单词 | daylong |
释义 | daylongadj.adv. rare before 19th cent. A. adj. That lasts or continues all day.Apparently unattested in Middle English. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adjective] > occupying one day daylongeOE diurnec1386 diurnalc1430 one-day1583 nuchthemerinal1677 all-day1794 day-to-day1870 intra-day1972 eOE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 422) ii. 499 Swa ðonne feohteð se feond on feower gecynd, oððæt he gewendeð on ða wyrsan hand deofles dædum dæglongne fyrst, and ðæs willan wyrcð ðe hine on woh spaneð. 1597 G. Markham tr. G. Pétau de Maulette Deuoreux lxxiv. f. 13 Suffice it; I, as silly Palmers vse, That seeke to shorten day-long laboring way, Mongst rude discourses, often-times infuse The Acts of Kings and Princes, and alay Labour with labour. 1843 H. W. Herbert Marmaduke Wyvil iv. 19 As she saw him settle down again into his soulless musings, she too would relapse into her daylong slumbers. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 104 His weary daylong chirping. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 195 As firm as rocks that stand The day-long beating of the sea. 1954 Van Wert (Ohio) Times-Bull. 5 Oct. 5/7 (advt.) Baby-doll dress. Perfect for day-long wear! 2012 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. (Late ed.) (Arts & Leisure section) 14/3 Three actors will perform the same 90-minute play repeatedly in a daylong continuous loop. B. adv. For the whole day; all through the day. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [adverb] > all day (all) the long day (also night, etc.)c1275 from sun to suna1500 from morn to (also till) eve (or night)1598 daylong1614 1614 A. Jackson Sorrowes Lenitiue sig. A3v A day-long-labouring Husband-man, That with heart-fatting ioy doth feast his eyes, To see his full-ear'd Corne..Blowne on to ripenesse. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 187 He mounted..And daylong rode on from the north. 1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove xxvi. 181 The fire was fed daylong and never went out at night. 2008 Poetry Rev. Winter 27 Tell me again the stories you tell a child when the season begins and the hunters are out on the moor, daylong, out in the rain and the fabric of air. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.eOE |
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