单词 | whenso |
释义 | whensoadv.conj.ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > when or at the time that thoc893 then971 whenOE theOE whensoc1175 whenas1423 while as1625 wen1893 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 85 In þe deie of liureisun hwense god almihtin wule windwin þet er wes iþorschen. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 210 Ȝe ȝet moten changin hwen se ȝe eauer wulleð. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7511 Weonne so [c1300 Otho wane] ich beo uorð-faren Hengest eow wul makien kare. 1423 Kingis Quair cxviii Quhen so my teris dropen on the ground,..the lytill birdis smale Styntith thaire song. 1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 522 Quhen swa this cruell murthour wes committit,..nevir ceissit he of his wickit..pretense. 2. = whenever conj. 1. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > at any time or whenever everOE onceOE whensoc1175 whenc1200 whensoeverc1320 wheneverc1380 whensomevera1425 soever1517 still asa1656 anytime1822 anywhen1834 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1466 Whann se þu forrȝifesst tuss. Þin wraþþe. & ec þin wræche Aȝȝ þanne lakesst tu þin godd. Gastlike i þine þæwess. c1400 Rule St. Benet (verse) 861 When so we ȝern ony thing Þat may fall vnto flesch likyng, Thinke we god waites vs weterly! c1425 Cast. Persev. 2542 in Macro Plays 153 It is good, whon-so þe wynde blowe, A man to haue sum-what of his owe. 1473 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 178 He sal haue the fredome of hoslary quhenswa at it be sufficiand. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 829 Whenso loue of letters did inspire Their gentle wits. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 216 Whenso that battle seems going against us, remember the legend. 1879 S. H. Butcher & A. Lang tr. Homer Odyssey iii. 40 Phrontis,..who excelled the tribes of men in piloting a ship, whenso the storm winds were hurrying by. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < adv.conj.c1175 |
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