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单词 adreigh
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adreighadv.

Brit. /əˈdriːx/, /əˈdriː/, U.S. /əˈdri/, /əˈdrix/, Scottish English /əˈdrix/
Forms:

α. Middle English adreȝ, Middle English adreigh, Middle English adrey, Middle English adrigh, Middle English adrygh, Middle English adryh; Scottish pre-1700 adreiche, pre-1700 adrich, pre-1700 adricht, pre-1700 1800s adreich, 1700s– adreigh.

β. Middle English o-dreghe, Middle English o drehi, Middle English odreih, Middle English o drey.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: on dreich at dreich n. 2.
Etymology: < on dreich at dreich n. 2, with reduction of the first element (compare a prep.1 and o, variant of on prep.).
Now rare (Scottish in later use).
At or to a distance; away, off. Cf. dreich n.
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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > at or to a distance
ferrenc888
farc900
longOE
afarc1300
yond13..
on length1340
alonga1382
adreigha1393
on dreicha1400
afar offc1400
far-aboutc1450
alengtha1500
distantlya1500
remote1589
remotely1609
yferrea1643
out of his (her, its, etc.) way1650
adistance1807
away1818
way1833
way1833
way off1836
way out1840
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 1330 (MED) The kinges dowhter..For pure abaissht drowh hire adryh.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 8778 He bad þam alle draw þam odreih [a1450 Lamb. o drey], ‘Þorgh strength ne com ȝe þam neih.’
a1450 York Plays (1885) 298 (MED) Wele sirs, drawes you a-drygh.
c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 47 Nane durst assaill except..stand adrich And at him dartis suak.
1614 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 265 Ever attending and following adreich vpone the said Johnne Mathow.
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. v. 16 He stood na lang a dreigh.
1832 A. Henderson Sc. Prov. 136 On painting and fighting look adreigh.
1932 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1993) I. 347 The stars adreigh mimic their drops.
1986 T. McManus in J. Hendry Chapman 44 169 Adreigh o ettlins vain and o plichts wid gar them fear.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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