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单词 scuse
释义

scusen.

Forms: Also 1500s skuse, 1600s schuce.
Etymology: Shortened < excuse n.
Obsolete.
= excuse n.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > [noun]
assoin1297
excusationc1380
pleaa1382
excusement1393
sunyiea1400
chose15..
excusec1500
allegation?1510
scuse1523
subterfuge1581
apology1598
alibi1857
out1919
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclxiii. 52 So the knight coude make no scuse.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) v. ii. sig. H.iij Better (they say) a badde scuse, than none.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. B3v Tis as hard to finde a Hare without a Muse, as a woman without a scuse.
1654 Trag. Alphonsus iii. 35 If all be well with us, that schuce shall serve.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

scusev.

Brit. /skjuːz/, U.S. /skjuz/
Forms: Also 1500s scowse, skewse, skuse, 1800s– 'scuse.
Etymology: Shortened < excuse v.
transitive. = excuse v. Now chiefly in representations of colloquial speech, esp. in form 'scuse.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > excuse (a person or fault) [verb (transitive)]
assoin?c1225
excusea1250
scusea1492
planea1513
salve1628
extenuate1741
palliate1862
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. clxxxvi/2 They that had done it scused them.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 577/2 To skewse hym and keepe hym from beatynge.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 70 He wolde have gevyne moch to a be scowsyd.
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne v. 213 Ile you to Captaine skuse.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 250 Would to heauen, that all the abiect blood, In all your veines, had Hector scusde.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. ix. 245 The gentleman will 'scuse me.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xii. 116 'Scuse me, Lawyer Lightwood, it's a part of the truth.
1887 T. E. Brown Doctor & Other Poems 22 'Scuse me, your honour.
1902 R. Kipling Just So Stories 66'Scuse me,’ said the Elephant's Child most politely, ‘but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?’
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 404 All poppycock, you'll scuse me saying.
1971 G. Sims Deadhand i. iv. 46 Scuse fingers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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