| 单词 | to fall adown |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fall adown † to fall adown intransitive. To drop or sink downwards; to collapse; to descend; to fall down. Obsolete (archaic in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] styc825 astyc975 alightOE to fall adownOE hieldc1275 downcomea1300 sink?a1300 avalec1374 to go downa1375 to come downc1380 dipc1390 descenda1393 clinea1400 declinea1400 downc1400 inclinec1400 vailc1400 fallc1440 devall1477 condescendc1485 to get down1567 lower1575 dismount1579 to fall down1632 down?1701 demount1837 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) x. 82 Þær feoll adune swilce of ðam hrofe wearm hlaf mid his syflinge. ?a1300 Sayings St. Bernard (Digby) in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 762 (MED) Stond, ne fal namore adoun For a luytel blast! c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8270 Þe on half [of the body] vel adoun anon, þe oþer bileuede stille In þe sadel. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 277 (MED) Þe stoon falliþ adoun of þe reynes toward þe bladdre bi þe weie of þe vrine. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xii. sig. e.ii His gloues..shortly to grounde, falled adowne. 1572 T. Churchyard tr. Ovid Thre First Bookes De Tristibus i. f. 2 While Icarus wyth tender winges did clyme the starrye skye, In surging Seas he fell adowne. 1619 J. Higgins Falles Vnfortunate Princes 161 Fortune..With pleasures all a while, she doth their fancies fill, And at the last doth let them fall adowne againe. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week iv. 38 Oh dear! I fall adown, adown, adown! 1796 E. Day Poems & Fugitive Pieces 93 The ground was rough, she fell adown,—Good Lord, how she did cry! 1862 T. P. Bell Young Hero v. 64 Now an old comrade falls adown hard by. 1917 E. B. Stanton Fata Morgana xvi. 163 The petals that occasionally fell adown from the magnolia flowers o'er head. < as lemmas |
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