| 单词 | to make a stint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a stint a. Cessation of action or motion, pause, stay. Phrase, to make a stint: to stop. withouten stint, but stint (Scottish): without stopping, unceasingly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > continually (in action) [phrase] night and dayeOE day and nightOE without(en) blina1300 morning, noon, and nightc1325 but stintc1330 by and byc1330 early and latec1330 without ceasec1330 without ceasinga1340 withouten hoc1374 without releasec1400 still opece1422 in a ranec1480 never ceasable?1518 without remorse1555 every foot (and anon)1561 round1652 year in and year out1819 twenty-four hours a day1914 the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] lissc1000 ceasec1330 stintc1330 stinting1338 ceasinga1340 discontinuancea1398 cessationa1400 leaving-off?a1425 surceasingc1435 disusage1475 stop1483 staying1546 discontinuation1572 discontinuing1582 surcease1590 stintance1605 cessure1607 desisting1607 avocationa1617 desistance1632 sistencea1639 surceasementa1641 supersession1648 dispractice1673 breaking-off1683 estoppage1701 cess1703 cesser1809 shutdown1857 stoppage1865 shut-off1889 sign-off1919 α. β. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17700 And bi þe hand þan he me hent, And forth me broght, wit-vten stent.c1400 Sc. Trojan War ii. 578 After þe forme of sacrament Swore in old tyme wyt-outen stent.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 6815 Made þey neuere stynt ne stal Tyl þey come to þe Romayns wal. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12977 Þat warlau him in armes hint, And bar him forth wit-vten stint. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) vi. i. 144 b Whan Fortune had said her wil..Made a stint, and sobrely stode still, Iohn Bochas sate & heard [etc.]. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 286 Fra forgyt steyll the fyr flew out but stynt. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 140 And syne for-owtyn langer stynt, The hors he sadylt hastely. 1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Epitome sig. Aij As of Trees,..Birdes, Beastes, yea and Men, there is a degree in growing, a stint or staying, and a diminishing. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iv. ii And I will..drop out both mine eyes in drisling teares, Before my sorrowes tide haue any stint. 1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. 19 True Christian beliefe admits no stint of growth in this life, but still comes nearer and nearer to that euidencie of knowledge. < as lemmas |
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