| 释义 |
steepy, a. Obs. exc. arch.|ˈstiːpɪ|
Also 6 stipye, ste(i)pie, 7 steepie, ? steppie.
[f. steep a. + -y.]
Steep; full of steep places; precipitous.
1565Stapleton tr. Bede's Hist. Ch. Eng. 147 Stipye and craggie hylles. c1590Marlowe's Faustus (1616) 1268 (Brooke) This Traytor flies vnto some steepie rocke. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 52 A steepie and rockie dale. 1735Somerville Chase iii. 98 So Ships in Winter-Seas now sliding sink Adown the steepy Wave. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. vi. 30 The banks of rivers, or steepy sea⁓shores. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. xxii, Through Calpe's straits survey the steepy shore. 1872Howells Wedd. Journ. (1892) 285 That huge rock, base and steepy flank and crest.
Comb.1638R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. i. (1818) 33 Thence to Kighley, where are mountaines Steepy-threatning. 1672Dryden 2nd Pt. Conq. Granada iii. iv. 130, I..found th' eternal fence so steepy high.
b. fig.
1600Shakes. Sonn. lxiii. 5 When his youthfull morne Hath trauaild on to Ages steepie night. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xix. 36 The leape from an ill beeing, vnto a not beeing is not so dangerous or steepie; as it is from a delightfull and flowrishing beeing, vnto a painefull and sorrowfull condition. a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 216 Because the limits are obscure, and steepy, and slippery, and narrow. 1616Drummond of Hawthornden Sonn. ‘Ah burning Thoughts’, What though I trace not right Heauens steppie Wayes?
c. of movement.
1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. 860 Now take thy steepy flight from Heav'n, and see If thou canst find on Earth another He. 1697― æneis iii. 670 The Night..view'd with equal Face Her steepy rise, and her declining Race. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 1 Large currents flow from different parts of the main ridge, and continue their winding steepy courses to the sea. |