单词 | worulde butan ende |
释义 | > as lemmas(on, to) worulde (a) butan ende (a) world (occasionally worlds) without end. In later use also hyperbolically: endlessly, eternally, for ever. In Old English (and early Middle English) also †(on, to) worulde (a) butan ende. [Frequently used to translate the post-classical Latin phrases saeculum saeculi , saecula saeculorum , etc. (see Phrases 2); especially with reference to the final words of the doxology (compare quot. 1549), after its post-classical Latin text sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum , lit. ‘as it was in the beginning, and now, and always, and in the ages of ages’, itself after Hellenistic Greek καὶ νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων , lit. ‘now as well as always and into the ages of the ages’. In a biblical context the phrase world without end is first attested translating post-classical Latin saeculum saeculi (and variants) in Coverdale's Bible (compare e.g. quot. 1535; also used in his introduction) and also appears in the King James Bible, but quot. lOE (which does not translate a known Latin original) shows that an equivalent phrase was used in one English version of the doxology at an earlier date. Quot. OE2 at Phrases 2c may represent a semantic link between the Latin and English phrases. Compare also Anglo-Norman secle sanz fin (c1240 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > eternity [phrase] > eternally or for ever (on, to) worulde (a) butan endeOE on (also in, þurh, geond) ealra worulda woruldOE (baith) heir and hyne1567 when (also till, until) hell freezes (over)1832 to hell and gone1863 OE Christ & Satan 314 Þær heo mid wuldorcyninge wunian moton awa to aldre, agan dreama dream mid drihtne gode, a to worulde a buton ende. lOE Prayer (Bodl. 180) in W. J. Sedgefield King Alfred's Boethius (1899) 149 Si þe lof & wylder nu & a a a to worulde buton æghwilcum ende. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 25 (MED) Þe lauerd..is feder and sune and hali gast, wuniende and rixlende on worlde a buten ende. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 139 Þeo þe hefden of erned þe pinen of helle world aa buten ende. c1300 St. Swithun (Harl.) l. 109 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 46 (MED) Þat vuel..ne schal no leng ileste Ac þu worst þerof hol and sound, wordle wiþouten ende. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 94/1 Many benefetes ben gyuen to thonour of our lord Jhū crist whiche is blessed world wythouten ende. Amen. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 25 I must nedys weynd, And to the dwill be thrall, Warld withoutten end. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xliv. 18 I wil remembre thy name from one generacion to another: therfore shal the people geue thankes vnto the, worlde without ende [L. in saeculum saeculi]. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Mattyns f. i As it was in the begynning, is now, and euer shallbe world without ende. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxi. 184 This man..thinks by talking world without end, to make good his integrity. 1753 in Life Ld. Hardwicke (1847) II. 499 Ld Chesterfield writes Worlds without End. 1823 Morning Chron. 30 May 4/2 ‘Why,’ quoth her friend, ‘do not they say every Sunday at church, “which was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end”?’ 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xiv. 22 My heart and soul and senses, World without end, are drowned. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon x. 213 She'd got it firmly into her head that to be married to her white-headed boy meant an untroubled elysium, world without end. 1991 J. Connor Distortions 95 And so it goes, world without end, amen. < as lemmas |
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