单词 | abord |
释义 | abordn.ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > approach and speaking to a person boarding1546 accosting1603 abord1607 coasting1609 accostmenta1626 advance1652 1607 E. Grimeston tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 561 The Cittie of Thoul at the first abord [Fr. d'abord], puts it selfe into the Kings protection. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxviii. 253 He [sc. a blind man] would, att the first abord of a stranger..frame a right apprehension of his stature. 1655 J. Jennings tr. J.-P. Camus Elise 116 This, at first aboard, astonish'd Cyrilla. 1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 6 July (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1366 Whether your first abord made that advantageous impression. 1777 S. J. Pratt Trav. for Heart II. 208 This precious fellow began, at his first abord, to shew off. 1854 P. G. Patmore Friends & Acq. III. xviii. 100 Such were the impressions produced on me by the first abord of John Hunt, as I saw him within his prison walls. 1884 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 557 Her granddaughter has a vivid recollection of Mrs. Merivale in her later days, with a slightly formal and old-fashioned ‘abord’. 2. A road or way of approach. rare. ΚΠ 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 82 I neuer sew a more stately abord to any Citty then to this [sc. to Genoa]. 1913 H. James Small Boy & Others vi. 69 We always arrived by boat and I have still in my nostril the sense of the abords of the hot town, the rank and rubbishy waterside quarters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1607 |
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