单词 | sithing |
释义 | sithingn. Now rare (English regional (chiefly midlands and southern) and U.S. regional (New England) in later use). The action of sighing; a sigh. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > [noun] sikinga1300 sikea1325 sichinga1387 sightinga1400 sithingc1450 heavinga1616 the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [noun] > sighing sighinga1300 sikinga1300 sikea1325 sichinga1387 sightinga1400 sithingc1450 suspiration?1504 suspiringc1550 heavea1571 c1450 Bk. Gostlye Grace (1979) 413 He delyte hym..atte the syghchynge [read syghthynge] or sorowynge of a mane efter hym for luffe. c1475 Mankind (1969) l. 738 (MED) Wepynge, sythynge, and sobbynge were my suffycyens; All naturall nutriment to me as caren ys odybull. c1530 T. Wolsey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 27 Thys nygth my brethe and wynde by sythyng was so short that I was..as one that shuld have dyd. 1545 T. Paynell tr. St. Bernard Compend. Treat. Well Liuynge f. clxxix As men of this worlde reioyce in worldlye musyke, so take you your delyte & comfort in spirytuall sythyng and heuynes. 1608 P. Woodward tr. Gregory Dialogues i. 53 There with great sithinge [he] fell to his praiers. 1677 T. Bayle Relation Mans Return 21 That the sorrowing and sithing would flee away, and instead thereof joy and rejoiceing would be. 1733 M. Storer Let. 19 Apr. in E. L. Coleman New Eng. Captives carried to Canada (1926) I. 418 My hart brakes with sithing and my ioys smart with teers. 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms (at cited word) I knew a clergyman who always read ‘Sithing’, for ‘sighing of a contrite heart’. a1871 J. Goldswain Chron. (1946) I. i. 3 My poor Father said but little but I could see by his sithing that he tuck it verey much to hart. 1968 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2002) IV. 979/2 When a person’s getting sleepy and opens his mouth wide and takes a deep breath, that’s a... [New York State] Sithing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † sithingadj. Obsolete. Accompanied by or uttered with a sigh or sighs; (of a person) that sighs. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > [adjective] sithing1570 sighinga1616 suspirious1751 siking- the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [adjective] > sighing sithing1570 sighinga1616 suspirious1751 suspiratious1824 suspirative1872 siking- 1570 [implied in: J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aj What manly vertues, in other noble men,..he Sythingly aspired after. (at sithingly adv.)]. 1572 T. Churchyard tr. Ovid Thre First Bookes De Tristibus iii. v. f. 21v My naked necke wyth heauy armes, thou frendlye didst embrace, Wyth sithing sobbes [1580 sighing sobs; L. singultatis..sonis] did kisses heape, vppon my feareful face. 1576 M. Bewe in R. Edwards Paradyse Daynty Deuises 75 My sithyng seas, shall flowe with streames of teares. 1609 R. Armin Ital. Taylor sig. E2 The sithing King sayes, Courage man. a1676 Duke of Newcastle Phanseys (1956) lx. 78 And my last sithinge breath shall tell How much I lov'd you; so fairewell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019). < n.c1450adj.1570 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。