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单词 skyey
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skyeyadj.

Brit. /ˈskʌɪi/, U.S. /ˈskaɪi/
Forms: 1500s skieye, 1500s 1700s– skyey, 1600s skyie, 1600s– skiey.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sky n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < sky n.1 + -y suffix1.
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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