated intention of Madame Anna Gould to retrick her matrimonial beams. 2005 M. A. Doody in C. Alexander & J. McMaster Child Writer from Austen to Woolf 118 In order to get published, she had to retrick her beams, redefine herself as a ‘serious’ novelist. 2. transitive. To trick again (in various senses); to readjust; (esp. poetic) (of the sun or the moon) to rearrange or remuster (its rays). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > bring into conformity > adjust to a standard or purpose > again redispose1635 readjusta1678 retrick1874 1874 J. M. Marshall tr. Horace Wks. I. 216/1 The moon can retrick her waning beams. 1882 Cent. Mag. Dec. 297 The sun retricks his beams. It is an autumn that of spring-time dreams. 1893 Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 1892–3 17 297 If this shield has not been retricked at some unknown time, this is a third variation of the abbey arms. 1933 D. Sargent T. More ii. 28 It was sickening to have him tricked, and then retricked into confessing his crimes. 1982 Newsweek (Nexis) 1 Feb. He was..retricking his political sails to set a new course that would meet the dreadful challenge to decency and peace and freedom from Adolf Hitler. 1998 C. C. Meinwald in J. Gentzler Method in Anc. Philos. (2001) 172 For Plato to tell us this is to do little more than reprise a familiar point..retricked with Pythagorean terminology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1856 |
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