单词 | wayfering |
释义 | † wayferingadj. Obsolete. = wayfaring adj. Esp. in wayfering man.Later examples may perhaps represent a typographical error for wayfaring. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [adjective] > by road wayferingOE wayfaringOE road-faring1883 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) x. 264 Dysig bið se weigferenda man, se ðe nymð þone smeðan weig þe hine mislæt. OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 21 & genyddon sumne wegferendne [L. praetereuntem] Simonem Cireneum cumende of þam tune. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 158 Heo i uindeð iwis sein iulianes in, þet weiuerinde men ȝeorne secheð. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 39 Robberes and kueade herberȝeres þet berobbeþ þe pilgrimes an þe marchons and oþre wayuerindemen. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 10510 Be a man yn sykenes, or yn prysoun, weyferyng, or yn temptacyun. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 79 Þe wayferande frekez, on fote & on hors,..Laþez hem alle luflyly to lenge at my fest. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 348 In þis epistle techiþ Poul how wey-ferynge men þat lyven here shulden go þe streiȝt wey þat lediþ men to þe blisse of hevene. 1654 J. Naylor in R. Farnworth To you called Baptists 7 The way of holiness, which the unclean shall not pass over, but it shall be for the wayfering man, and fools shall not err therein. 1674 G. Coles Theophilus & Philodoxus iii. 89 Now to draw three waifering Men turning in to Abraham's Tent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.OE |
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