单词 | suspire |
释义 | † suspiren. Obsolete. A sigh. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [noun] > sighing > a sigh sichec1000 sike?c1225 sighinga1300 sighta1375 sighc1381 soughc1386 suspirec1450 sithe?1553 sospire?1578 c1450 Envoy to Alison 25 Suspiris which I effunde in silence! c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vii. 56 The quhilk reproche sche pronuncit vitht mony dolorus suspiris. 1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine v. iv. 2 The circuit of the azure sky Throwes forth sad throbs and grieuous suspirs. 1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. B4v Gods are neuer touch't with my suspires, Passions and throbs. 1637 T. Heywood Pleasant Dial. ii, in Wks. (1874) VI. 130 Whence came that deep suspire? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2021). suspirev. Now chiefly poetic. 1. intransitive. To sigh; rare in lit. sense; chiefly figurative to sigh or long for, yearn after. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn [verb (intransitive)] thirstc893 forlongc1175 longc1225 alonga1393 greena1400 suspirec1450 earnc1460 to think long?1461 sigh1549 groanc1560 hank1589 twitter1616 linger1630 hanker1642 to hang a nose1655 hangc1672 yammer1705 yen1919 the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (intransitive)] > sigh sichec893 sikec1175 sughc1175 sigh1377 sightc1450 sithec1450 suspirec1450 soughc1475 supire?1590 to break a sigh1765 sock1863 c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xxxvii. 107 To be prouoked to hyer þinges, &..to suspire þerto by desire. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 532/2 Suspyring and sighing after the sight of god. a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) ccxxviii. 22 To reioise my wofull herte, With sighis suspiring most rufullie? 1610 Hellish Councell practised by Jesuites 18 Thy happinesse giues vs leaue to respire, thy absence iustly compels vs to suspire, and the place where we make no doubt thou art, makes vs thither to aspire. 1671 A. Woodhead in tr. Life St. Teresa Pref. 12 Prayer..consists more in sighing and suspiring after that object, that it is already convinced most to deserve its love. 1855 R. Browning Serenade at Villa 12 Earth turned in her sleep with pain, Sultrily suspired for proof. 1887 ‘Q’ Dead Man's Rock 294 Every note breathing pathos or suspiring in tremulous anguish. 2. transitive. To utter with a sigh, to sigh forth. Also, to breathe out. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > with a sigh or unhappily pule1535 suspirec1550 sigh1553 sob1782 sough1816 the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (transitive)] > sigh > utter with suspirec1550 sigh1553 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vii. 55 Sche began to suspire lamentabil regrettis. 1865 J. Thomson Art iii. ii Did he ever suspire a tender lay. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. x. 44 A bolt from heaven..suspiring flame. 1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 677 How lustily the bellows did suspire Breath for the flames! 3. intransitive. To breathe. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > breathe [verb (intransitive)] etheOE breathea1398 andea1400 respire?a1425 blowc1440 queasea1500 suspire1600 respirate1668 rake1793 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 164 Did he suspire, that light and weightlesse dowlne Perforce must moue. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iv. 80 Since the birth of Caine, the first male-childe To him that did but yesterday suspire . View more context for this quotation 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 312 Fire-flies, that suspire In short soft lapses of transported flame. 1866 A. C. Swinburne Hermaphroditus in Poems & Ballads 10 Their breath is fire upon the amorous air, Fire in thine eyes and where thy lips suspire. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [adjective] > longed for longed1572 thirsted?1611 suspireda1639 yearned1797 a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 351 The long Suspired Redeemer of the World. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [noun] > sighing sighinga1300 sikinga1300 sikea1325 sichinga1387 sightinga1400 sithingc1450 suspiration?1504 suspiringc1550 heavea1571 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 18 The lamentabil suspiring that procedit fra my dolorus hart. 1671 A. Woodhead in tr. Life St. Teresa Pref. 9 Prayer..by interior frequent suspirings and ejaculations interposed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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