| 单词 | to kirkward |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto kirkward The direction of a church; = churchward n.2 Only in prepositional phrases, esp. in to kirkward. Obsolete (archaic and poetic in later use). ΚΠ c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. B.15.17) (1975) B. v. l. 297 Now bigynneþ Gloton for to go to shrifte And karieþ [read kaireþ] hym to kirkeward his coupe to shewe. 1420 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 16 (MED) At the hall head to the kyrkward, the heirs..sall bryng furthe..thayre water into the foresayd gutter. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 285 (MED) He mett his wife fro þe kurkward. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 323 (MED) A..man folowid Saynt Martyn vnto þe kurk-ward. 1857 T. W. Parsons Rosary in Putnam's Monthly May 503 She was a generous, discreet, And much-enduring mother, Who early trained my little feet To kirkward with my brother. 1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell i. iii. 53 We have heard A priest of theirs cast for incontinence Hardly with thrice purgation of his shame Redeemed himself to kirkward. < as lemmas |
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