单词 | trysting |
释义 | trystingn. The action of tryst v.; a tryst. under trysting = under tryst or agreement. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > arrangement for a meeting tryst1487 trysting1633 assignation1660 assignment1670 1633 W. Struther True Happines 79 Since he keepeth both time and place of trysting, let us not be so ingrate as not to meet with him. 1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) 514 After some trysting, and intermediat parleying. 1640 R. Baillie Let. 2 Dec. (1841) I. 276 A declaration..that our trysting there [i.e. in London] was no submission to the Inglish Parliament. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 337 The committee of Estaites..directit him..to hold the Marques wnder trysting whill thay sould raiss wp forces to go vpone him. 1832 Mrs. Carlyle in Lett. & Mem. (1903) I. 42 I was fatigued enough by the journey home; still more by the trysting that awaited me here. Compounds General attributive. trysting day n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [noun] > an appointed or fixed time, day, or date tidea900 stemOE stevena1225 term?c1225 dayc1300 term dayc1300 stagea1325 hourc1380 setnessa1400 tryst1488 journeyc1500 big day1827 trysting day1842 1842 T. B. Macaulay Horatius i By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day. trysting ground n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] > place of meeting or assembly > appointed tristc1330 tryst1487 tristrea1500 rendezvous1594 trysting place1633 trysting ground1838 tryst-place1851 1838 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl xx The customary..trysting ground for personal combats. 1898 F. M. Müller Auld Lang Syne 195 [In] the Thirty Years' War we find Anhalt the constant trysting ground of the two parties. trysting place n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] > place of meeting or assembly > appointed tristc1330 tryst1487 tristrea1500 rendezvous1594 trysting place1633 trysting ground1838 tryst-place1851 1633 W. Struther True Happines 115 Wee come to the Sanctuarie..the Lords trysting place. 1724 Guthrie's Christian's Great Interest (rev. ed.) ii. viii. 223 A fit Trysting-place for God and Men to meet into. 1800 W. Scott Eve St. John 10 At our trysting place, for a certain space, I must wander to and fro. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 426 Those who had horses seem to have reached the same trysting-place by land. trysting stile n. ΚΠ 1858 E. Capern Ballads & Songs (1859) 100 Meet me..by the trysting stile. trysting thorn n. ΚΠ 1793 R. Burns in G. Thomson Sel. Coll. Orig. Sc. Airs I. i. 22 I past the mill, and trysting thorn, Where Nancy aft I courted. trysting tree n. ΚΠ 1802 W. Scott Reiver's Wedding 50 When he came to Falsehope glen, Beneath the trysting-tree. 1806 Chron. in Ann. Reg. (1808) 385/2 A hurricane..destroyed the famous elm tree, which had existed for ages, on the banks of the Teviot, and was known by the name of the Trysting Tree. 1872 J. G. Holland Marble Prophecy 45 I await her in the dewy gloom Of the old trysting tree. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2019). > as lemmasˈtrysting ˈtrysting adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [adjective] > by agreement trysting1878 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native i. ix, in Belgravia Mar. 9 The conversation of the trysting pair could not be overheard. < n.1633 as lemmas |
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