| 释义 |
† ˈconques, -queis, v. Sc. Obs.
Also 6 -ys, -eas, 6–7 -ess, 7 -ise, -ish.
[Exact formation doubtful: possibly f. conquese n.; or, like it, from the F. pa. pple. conquis, -ise (cf. comprise, compromise); but it may have been from the earlier pa. pple. conquest, by treating the t as the native suffix and taking conques as the stem. Conquest was subseq. treated as its pa. pple. and pa. tense (as if = conques + t), and conformed to its variant spellings, as conqueist, -queast, -quist.]
1. trans. To get possession of, acquire as property, to gain, win.
c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. (1571) 29 To conques worldly good. 1556Lauder Dewties of Kingis 254 Rather than Conqueis gold in cartis. c1565Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 18 Greedy to conquess greater rents to his posterity. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 26 Albeit the husband hes litill heritage, and hes conquessed thereafter many lands. 1633W. Struther True Happines 9 In end they conquish vanitie of vanities. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 443 Our leel-come and lawfully conquessed joy. a1653Z. Boyd in Zion's Flowers (1855) Introd. 42 Man may conquise Lands to his Children.
2. To gain in war, conquer; to win (a battle); to vanquish.
c1470Henry Wallace ii. 358 Bot Wallace thriss this kynrik conquest haile. 1513Douglas æneis ix. v. 102 As victouris..To conquys Itale. 1549Compl. Scot. x. 85 Thai haue intendit veyris contrar scotland, in hope to conques it. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 78 So shall England be conqueast within a year. a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 521 When Hannibal went to conqueisse Italle.
Hence conquessed ppl. a., conquessing vbl. n.
1549Compl. Scot. Prol. 14 The conquessingis of realmis. |