| 单词 | third, fourth, fifth, etc scruple |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthird, fourth, fifth, etc. scruple a. scruple of an hour: the sixtieth part of an hour, a minute: more fully first scruple, the successive smaller fractions of the sexagesimal scale being called second scruple (= our ‘second’), third, fourth, fifth, etc. scruple. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > minute > [noun] minutea1393 mint-whilec1400 minute tide1492 min1588 scruple of an hour1603 M1670 1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. iv. 143 I haue a plumbe watche..and this, with one motion giueth me so perfectly, both the minute and second scruple of time, that hauing obserued [etc.]. 1631 F. Quarles Hist. Samson Med. xxi. 128 How can it be expected, we have power To hold out Seige, one scruple of an hower. 1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New World & Another Planet (new ed.) ii. vii. 124 If a man leaping up in a Ship, may abide in the Aire on the second scruple of an houre. c1653 T. Whalley Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cclxxxvii. 603 [A computation expressed in sexagesimals of an hour is referred to as being] in hourly scruples. < as lemmas |
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