单词 | to-cleave |
释义 | † to-cleavev. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To cleave asunder; to split open; to divide or separate into two parts. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > cleave or split [verb (transitive)] to-cleavec888 cleavea1100 forcleavec1290 shidec1315 rivec1330 sheara1340 carvec1374 slivea1400 thrusche1483 porfend1490 splet1530 share?1566 spleet1585 splint1591 split1595 diverberate1609 fissure1656 spall1841 balkanize1942 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxiv. §11 gif þu þonne ænne stan toclifst, ne wyrð he næfre gegadrod swa he ær wæs. c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxv. 55 Þa nytenu sind clæne þe to-cleofað heora clawa. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14798 Drihhtin þær to clæf þe sæ. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 141 For þe heihe holigoste heuene shal to-cleue. c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 516 Þer weoren..harde scheldes to-clouen. 2. intransitive. To split or fall asunder. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > crack, split, or cleave chinea700 to-chinec725 cleavea1225 to-cleavec1275 rivec1330 to-slentc1380 to-sundera1393 cracka1400 rifta1400 chapc1420 crevec1450 break1486 slave?1523 chink1552 chop1576 coame1577 cone1584 slat1607 cleft1610 splita1625 checka1642 chicka1642 flaw1648 shale1712 vent1721 spalt1731 star1842 seam1880 tetter1911 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 961 Corineus..hine fusde mid mæine..þat his ban to-cluuen. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 246 (MS. B.) The erthe..Quaked..and al to-clief þe roche. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 296 The Schip toclef upon a roche. c1430 Hymns Virg. 41 His herte to-cloue, and he for-bleed. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xlvi. 3) The mountaines to clive from their rotes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < v.c888 |
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