单词 | day-spring |
释义 | day-springn. In later use chiefly poetic or figurative. Dawn, daybreak.In figurative use, equivalent to dawn n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun] aristc825 dawingc900 dayeOE day-rimOE day-redOE mornOE lightOE lightingOE dawning1297 day-rowa1300 grekinga1300 uprista1300 dayninga1325 uprisingc1330 sun arisingc1350 springc1380 springingc1380 day-springa1382 morrowingc1384 dayingc1400 daylighta1425 upspring1471 aurora1483 sky1515 orienta1522 breaking of the day1523 daybreak1530 day-peep1530 morrow dayc1530 peep of the morning1530 prick of the day?1533 morning1535 day-breaking1565 creek1567 sunup1572 breach of the day1579 break of day or morn1584 peep of day1587 uprise1594 dawna1616 day-dawn1616 peep of dawn1751 strike of day1790 skreigh1802 sunbreak1822 day-daw1823 screech1829 dayclean1835 sun dawn1835 first light1838 morning-red1843 piccaninny sun1846 piccaninny daylightc1860 gloaming1873 glooming1877 sparrow-fart1886 crack1887 sun-spring1900 piccaninny dawn1936 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxxviii. 12 Whether..thou..hast shewid to the dai spring [L. aurorae] his place. a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) 3574 (MED) Ryȝt in þe day spryng [c1400 Laud dayes sprynge] Tholomeus con on heom flyng. a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) 4252 Day spryg [c1400 Laud day-spryngynge] is iolyf tide. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke i. f. lxxiiij Wher with hath visited vs the daye springe from an hye. 1555 R. Eden Of North Regions in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 264v The day sprynge or dawnynge of the daye gyueth a certeyne lyght before the rysinge of the soonne. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. ix. 205/2 The Romans in this Iland, whose Deputies at the day-spring almost of Christianitie were conuerted. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 11 The breath of Heav'n fresh-blowing, pure and sweet, With day-spring born. View more context for this quotation 1741 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 321 I have lived in happier Times in the Day-Spring of the Revolution. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. i. 588 The day-spring's daughter rosy palm'd. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 181 The driver declared that he must wait for the day-spring, before he could proceed another step. 1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 4 The thousand years and more which separated the Council of Nice from the dayspring of the Reformation. 1926 C. Day Lewis in Oxf. Poetry 20 In valour's day-spring. 1998 M. M. Mahood Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare vi. 114 The March dawn in Rome is the dayspring of republican hopes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382 |
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