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单词 sendle
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sendleadv.

Forms: 1500s sendill, sendyll, sindall, sindill, seindill, seindell, seyndil(l, sendle, seindl, 1500s–1800s seindle, sindle, 1600s–1800s sinle, 1700s sinal, sinile, synle, seenly, 1700s–1800s seenle, senil, seenil, 1800s seinle, sennil, sennel.
Etymology: Metathetic alteration of selden, seldom adv.
Scottish.
= seldom adv. and adj. Also sendle-times = seldom-times.
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the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb]
seldom-whenc888
seldomc897
seld-whenc897
seldoma1000
seldc1000
seldom-timec1386
seld-timec1386
seld-whilea1387
seld-where1390
thinc1405
rare?1440
sendle?a1500
daintilya1513
thinlyc1545
rarely1546
once in a moon1547
out-takingly1549
seldomly1549
for once and away1583
sparingly1590
scarce1596
unfrequently1646
unoften1654
infrequently1673
once in a while1765
sporadically1765
sparselya1871
seldom-while1876
(for) once in a way1891
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1813 in Poems (1981) 70 His pray full sendill tymis will he mis.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xv. 103 It is rycht seyndil sene that he eschapis the deitht.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 485 in Shorter Poems (1967) 38 I knew that wes the court so variabill, Of erdly luf quhilk sendill standis stabill.
1588–9 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. IV. 342 The like barbarous and shamefull crueltie hes sendle bene hard of amangis Christeanis.
1644 R. Baillie Let. 7 June (1841) II. 191 Only the Saturday free [from exercise], and that for Sunday's preaching, when sinle times any of us does vacke.
c1730 A. Ramsay Betty & Kate iv Sindle times they e'er come back.
1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 24 Frail man, alack! but seenil thinks..That [etc.].
1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 8 A gentle horse should be sindle spurr'd.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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