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单词 abysm
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abysmn.

Brit. /əˈbɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /əˈbɪzəm/
Forms:

α. Middle English–1600s abime, Middle English–1600s abyme, 1500s abhyme.

β. Middle English–1600s abysme, Middle English–1600s abisme, 1500s–1600s abism, 1600s obism, 1700s– abysm.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French abysme.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French abisme, abime, abysme (French abîme ) deep gulf, hell, marine depths (12th cent. in Old French) < classical Latin abyssus abyss n., probably reflecting an unattested post-classical Latin variant *abismus , of uncertain and disputed origin; perhaps < *abyssimus , by haplology < *abyssissimus , a superlative form; or perhaps showing alteration after words in -ismus -ism suffix. Compare Old Occitan abisme , Catalan abisme (13th cent.), Spanish abismo (13th cent.), Portuguese abismo (14th cent.). Compare abyss n. (and foreign-language forms cited at that entry), abysmus n.In early use the -s- was probably often silent in β. forms; compare the rhyme with time as late as quot. ?1614 at sense 2. The later loss of the α. forms and the dominance of both the spelling abysm and the pronunciation /əˈbɪz(ə)m/ probably reflects the influence of classical Latin abyssus abyss n.
1.
a. = abyss n. 1c. Now archaic and rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > as pit or abyss
hell pitOE
pitOE
abysmc1350
hell-holec1400
abyssc1460
bisme1483
pota1500
barathrum?1510
bottomless pit1526
limbo-lake1558
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [noun] > that which lies beneath
abysmc1350
abyssc1460
c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 68 By þe sterre þat fel from heuene ben bitokned þe fendes þat opened þe pytt off þe Abisme.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 214 Dryȝten wyth his dere dom hym [sc.the fiend] drof to þe abyme.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 963 (MED) Þe grete barrez of þe abyme he barst up at onez.
c1450 J. Lydgate Ballade Our Lady (Sloane) l. 136 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 260 Columpne and base up-beryng from abyme.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xi. sig. Dj I desire and wysshe that erste thabysme of thobscure erthe swolowe me.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lviii Somtyme he punyssheth with infernall abhyme.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xviii. sig. Ciii The abysme [printed absyine] and swalowe of the earth.
1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints sig. Fv Brutish Ignorance, ycrept..Out of dredd darknes of the deep Abysme.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 149 When my good Starres..Haue empty left their Orbes, and shot their Fires Into th' Abisme of hell. View more context for this quotation
1663 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (new ed.) xli. 162 The gluttonous Serpent that lived in the profound Obism of the house of smoak.
1857 C. Heavysege Saul v. iv. 305 Roll, roll away, thou stygian smoke, And let me into the abysm look.
1922 H. L'A. Fausset Keats ix. 83 The great poet has not truly realised himself until he can see heaven in the abysm of hell itself.
1947 J. V. Cunningham Judge Is Fury 31 There is no moral strife—None falls in the abysm.
b. = abyss n. 1b Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > deep place or part > imaginary, under earth
abysmc1350
abyssa1398
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) 182 (MED) Þe ernand water stode; þe abimes [L. abyssi] ben gadered to-gidres a-middes þe see.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 363 Þen bolned þe abyme, and bonkez con ryse.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations in Sibylline Leaves 286 Or if the Greenland Wizard in strange trance Pierces the untravelled realms of Ocean's bed..Over the abysm.
2. Any deep immeasurable space; a profound chasm or gulf. Also figurative. Cf. abyss n. 2, 3.In later usage frequently used with conscious allusion to quot. a1616.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > abyss
swallowa700
deepnessa1000
deep1393
abysmc1475
dungeonc1475
depth1523
gulfa1533
downfall1542
hell-kettle1577
abysmus1611
vorago1654
under-abyss1662
purgatory1766
fosse1805
jaw-hole1840
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [noun] > great or considerable depth > deep place, part, or thing
piteOE
bottomOE
swallowa1100
profundity?a1425
abysmc1475
bisme1483
gulfa1533
abyss1538
fathom1608
profound1640
a well of a1843
subterranean1912
the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > deep place or part
swallowa700
deepnessa1000
deepOE
swallowa1100
depth1382
gulfc1400
profound?a1425
abysm?1614
c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 219 (MED) The grete expenses that he dooth for our needys..is more like a verey abisme whereynne all synketh and wasteth.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. cclxxxxi/1 His Jugemens be as a grete & a depe abysme.
?1614 W. Drummond Song: It Autumne was in Poems Feele such a case, as one whom some Abisme [in Wks. (1711) 13 printed Abime] Of the depth Ocean kept had all his Time.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 50 What seest thou els In the dark-backward and Abisme of Time?
1653 H. Cogan tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. 95 This river..is swallowed up in an abysme or overture of the earth.
1715 tr. Abp. Cambray Pastoral Let. 89 The Soul..is plunged and swallowed up in the Abysm of the Divinity.
1798 T. J. Mathias Odes ii. 13 Now the spirit's plastic might, Brooding..O'er the dusk abysm of night, Bids creation cease to sleep!
1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 71 And down some swart abysm he had gone, Had not a heavenly guide benignant led.
1873 D. Masson Drummond of Hawthornden xi. 223 He flung himself bodily into the abysm.
1931 W. S. Maugham Six Stories Written First Person 193 The first steps in his wonderful career..are lost in the dark abysm of time.
1948 J. T. Flexner J. S. Copley (rev. ed.) ix. 110 To the left was the abysm of purely social painting; to the right the chasm of imaginative imitations of Raphael.
2009 N. Baker Anthologist xiv. 208 He's saying what everybody has always said from the abysm of time.

Compounds

abysm-birth n. Obsolete birth from the primal abyss.
ΚΠ
1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 106 The abysm-birth of elements.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

abysmv.

Forms: 1600s abisme, 1700s abyme.
Origin: A borrowing from French, combined with an English element; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: abysm n., French abysmer.
Etymology: < abysm n., after French abîmer, †abysmer (13th cent. in Old French). Compare slightly earlier abyss v.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To sink into or form an abyss, to engulf.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > into the earth or an abyss
divea1225
abysm1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Abysmer, to Abisme or ingulph.
c1702 Bk. Sc. Pasquils (1868) 408 Abym'd in deepest gulfs of blackest infamie.

Derivatives

abysming adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [adjective] > very
groundlessc888
bottomlessc1400
profound?a1425
neal1574
soundlessc1595
insoundable1602
gulfy1607
unbottomed1615
depthless1619
unsoundable1629
chin-deep1634
fathomless1638
abysming1644
unfounded1648
abysmal1656
plumbless1665
unfathomablea1676
chasmy1793
fathom-deep1835
plummetlessc1861
chasmal1871
abyssal1903
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. Concl. 464 To ayme att the discouery of these abisming depths.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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