> as lemmas

the one…the other

a. Used antithetically in contrast with the other of two persons or things. Chiefly in the one…the other; also poetic without the (rare). the one and the other [compare French l'un et l'autre] : both, the two. Also the one: one of the two (with the other not expressed).In Old English frequently without the definite article, as ān..ōþer.A reflex of the Old English form with the neuter demonstrative, i.e. þæt ān..þæt ōþer, retaining the final -t in combination, became the regular Middle English for all genders, as þat (or þet) an (one)..þat (or þet) oþer, commonly (by metanalysis) the tan (ta, tone, to)..the tother: see tone pron. and adj., tother pron. and adj. I. In the course of the 16th cent. the one..the other became the literary form.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [noun] > both

the one and the otherOE

boc1000

eitherOE

bothlOE

either other1526

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > one of > one of two

oneOE

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xv. 303 Twa lif sind soðlice, þæt an we cunnon, þæt oðer us wæs uncuð ær cristes tocyme.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xviii. 320 We ealle syndon cuman on ðysum life, & ure eard nis na her; ac we synd her swilce weigfærende menn: an cymð, oðer færð; se bið acenned, se oðer forðfærð.

OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 36 Twegen beoð æt æcere, an bið genumen & oðer bið læfed.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1129 Þa wære þær coren twa papes. Se an wæs gehaten Petrus... Se oðer het Gregorius.

a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 81 Þe an is aquenched..and þe oðer is aquenched al buten a gnast.

c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 325 Bi hu muchel þe an passeð þe oþre.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 1936 Þe an sloh þene oðren [c1300 Otho Ac þe on sloh þan oþer].

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 2636 Haueden al þa reuen..iloked tweiene eorles..þe an hehte Gabius, þe oðer Prosenna.

c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 628 Þat on was maide & þat oþer a mon.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 92 Muchedel of engelond, þe on half al bi weste.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 119 Þe on ine þe on, and þe oþer ine þe oþer.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2409 Sai þou for-þi til an and oþer ‘þou art my sister and i þi broþer’.

1414–15 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) p. cxx Sir Marmaduke Constable thelder, knight,..on thone partie, & Sir Robert Plompton..on thother partie.

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. pr. x. 220 Ȝif alle thise thinges..weren membris to felicite, thanne weren thei dyverse, that on fro that othir.

a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 279 (MED) Iubiter had twey wyues..Þat on hight Maye, þat oþer Electra.

c1450 (c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) (1942) 117 (MED) Riȝt so schewen þilke holy ȝiftes bi dedes, þat on in on, þat oþer in oþer.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxx. B Y^e one is called, fetch hither: the other, brynge hither.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 4062 Archisalus was an..And Protheno..þat other.

?1567 Merie Tales Master Skelton sig. Avi^v If any scoler had fallen out thone wyth thother: the one woulde call thother Swanborn.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. viii. 145 Vnlesse Gods miracles had strengthned both the one and the others doctrine.

c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. ii. §4 Distinguished the ane from the other.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxx. 193 A little aukward Piece of One-and-t'other.

1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. ix. 386 Both the one and the other of us equally injure justice and religion.

1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) III. 176 I knew the strength of the heavy lock—I knew the thickness of the nailed oak—I knew the hopelessness of assailing the one and the other by ordinary means.

1959 B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Pathol. viii. 267 Differentiation between the one and the other will be called for only insofar as it affects the kind of treatment that is likely to be helpful.

extracted from oneadj.n.pron.

the one…the other

b. the one…the other (used anaphorically of each of two persons or things previously mentioned).Sense C. 10b(a) appears to be the earlier and natural use; it is also that observed in French and German: see G. Duvivier Gramm. des Gramm. ed. 1842, I. 410; Grimm at Ander 308. Sense C. 10b(b) is probably suggested by the Latin use of hic and ille, or English this and that.

(a) The former…the latter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > one of > one of two > the former or latter of two

the one…the other1340

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 75 (MED) Þe hare yernþ, þe gryhond hym uolȝeþ; þe on be drede, þe oþer be wylnynge.

c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) 631 A child..þat þreo feet and þreo honden beere, And anoþer..þet hedde foot or hond forlore... Þe on hedde kuynde ouermeþ, And þat oþer to luyte.

a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 9 Þe siluyr wole be dissolued, and not þe gold: þanne ȝe haue þat oon departid fro þe toþir.

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. i. f.lxix^v The hole chyrch had never taken all ye tone sort and reiected all the tother.

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Mvi The one denyed the matter, and the tother confessed it.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. viii. 146 In the presence of Festus a Romane, and of King Agrippa a Iewe, S. Paul omitting the one, who neither knew the Iewes religion, nor the bookes..speaketh vnto the other of things foreshewed by Moses & the Prophets.

1599 R. Barnfield in W. Shakespeare et al. Passionate Pilgrime (new ed.) sig. B2 If Musicke and sweet Poetrie agree..Then must the loue be great twixt thee and me, Because thou lou'st the one, and I the other.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 260 A Side for the Banquet..and a Side; for the Houshold: The One for Feasts and Triumphs, the Other for Dwelling.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. xx. 151 Betwixt the Isopleuron and Scalenum, not so ordinate a Figure as the one, nor so inordinate as the other.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. viii. 230 Our simple Ideas have all abstract, as well as concrete Names: The one whereof is..a Substantive, the other an Adjective; as Whiteness, White.

1746 Fool (1748) II. 101 The one sell their Country to get bad Principles, the other to get good ones.

1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. I. 349 The death of John and the abdication of Lewis..The one was brought about by accident, and the other by the prudence..of the earl of Pembroke.

1841 D. Brewster Martyrs of Sci. ii. i. 132 John and Paul Hainzel, the one a septemvir, and the other the consul or burgomaster.

1901 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 316 She ought to blame the ones, and to punish the others.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 518 The influence of the chemical substance is either that of attraction or repulsion, the one being known as positive, the other as negative chemotaxis.

1991 R. Davies Murther & Walking Spirits xvii. 142 That demands two things—Vision and Capital. The one without the other is unavailing.

†(b) The latter…the former. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 161 Samson and Hercules..the one yealded his Clob at Dianiras foot, the other committed his strength vnto the beautie of Dalida.

1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. ii. 6 The women were accounted nothing inferior to the men. For as the one founded the Empires of the Persians and Bactrians, so the other errected the souerainty of the Amazons.

1613 S. Purchas His Pilgrimage VII. ix. 582 Thus haue the Europæan cattell of horse and kine so encreased in that other world, as they spare not to kill the one for their hides, and the other for their tailes.

1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 187 Some die, because they feel, and others live because they feel not. So that the one are Fools, because they die not of feeling, and the others because they die of it.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 117 The nobility and the clergy, the one by profession, the other by patronage, kept learning in existence.

1886 A. M. Fairbairn City of God (ed. 2) iv. iii. 356 Where the exchange and the cathedral stand together, the one for admiration, the other for business.

extracted from oneadj.n.pron.

as lemmas

单词	the one…the other
释义	> as lemmas the one…the other a. Used antithetically in contrast with the other of two persons or things. Chiefly in the one…the other; also poetic without the (rare). the one and the other [compare French l'un et l'autre] : both, the two. Also the one: one of the two (with the other not expressed).In Old English frequently without the definite article, as ān..ōþer.A reflex of the Old English form with the neuter demonstrative, i.e. þæt ān..þæt ōþer, retaining the final -t in combination, became the regular Middle English for all genders, as þat (or þet) an (one)..þat (or þet) oþer, commonly (by metanalysis) the tan (ta, tone, to)..the tother: see tone pron. and adj., tother pron. and adj. I. In the course of the 16th cent. the one..the other became the literary form. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [noun] > both the one and the otherOE boc1000 eitherOE bothlOE either other1526 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > one of > one of two oneOE OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xv. 303 Twa lif sind soðlice, þæt an we cunnon, þæt oðer us wæs uncuð ær cristes tocyme. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xviii. 320 We ealle syndon cuman on ðysum life, & ure eard nis na her; ac we synd her swilce weigfærende menn: an cymð, oðer færð; se bið acenned, se oðer forðfærð. OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 36 Twegen beoð æt æcere, an bið genumen & oðer bið læfed. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1129 Þa wære þær coren twa papes. Se an wæs gehaten Petrus... Se oðer het Gregorius. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 81 Þe an is aquenched..and þe oðer is aquenched al buten a gnast. c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 325 Bi hu muchel þe an passeð þe oþre. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 1936 Þe an sloh þene oðren [c1300 Otho Ac þe on sloh þan oþer]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 2636 Haueden al þa reuen..iloked tweiene eorles..þe an hehte Gabius, þe oðer Prosenna. c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 628 Þat on was maide & þat oþer a mon. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 92 Muchedel of engelond, þe on half al bi weste. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 119 Þe on ine þe on, and þe oþer ine þe oþer. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2409 Sai þou for-þi til an and oþer ‘þou art my sister and i þi broþer’. 1414–15 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) p. cxx Sir Marmaduke Constable thelder, knight,..on thone partie, & Sir Robert Plompton..on thother partie. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. pr. x. 220 Ȝif alle thise thinges..weren membris to felicite, thanne weren thei dyverse, that on fro that othir. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 279 (MED) Iubiter had twey wyues..Þat on hight Maye, þat oþer Electra. c1450 (c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) (1942) 117 (MED) Riȝt so schewen þilke holy ȝiftes bi dedes, þat on in on, þat oþer in oþer. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxx. B Y^e one is called, fetch hither: the other, brynge hither. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 4062 Archisalus was an..And Protheno..þat other. ?1567 Merie Tales Master Skelton sig. Avi^v If any scoler had fallen out thone wyth thother: the one woulde call thother Swanborn. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. viii. 145 Vnlesse Gods miracles had strengthned both the one and the others doctrine. c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. ii. §4 Distinguished the ane from the other. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxx. 193 A little aukward Piece of One-and-t'other. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. ix. 386 Both the one and the other of us equally injure justice and religion. 1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) III. 176 I knew the strength of the heavy lock—I knew the thickness of the nailed oak—I knew the hopelessness of assailing the one and the other by ordinary means. 1959 B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Pathol. viii. 267 Differentiation between the one and the other will be called for only insofar as it affects the kind of treatment that is likely to be helpful. extracted from oneadj.n.pron. the one…the other b. the one…the other (used anaphorically of each of two persons or things previously mentioned).Sense C. 10b(a) appears to be the earlier and natural use; it is also that observed in French and German: see G. Duvivier Gramm. des Gramm. ed. 1842, I. 410; Grimm at Ander 308. Sense C. 10b(b) is probably suggested by the Latin use of hic and ille, or English this and that. (a) The former…the latter. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > one of > one of two > the former or latter of two the one…the other1340 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 75 (MED) Þe hare yernþ, þe gryhond hym uolȝeþ; þe on be drede, þe oþer be wylnynge. c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) 631 A child..þat þreo feet and þreo honden beere, And anoþer..þet hedde foot or hond forlore... Þe on hedde kuynde ouermeþ, And þat oþer to luyte. a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 9 Þe siluyr wole be dissolued, and not þe gold: þanne ȝe haue þat oon departid fro þe toþir. 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. i. f.lxix^v The hole chyrch had never taken all ye tone sort and reiected all the tother. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Mvi The one denyed the matter, and the tother confessed it. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. viii. 146 In the presence of Festus a Romane, and of King Agrippa a Iewe, S. Paul omitting the one, who neither knew the Iewes religion, nor the bookes..speaketh vnto the other of things foreshewed by Moses & the Prophets. 1599 R. Barnfield in W. Shakespeare et al. Passionate Pilgrime (new ed.) sig. B2 If Musicke and sweet Poetrie agree..Then must the loue be great twixt thee and me, Because thou lou'st the one, and I the other. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 260 A Side for the Banquet..and a Side; for the Houshold: The One for Feasts and Triumphs, the Other for Dwelling. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. xx. 151 Betwixt the Isopleuron and Scalenum, not so ordinate a Figure as the one, nor so inordinate as the other. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. viii. 230 Our simple Ideas have all abstract, as well as concrete Names: The one whereof is..a Substantive, the other an Adjective; as Whiteness, White. 1746 Fool (1748) II. 101 The one sell their Country to get bad Principles, the other to get good ones. 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. I. 349 The death of John and the abdication of Lewis..The one was brought about by accident, and the other by the prudence..of the earl of Pembroke. 1841 D. Brewster Martyrs of Sci. ii. i. 132 John and Paul Hainzel, the one a septemvir, and the other the consul or burgomaster. 1901 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 316 She ought to blame the ones, and to punish the others. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 518 The influence of the chemical substance is either that of attraction or repulsion, the one being known as positive, the other as negative chemotaxis. 1991 R. Davies Murther & Walking Spirits xvii. 142 That demands two things—Vision and Capital. The one without the other is unavailing. †(b) The latter…the former. Obsolete. ΚΠ ?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 161 Samson and Hercules..the one yealded his Clob at Dianiras foot, the other committed his strength vnto the beautie of Dalida. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. ii. 6 The women were accounted nothing inferior to the men. For as the one founded the Empires of the Persians and Bactrians, so the other errected the souerainty of the Amazons. 1613 S. Purchas His Pilgrimage VII. ix. 582 Thus haue the Europæan cattell of horse and kine so encreased in that other world, as they spare not to kill the one for their hides, and the other for their tailes. 1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 187 Some die, because they feel, and others live because they feel not. So that the one are Fools, because they die not of feeling, and the others because they die of it. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 117 The nobility and the clergy, the one by profession, the other by patronage, kept learning in existence. View more context for this quotation 1886 A. M. Fairbairn City of God (ed. 2) iv. iii. 356 Where the exchange and the cathedral stand together, the one for admiration, the other for business. extracted from oneadj.n.pron. < as lemmas
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