单词 | stoop-gallant |
释义 | † stoop-gallantn. 1. Something that humbles ‘gallants’; originally, a name for the ‘sweating sickness’; later used gen. Also attributive or adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] > one who or that which humiliates stoop-gallant1551 depressor1611 humbler1611 deprimenta1624 putter-down1701 mortifier1801 squabasher1827 humiliator1850 snubber1861 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > sweating sickness swote1481 sweating-sicknessc1503 sweata1517 stoop-gallant1551 stoop knave and know thy master1551 English sweat1552 posting sweatc1553 sweatinga1585 sweating-fever1822 1551 in Gentleman's Mag. (1808) 78 ii. 1057 The hote Sickness, called Stup-gallant. a1560 T. Hancock in Narr. Reformation (Camden) 82 The posting swet, that posted from towne to towne, throwghe England, and was named stope gallant, for hytt spared none, for ther were dawncyng in the cowrte at 9 a'clocke thatt were deadd or aleven a'clocke. c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 81 Thair wes ane seknes universallie in the moneth of September [1510] in Scotland,..it wes callit be the peple stoup galland. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 90 Youngth is a bubble..Whose way is wildernesse, whose ynne Penaunce, And stoopegallaunt Age the hoste of Greeuaunce. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Kii Old cramped sires in their stoupe gallant age. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. R4v Comedie vpon Comedie he shall haue... One shal bee called..Stoope Gallant, or The Fall of pride. 1862 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables III. lxvii. 332 Your stoop-gallant is called cholera. 2. Used allusively as verbal phrase. ΚΠ a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Surrey 84 His Lordship..enforced them to stoop gallant, and to vail their Bonnets for the Queen of England. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1551 |
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