单词 | starkle |
释义 | † starklev. Obsolete. intransitive. Originally: to act in a hostile or threatening manner, to create a stir. Later also: to show signs of fear, quake, take fright. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > make gestures [verb (intransitive)] beckonc950 becka1300 wevec1325 playc1330 to make a countenancea1375 signc1520 token1535 gesture1542 starkle?1544 scrawl1582 gesticulate1609 annuate1623 to make a motion1719 wink1738 motion1788 the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > shudder with fear quakeOE agriseOE quavec1225 grisea1250 shiverc1250 aquake1303 tremble1303 gruec1330 shuddera1350 darea1400 gryec1400 grillc1420 fremishc1425 shrugc1440 oggle?a1475 hugge1483 starkle?1544 trepidate1623 quiver1670 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] > behave threateningly > use threatening gestures starkle?1544 ?1544 J. Bale Epist. Exhortatorye f. xxiii You sturdye struggelers will somwhat starkle at this my homelye writinge, yet shall not that make me to leaue of. ?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) i. sig. Bv The boystuouse tyrauntes of Sodoma..wyll sturre abought them... Owr worldlye wyse brethren also, which are neither hote nor colde, will starcle a course at the matter. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xciijv Than stirt up Becket, and starkeled lyke a lyon, sekynge..to brynge the kynge vndre. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxi. 7) i. f. 265v/2 Although men starkled at him as at a monster [L. quamvis instar prodigii execrati sint eum homines]. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. xli. 71 This act of his made diuerse of the senatours..to starkle for feare of hazarding their estate. a1624 Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 72 If those condemne you for altering of your course, I cannot blame you to starkle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < v.?1544 |
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