单词 | springing time |
释义 | springing timen. Now archaic and rare. Springtime. Also figurative.In quot. 1691 in plural in the same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring LenteneOE LentlOE warea1300 verec1325 vera1382 vere-time1382 springing timea1387 springinga1398 springa1400 prime tempsa1425 the spring of the year1481 grass1485 springtime1495 prime time1503 sap-time?1523 spring tide1530 (the) spring of the leaf1538 prime1541 prime tide1549 voar1629 vernal season1644 vernal1654 outcome1672 Lent term1691 blossom-time1713 open water1759 rabi1783 budding-timea1807 ware-time1820 growing season1845 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 65 Þe ȝates of Caspij beeþ..in springyng tyme [L. verno tempore] faste i-barred for serpentes and addres. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 374 This eyther craft for spryngyng tyme is born. a1450 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. ii Treen þat nedeþ to be sette beþ moste in springinge tyme..for temporat heete and moisture. a1533 Ld. Berners in tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) sig. A The fruites in the spryngyng tyme haue not the vertue to gyue sustenaunce. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Ephes. iii. f. viiv This spiritual generacion also hath his childehood, hath his springing time, and than his perfite lusty growen age. 1627 S. P. L. tr. One & Forty Divine Odes xxix. 60 As youthfull rage ioy'd with the springing time, Doth pricke the lusty Bull to leape and range. 1691 B. Keach Spiritual Melody viii. 339 We have had a sore Winters day, A pinching time was here; But shall such Weather fly away, And springing times draw near? 1742 J. Hamilton App. Georgicks 15 in tr. Virgil Pastorals Their Wheat and Rye..may have a favourable Seed and springing Time. 1888 Merry Eng. Feb. 644 Those naked boughs..weave a dream beneath their shroud of rime, And smile in sleep, the dream of springing time. 1918 L. Wolcott Gray Dream 181 The lonely soul who watched their springing time and summer must have loved them like sunny-hearted friends. 1939 Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 6 Sept. (Homestead Suppl.) 31/2 Now, drop in the precious sowing—God, the springing time, will guard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387 |
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