单词 | threte |
释义 | † threten. Scottish. Obsolete. Origin and meaning obscure. Occurs apparently only in Douglas's Æneis, where it is expletive, answering to nothing in the Latin. Referred in Ruddiman's Glossary, 1710, to threat n., and explained as ‘a throng, crowd, haste, speed’. Jamieson takes it in the first quot. as ‘throng, crowd’ (which does not suit the context); the second and third examples he renders ‘in haste, eagerly’, the fourth ‘in pairs, in couples’. In all the passages we have perhaps strained applications of threat n. 2, ‘pressure, etc.’ introduced for the sake of rhyme. ΚΠ 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. [x.] ix. 33 Scho..Him towart hir hes brocht, but ony threte. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. ii. 117 Sum vthir..the colis hett Wndir the speitis swakkis, to roist in threit The raw spaldis ordanit for the muld meit. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xii. 141 The rynnyng hund dois hym [the hart] assail in threte Baith with swyft raise and with his questis grete. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. ix. 78 That this Murranus the renis and the thetis Quharwyth hys stedis ȝokkit war in thretis Vndyr the quhelis hes do weltit doun. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † thretev. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To dispute, contend; to quarrel, wrangle. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] threapc1175 disputea1225 thretec1400 varyc1450 fray1465 to fall out1470 to set (or fall) at variancec1522 quarrel1530 square1530 to break a straw1542 to be or to fall at (a) square1545 to fall at jar1552 cowl1556 tuilyie1565 jarl1580 snarl1597 to fall foul1600 to cast out1730 fisticuff1833 spat1848 cagmag1882 rag1889 to part brass-rags1898 hassle1949 blue1955 c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 560 I hyred þe for a peny a grete, Quy bygynnez þou now to þrete? c1430 This World but Vanyte 20 in Hymns Virgin (1867) 83 Þe kinde of childhode y dide also, Wiþ my felawis to fiȝte and þrete. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7110 Þai were stonyd what þis moght mene, What þai suld do þai thret þaim betwene. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 17 So thochtis thretis in thra our breistis ourthwort. [Probably belongs here.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1513v.c1400 |
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