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单词 to be sprent with
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to be sprent with
3. transitive (in passive). to be sprent with.In later use passing into adjective: see sprent adj.
a. To be speckled or spotted with (a particular colour or colours); to be covered with (spots). Cf. sprent adj. 3a.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxx. 39 Þe schepe shulden..bern spotty & speckyd and spreynd [L. respersa] with dyuerse colour .
1552 in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1869) 4 88 A vestment of blewe velvyt with a crosse of redde velvyt sprenged with gold.
?1562 Thersytes sig. D.iiv The spere of spanysshe spylbery sprente wt spiteful spottes.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa5 Other where the snowy substaunce [was] sprent With vermell.
b. figurative. To be strewn with, full of, or covered with. Cf. sprent adj. 2.In quot. c1475 with reference to speaking words intended to please.
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?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. iv. l. 1102 Þe swetnesse of mannes welefulnesse is yspranid [read yspraind; L. respersa] wiþ many [emended in ed. to manye] bitternesses.
c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Order of Fools (Laud) in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 450 Tonge spreynt with sugre, þe galle kept secre.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. i. 43 Quhar that our hous with broderis deid wes sprent.
c. To be sprinkled or spattered with (blood, tears, etc.). Cf. sprent adj. 1b.
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c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 265 The crosse of oure lorde, that was than spreyned with his preciouse..blood.
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) vi. 25 The gentyl mayde..ful sprenct wyth grete teerys.
a1554 J. Croke tr. Thirteen Psalms (1844) vi. 6 My bed with tears is over sprent.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ii. sig. B5v Streames of bloud did rayle Adowne,..That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent . View more context for this quotation
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iv. 149 Being spreint with his bloud thus slaine.
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. G. Fracastoro Maidens Blush (1620) sig. B7v Hee teares his hoary haire, With Ashes sprent.
1762 J. Scott Hymn to Repentance 7 Oh come with Ashes sprent, in Sackcloth drest, And wring thy piteous hands.
1778 J. Bampfylde Sixteen Sonnets 1 Pale Winter lights the social fire, And meads with slime are sprent and ways with mire.
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