| 释义 |
ˈthunderlight arch.
[Alteration of the earlier thunder-layt, -leit (see above) by substitution of light for leit. The earlier form occurs in some of the Chaucer MSS.]
Light of thunder, lightning.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. met. iv. 7 (MS. Camb. I i. 3. 21) Ne the wey of thonderlyht [Add. MS. þonder lyȝt; MS. Camb. I i. i. 38 thonder leit; ed. 1532 thonder leyte] þat is wont to smyten heye towres, ne shal not moeue þat man. c1386― Pars. T. ⁋765 (Camb. MS.) After that he brente .v. ceteis with thundyr liȝth [v.rr. liȝt, lyht, lyght, lighte, Ellesm. leyt, Harl. layt].
1815L. Hunt Feast of Poets, etc. 149 What shall move his placid might? Not the headlong thunderlight. 1834Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes (1844) 59 Under such a sky—Thus grave, thus streaked with thunderlight. |