| 单词 | through-bright |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthrough-bright a. Forming adjectives with the senses ‘(right) through’, ‘all through’, ‘thoroughly, completely’, as through-bright, through-holy, through-hot, etc. In early use frequently as an intensifier: ‘very’.See also through wet at thorough wet adj. α. forms. Cf. through adv. 2b for some less established collocations. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 240 Hi sungon on æfenunga eft oðerne sealm, and on heora gebedum wunodon þurhwacole oð midde niht. OE Seven Sleepers (Julius) (1994) 57 Eall heora nebwlite ongann to scinenne swilce seo þurhbeorhte sunne. OE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 162) in H. L. C. Tristram Vier Altenglische Predigten aus der Heterodoxen Trad. (Ph.D. diss., Freiburg) (1970) 428 Men ða leofestan we wyllað eow sume gereccednysse cyðan embe ðyses þurhhaligan symbeldæges mærsunge & wurðunge þe nu andwerd ys. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 145 (MED) Ðu makedest of hire, senfulle ðat hie was, þurȝhali. c1300 St. Brendan (Harl.) l. 163 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 224 Þo þis fur was þurf-hot [a1350 Ashm. þoruhot; a1325 Corpus Cambr. þoru out hot], þe yle quakede anon. ?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 459 When thai byn thurgh hote take hom up with a skymmour. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xxvi. 156 Once through-hot, long in cooling. < as lemmas |
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