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twice-told, a. (adv.)
[See tell v. 21, 2.]
1. Counted or reckoned twice; twice as much as, twice (in amount). (Usually following the word or phrase qualified.) † In quot. 1579 advb. = in a twofold degree, doubly.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas i. xiv. (MS. Bodl. 263) 64/1 Vpon my fyngirs fyue twies told I hadde ryngis. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 472/2 We see also yt we are guiltie twise tolde. 1678Bunyan Pilgr. i. 195 An hundred times, twice told. 1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 66 Twice-told the period spent on stubborn Troy, Court-favour, yet untaken, I besiege.
2. Narrated or related twice.
1595Shakes. John iii. iv. 108 Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. 1725Pope Odyssey xii. 538 What so tedious as a twice-told tale? 1826F. Reynolds Life & Times I. 94, I will now merely state, (to avoid a twice told tale,) that we arrived. 1837Hawthorne (title) Twice-Told Tales. |