单词 | to year |
释义 | to yearadv.adj. Now rare and English regional. This year. In Middle English also: (a) †now, at present (obsolete); (b) in negative constructions with no, not: †never, not at all (obsolete).In quot. 1483 also as adj.: of this year. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adverb] > this year to yearOE OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) vii. 88 Swylce heo [sc. seo sunne] nu togeare gange on ærnemerigen on þæs emnihtes circule, oðre geare on middæge. OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Corpus Cambr. 41) 25 Dec. (2013) 34 God hwæte geweaxeð togeare. c1300 St. Brendan (Harl.) l. 240 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 226 Ȝoure ester ȝe schulle holde þer as ȝe dude to-ȝere. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 168 Yet hadde I leuere wedde no wyf to yeere. a1425 (?a1350) Gospel of Nicodemus (Galba) (1907) l. 966 (MED) Of Iosep bodword haue we broght, Þat ȝe presond to ȝere. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 391 To ȝere, horno; hornus, hornotinus. 1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy ii. i. sig. D3 I haue heard of none to yeare. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. ii. 2 Betty hath brought more Goods into our Lock to-year than any five of the Gang. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) at To ‘We've a famous clip to year’, that is, this year. 1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. v. 64 Not but what he's been shook a little to-year about this. 1910 W. Raymond Eng. Country Life (1911) xxxv. 432 I han't a-lost a lamb to year as yet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.adj.OE |
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