单词 | skyey |
释义 | skyeyadj. 1. a. Of, relating to, located in, or emanating from the sky. Also figurative: lofty. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective] heavenisheOE heavenlyOE celestialc1400 celestinec1430 supernal?1504 celical1521 elemental1527 ethereal1530 celest1535 impyre1554 skyey1587 vaultedc1590 firmamental1600 empyreal1605 superior1632 firmamentary1633 ethereous1667 skied1789 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [adjective] > great or considerable higheOE steepOE heaven-highOE highlyOE brentc1400 hightc1480 hichty1513 procere1542 tall1548 spiringa1552 towereda1552 tower-like1552 upstretched1563 airy1565 excelse1569 haughty1570 topless1589 lofty1590 procerous1599 kiss-sky1603 skyish1604 topful?1611 aspiringc1620 sky-high1622 hiddy1632 tiptoed1632 sublime1635 towering1638 soaring1687 mountain high1693 clamberinga1717 skied1730 towery1731 pyramidic1740 skyey1750 skyward1792 skyscraping1797 exulting1798 high-reaching1827 steepling1892 high-rise1964 hi1972 1587 H. Parry tr. Z. Ursinus Summe of Christian Relig. ii. 580 The Skieye region [L. Regionem ætheream], and celestiall Spheres. 1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 20 Phaeton in his skyey carte. a1651 C. Love Heavens Glory (1653) 101 Secondly, there is an Etherean or Skiey heaven. 1750 M. Browne Sunday Thoughts: Pt. II. 32 At Ease they [sc. rooks] dwell:..Hous'd in their skiey chambers, rock'd by winds. 1761 Moral & Descriptive Epist. 29 The author hath endeavoured to express the uneasiness of the body under a skyey depression, in the languor of these lines. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 106 The skiey deluge, and white lightning's glare. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 186 No charm Could lift Endymion's head, or he had view'd A skyey mask. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. xiii. 234 Beside him sat Marty, also straining her eyes towards the skyey field of his operations. 1931 E. Sutton tr. W. Eidlitz Zodiak xi. 282 The working of the Divine power whose skyey domes they tore down with such zeal and such contempt. 2003 Financial Times 31 July 13/2 The sheer skiey heights of Schwarzenegger's comic iconhood. b. skyey influence(s): influence(s) of the skies or heavens. Now rare.Usually with reference or allusion to Shakespeare's use in quot. a1616. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > atmospheric agencies or powers elements1555 skyey influence(s)a1616 blas1662 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 9 A breath thou art, Seruile to all the skyie-influences . View more context for this quotation 1757 J. G. Cooper Epist. Aristippus ii. 26 The human Sense Is subjected to Smiles, or Tears, To swelling Pride, or trembling Fears, ‘By ev'ry skyey Influence.’ 1777 S. J. Pratt Trav. for Heart I. 2 The irregularity and skiey influences of this country..the damps and dews, drizzlings and drippings of this realm of vapours, will not do for thee. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram II. iii. x. 69 The skiey influences seem to tincture the animal life with their own..spirit of change. 1851 Illustr. London News 18 Oct. 491/3 The skiey influences were decidedly sympathetic. 1882 C. F. Keary Outl. Primitive Belief 128 Almost all the Vedic hymns are concerned with the skyey influences. 1909 Cook County (Arlington Heights, Illinois) Herald 22 Oct. ‘Horrid weather for Hope.’ she thought; ‘impossible for nerves to get right under such skyey influence’. 1984 Prose Stud. 7 31 A subconscious desire to be subject not servile to Shakespeare's skyey influence. 2. Resembling the colour of a clear daytime sky; azure; light blue. Also: designating such a colour.Recorded earliest in skyey-tinctured at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > sky blue azured1490 azure?a1513 sky-coloured1567 ceruleous?1578 sky colour1581 cerule1591 sky-like1594 ceruleal1634 azurne1637 cerulous1651 lazure1671 cerulean1677 sky blue1703 skyey1816 azure-blue1859 cerulescent1880 azurean1882 1778 R. Cumberland Battle of Hastings v. 80 Tiptoe she stands in skiey-tinctur'd stole. 1797 Monthly Mag. July 52/1 The yellow lawn, the meadow green,..The skyey lake, the mountain blue. 1816 R. Southey Lay of Laureate 52 A virgin clad in skiey blue. 1825 D. M. Moir Legend Genevieve with Other Poems 136 Skiey robes, The tincture of the young Year's finest blue. 1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 392/1 The soft skyey tone of the turquoise. 1962 S. Plath Jrnl. (2000) 639 Mr. Bateman was very stiff and dapper. A skyey blue chiffon neckerchief, cinnamon-colored check tweeds. 1997 E. Hand Glimmering iii. xiv. 323 Her eyes were a clear skyey blue. Compounds Chiefly poetic or literary. Parasynthetic (in sense 2), as skyey-hued, skyey-tinctured, etc. ΚΠ 1778 R. Cumberland Battle of Hastings v. 80 Tiptoe she stands in skiey-tinctur'd stole. 1836 Metrop. Mag. Feb. 79/2 Or is't where leaps and flashes the free stream, Or in the rainbow's skiey-tinctured beam. 1896 Ohio Educ. Monthly Dec. 256/2 Where are the blue-birds? But one of these skyey colored fellows has greeted me this spring. 1903 C. G. Whiting Walks in New Eng. 23 It is scorn this gay, skyey-tinted rascal expresses. 1906 R. Cariveau Unseen Save of Solitude 40 But more I love the darling wilding flower, The Crocus, sweet misnomer, skyey-hued. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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