| 释义 |
skyey, a.|ˈskaɪɪ|
Also 7 skyie, 8–9 skiey.
[f. sky n.1 + -ey.]
1. Of or pertaining to the sky; emanating from the sky:
a. In the phr. skyey influence(s), due to Shakespeare.
α1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 9 A breath thou art, Seruile to all the skyie-influences. 1799Spirit Public Jrnls. III. 129 Subject to the ‘skiey influences’. 1832Lytton Eugene Aram iii. ii, The skiey influences seem to tincture the animal life with their own..spirit of change. 1851Illustr. Lond. News 18 Oct. 491/3 The skiey influences were decidedly sympathetic.
β1820Scott Monast. xix, Upon whose complexion the ‘skyey influences’..had blended the red and white into the purely nut-brown hue. 1847Miller First Impr. Eng. viii. (1857) 123, I was eager to ascertain whether it had not stood its testing century better under the skyey influences. 1882C. F. Keary Prim. Belief 128 Almost all the Vedic hymns are concerned with the skyey influences.
b. In other contexts. Also, lofty.
α1793Coleridge Lines on Autumn. Evening 74 The skiey deluge, and white lightnings glare. 1814Cary Dante, Purg. iii. 28 In the skiey element One ray obstructs not other. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche Aug. xxviii, From their skiey haunt Fell to their feast the great birds bald and gaunt.
β1818Keats Endym. iv. 558 No charm Could lift Endymion's head, or he had view'd A skyey mask. 1826H. N. Coleridge Six Months in W. Ind. (1832) 167 The mountains..are of skyey height. 1887T. Hardy Woodlanders I. xiii. 234 Beside him sat Marty, also straining her eyes towards the skyey field of his operations.
2. Resembling the sky in colour; azure.
1816Southey Lay of Laureate lxx, A virgin clad in skiey blue. a1851Moir Poems (1852) II. 305 Skiey robes, The tincture of the young Year's finest blue. 1884Harper's Mag. Aug. 392/1 The soft skyey tone of the turquoise.
Comb.1797Waldron Virg. Queen iv. i, Apt to soil our skiey-tinctur'd wings. |