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单词 sent
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sentn.

Forms: Also Middle English sente.
Etymology: Aphetic < assent n.
Obsolete.
= assent n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > assent > [noun]
ensent1297
senta1375
accorda1393
assent?c1550
belief1566
subscription1580
accessiona1617
condescent1633
condescension1648
accessariness1654
homologation1656
assention1660
unity1760
assentment1818
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1983 Þat þemperour ne schuld souche þa ȝhe at sent were.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 58 Be ye sent of alle ye breyeren and systers of yis gilde.
a1450 Le Morte Arth. 2278 Through the sente of All by-dene Ganne the kynge A lettre make.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

sentadj.

Brit. /sɛnt/, U.S. /sɛnt/
Etymology: past participle of send v.1
a. In senses of the verb. Also in combination as heaven-sent adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > transference > sending > [adjective]
sent1483
missive1628
society > travel > transport > [adjective] > sent
sent1483
1483 Cath. Angl. 330/1 Sent, missus, destinatus.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 852 The Sender not the sent . View more context for this quotation
1825 H. C. Robinson Diary Dec. (1967) 86 Irving. He is a highly gifted man; he is a sent man, but they who are sent sometimes go further than they ought.
b. slang. (See quot. 1940.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [adjective] > physically stupefied
amazedOE
astoundc1315
stonieda1340
dareda1400
dazedc1400
stupefact?a1425
adasedc1450
dolda1500
dazinga1533
dazzling1571
stupid1571
fordulled1591
entranced1594
torpid1656
damp1667
stuporous1712
rammista1838
stuporose1879
dazy1880
sent1940
like a stunned mullet1953
1940 Amer. Speech Oct. 337/1 To be sent, to be completely satisfied and in a stupor from the drug.
1951 Manch. Guardian 21 June 5/1 The slang of jazz addicts, which is full of phrases like ‘hepsters’, getting ‘high’, being ‘sent’ and other euphemisms for the delirium induced by improvised solos on the cornet and slide trombone.
1958 Spectator 25 July 133/3 The girls wore thick eye-makeup and ‘sent’ expressions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sentv.

Etymology: Aphetic < assent v.
Obsolete.
intransitive. = assent v.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > assent > [verb (intransitive)]
ensentc1290
accordc1300
to say yesa1400
senta1400
to say yeac1425
condescend1477
subscribe1531
accede1534
to take a person at his (also her) word1535
homologatea1649
to close with1654
to set one's seal1659
yes1820
yea-say1876
a1400 Gosp. Nicod. (Add. MS.) 512 To þaire consayle..We will noȝt sent.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 5336 Þai prayde þair horse moght þar a byde; Þe gude wyf sent þar to.
c1650 (a1500) Eger & Grime (Percy) (1933) 182 They Ladye granted her good will, her father sented there soone till.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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