| 单词 | upon the gape |
| 释义 | > as lemmasupon the gape b. figurative. A state of eagerness or wonder: also in phrase upon the gape. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [adjective] > eagerly upon the gape1712 breathless1768 tiptoed1819 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [noun] > state of wonder wonderc1290 ecstasyc1384 mazednessc1395 study?1397 mazec1425 wonderfulness1532 wonderment1535 gape1712 astoundment1810 marvelment1823 jouissance1968 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 452. ¶3 The Mind is not here kept in a perpetual Gape after Knowledge. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 24. 158 The chief skill is to keep them still upon the Gape. 1787 A. Young Jrnl. 26 May in Trav. France (1792) i. 8 I have been upon the full silly gape to find out things that I had not found before. < as lemmas |
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