swevenn.

/ˈswɛv(ə)n/

Forms: Old English swefen ( suoefn, soefn, swæfn), Old English, Middle English swefn, (Middle English suefen, sweoven), Middle English swefene, sueven(e, swevene, (Middle English squeven, squevyn, squevin, Middle English swevon, Middle English swevn, swyven, swene, sween, sweine, sweyne), Middle English–1500s swevin, (Middle English swevyn, 1500s Scottish swewyn, sweving, swevyng), 1500s–1700s sweaven, (1600s sweeven), Middle English– sweven.

Etymology: Old English swef(e)n strong neuter, sleep, dream = Old Saxon sweƀan strong masculine, Old Norse svefn strong masculine < Germanic *swefno- < Indo-European *swepno-, < swep-. The parallel formations *swepno- , swopno- , supno- are represented outside Germanic by Sanskrit svápnas , Greek ὕπνος , Latin somnus , Armenian khun , Old Irish suan , Welsh hun , Old Church Slavonic sŭnŭ , Lithuanian sãpnas ; and, with secondary suffix, Sanskrit svápn(i)yam , Greek ἐνύπνιον , Latin somnium , Old Church Slavonic sŭnĭje . From Indo-European swep- : swop- : swup- are derived also Sanskrit svápiti to sleep, Latin sopor sleep, Old English swefan (see sweve v.), Old Church Slavonic sŭpati to sleep.

Obsolete exc. archaic.

1. A dream, vision.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun]

swevenc897

metingOE

showing?c1225

sweveningc1275

dreamc1300

metels1340

dremels1362

night visiona1382

metreda1393

dreaminga1400

somniation1598

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > a vision > [noun]

swevenc897

sightc950

showing?c1225

visionc1290

avisionc1300

phantasma1398

semblance1489

visure1535

visioning1832

c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xvi. 101 For ðære gesihðe ðe he on ðæm swefne geseah.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. i. 20 In somnis, in suoefnum vel in slepe.

a1000 Cædmon's Dan. (Gr.) 496 Him wearð on slæpe swefen ætywed.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 196 Hit bringeð to naut. al þes deofles wiȝeles..ase lease swefnes false schawunges.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12752 Alse þe king slepte a sweuen him imette. feorlic wes þat sweouen.

c1305 St. Kenelm 147 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 51 Þis sueuene bicom soþ ynouȝ.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 224 God dede dat he on sweuene cam, And in ðat sweuene he let him sen Mikel ðat after sulde ben.

c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 101 Allas and konne ye been agast of sweuenys No thyng god woot, but vanitee in sweuene is.

c1420 Chron. Vilod. 1668 A merueylle swene he dude þo mete.

1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 199 Manasses..beleuyd swenys and sorsrie.

a1450 Le Morte Arth. 3226 In stronge sweyneys I haue bene stad.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xiii. 53 Alle that herd of the sweuen said it was a token of grete batayll.

?a1500 Chester Pl., Balaam 382 Then shold our childre prophesie, ould men meet swevens [v.r. sweens] wytterly.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. xii. 64 The figour fled as lycht wynd, or son beyme, Or mast liklie a waverand sweving [v.r. sweuin] or dreyme.

?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Fii^v And looked all my chamber round about, And called to remembraunce all my sweuen.

1594 Zepheria iii. sig. B2 I as out of sweauen, My selfe gan rowse, like one from sleepe awaked.

a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) ii. ii. 26 Dan Cupido Sure sent thylke sweven to mine head.

a1650 in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS I. 169 I had thought sweuens had neuer been true.

a1650 Robin Hood & Guy of Gisborne iv Sweauens are swift, master..As the wind that blowes ore a hill.

a1832 W. Motherwell Sabbath Summer Noon in Poems xx Fast fade the cares of life's dull sweven.

1840 C. Kingsley Weird Lady in Poems (1892) 211 Mary Mother she stooped from heaven; She wakened Earl Harold out of his sweven.

†2. Sleep. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun]

sleepc825

swevenOE

swevetOE

repasta1382

slumberc1386

lib1665

the land of Nod1738

balmy1841

shut-eye1899

beddy-byes1906

dreamland1912

sleepy-bye1925

sack drill1946

sack duty1954

zed1973

OE Genesis 720 Hit wæs þeah deaðes swefn..menniscra morð.

a1698 C. Morton Ess. Stork & Turtle (1703) 19 If they [sc. swallows] should have no occasion for Breath while they lye in their Sweeven and Winter Sleep. [Cf. quot. 1623 at swevet n.]

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

† swevenv.

Etymology: Old English swefnian transitive to appear to in a dream, intransitive to dream, < swefn : see sweven n.

Obsolete.

intransitive. To dream.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [verb (intransitive)]

swevenc1000

metec1300

dreama1325

to be adreamed1556

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 212 Gif ðu swefnast ðe twege monan geseon.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxix. 8 As sweueneth the hungrende, and eteth, whan forsothe he were wakid, voide is his soule.

14.. Langl. P. Pl. Prol. 10 (MS. Univ. Coll. e. 45) I slombride on a slepynge & sweuenyd so myrie, Þan gan y to mete a merueylous sweuene.

1532 Chaucer's Wks., Troylus iii. 1190 If ye be wyse Sweueneth [MSS. swouneth, etc.] not nowe, leste more folke aryse.

Derivatives

† ˈswevener n. (also Scottishsuengour, swevyngeour) Obsolete a dreamer.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > one who dreams

meter?a1300

swevenera1382

dreamera1400

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxvii. 9 Ȝoure profetus, and deuynoures, and sweueneres.

1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 171 Suengouris [v.r. swevyngeouris] that slummeris nocht weil.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	sweven
释义	swevenn. /ˈswɛv(ə)n/ Forms: Old English swefen ( suoefn, soefn, swæfn), Old English, Middle English swefn, (Middle English suefen, sweoven), Middle English swefene, sueven(e, swevene, (Middle English squeven, squevyn, squevin, Middle English swevon, Middle English swevn, swyven, swene, sween, sweine, sweyne), Middle English–1500s swevin, (Middle English swevyn, 1500s Scottish swewyn, sweving, swevyng), 1500s–1700s sweaven, (1600s sweeven), Middle English– sweven. Etymology: Old English swef(e)n strong neuter, sleep, dream = Old Saxon sweƀan strong masculine, Old Norse svefn strong masculine < Germanic swefno- < Indo-European swepno-, < swep-. The parallel formations swepno- , swopno-* , supno- are represented outside Germanic by Sanskrit svápnas , Greek ὕπνος , Latin somnus , Armenian khun , Old Irish suan , Welsh hun , Old Church Slavonic sŭnŭ , Lithuanian sãpnas ; and, with secondary suffix, Sanskrit svápn(i)yam , Greek ἐνύπνιον , Latin somnium , Old Church Slavonic sŭnĭje . From Indo-European swep- : swop- : swup- are derived also Sanskrit svápiti to sleep, Latin sopor sleep, Old English swefan (see sweve v.), Old Church Slavonic sŭpati to sleep. Obsolete exc. archaic. 1. A dream, vision. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] swevenc897 metingOE showing?c1225 sweveningc1275 dreamc1300 metels1340 dremels1362 night visiona1382 metreda1393 dreaminga1400 somniation1598 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > a vision > [noun] swevenc897 sightc950 showing?c1225 visionc1290 avisionc1300 phantasma1398 semblance1489 visure1535 visioning1832 c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xvi. 101 For ðære gesihðe ðe he on ðæm swefne geseah. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. i. 20 In somnis, in suoefnum vel in slepe. a1000 Cædmon's Dan. (Gr.) 496 Him wearð on slæpe swefen ætywed. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 196 Hit bringeð to naut. al þes deofles wiȝeles..ase lease swefnes false schawunges. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12752 Alse þe king slepte a sweuen him imette. feorlic wes þat sweouen. c1305 St. Kenelm 147 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 51 Þis sueuene bicom soþ ynouȝ. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 224 God dede dat he on sweuene cam, And in ðat sweuene he let him sen Mikel ðat after sulde ben. c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 101 Allas and konne ye been agast of sweuenys No thyng god woot, but vanitee in sweuene is. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 1668 A merueylle swene he dude þo mete. 1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 199 Manasses..beleuyd swenys and sorsrie. a1450 Le Morte Arth. 3226 In stronge sweyneys I haue bene stad. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xiii. 53 Alle that herd of the sweuen said it was a token of grete batayll. ?a1500 Chester Pl., Balaam 382 Then shold our childre prophesie, ould men meet swevens [v.r. sweens] wytterly. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. xii. 64 The figour fled as lycht wynd, or son beyme, Or mast liklie a waverand sweving [v.r. sweuin] or dreyme. ?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Fii^v And looked all my chamber round about, And called to remembraunce all my sweuen. 1594 Zepheria iii. sig. B2 I as out of sweauen, My selfe gan rowse, like one from sleepe awaked. a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) ii. ii. 26 Dan Cupido Sure sent thylke sweven to mine head. a1650 in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS I. 169 I had thought sweuens had neuer been true. a1650 Robin Hood & Guy of Gisborne iv Sweauens are swift, master..As the wind that blowes ore a hill. a1832 W. Motherwell Sabbath Summer Noon in Poems xx Fast fade the cares of life's dull sweven. 1840 C. Kingsley Weird Lady in Poems (1892) 211 Mary Mother she stooped from heaven; She wakened Earl Harold out of his sweven. †2. Sleep. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] sleepc825 swevenOE swevetOE repasta1382 slumberc1386 lib1665 the land of Nod1738 balmy1841 shut-eye1899 beddy-byes1906 dreamland1912 sleepy-bye1925 sack drill1946 sack duty1954 zed1973 OE Genesis 720 Hit wæs þeah deaðes swefn..menniscra morð. a1698 C. Morton Ess. Stork & Turtle (1703) 19 If they [sc. swallows] should have no occasion for Breath while they lye in their Sweeven and Winter Sleep. [Cf. quot. 1623 at swevet n.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † swevenv. Etymology: Old English swefnian transitive to appear to in a dream, intransitive to dream, < swefn : see sweven n. Obsolete. intransitive. To dream. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [verb (intransitive)] swevenc1000 metec1300 dreama1325 to be adreamed1556 c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 212 Gif ðu swefnast ðe twege monan geseon. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxix. 8 As sweueneth the hungrende, and eteth, whan forsothe he were wakid, voide is his soule. 14.. Langl. P. Pl. Prol. 10 (MS. Univ. Coll. e. 45) I slombride on a slepynge & sweuenyd so myrie, Þan gan y to mete a merueylous sweuene. 1532 Chaucer's Wks., Troylus iii. 1190 If ye be wyse Sweueneth [MSS. swouneth, etc.] not nowe, leste more folke aryse. Derivatives † ˈswevener n. (also Scottishsuengour, swevyngeour) Obsolete a dreamer. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > one who dreams meter?a1300 swevenera1382 dreamera1400 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxvii. 9 Ȝoure profetus, and deuynoures, and sweueneres. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. 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