单词 | discerp |
释义 | discerpv. Now rare. 1. transitive. To pull apart or tear to pieces; to divide into parts or pieces. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > tear [verb (transitive)] > tear apart to-loukc890 to-braidc893 to-tearc893 to-teec893 to-rendc950 to-breakc1200 to-tugc1220 to-lima1225 rivea1250 to-drawa1250 to-tosea1250 drawa1300 rendc1300 to-rit13.. to-rivec1300 to-tusec1300 rakea1325 renta1325 to-pullc1330 to-tightc1330 tirec1374 halea1398 lacerate?a1425 to-renta1425 yryve1426 raga1450 to pull to (or in) piecesc1450 ravec1450 discerp1483 pluck1526 rip1530 decerp1531 rift1534 dilaniate1535 rochec1540 rack1549 teasea1550 berend1577 distract1585 ream1587 distrain1590 unrive1592 unseam1592 outrive1598 divulse1602 dilacerate1604 harrow1604 tatter1608 mammocka1616 uprentc1620 divell1628 divellicate1638 seam-rend1647 proscind1659 skail1768 screeda1785 spret1832 to tear to shreds1837 ribbon1897 1483 tr. Adam of Eynsham Reuelation xxi The cruelle..wodnes of wykyd spirytys the whiche al to bete me discerpte me..and al to brend me. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 28 Being once so discerped [they] can neuer after neither in applying their owne parts togither, neither yet in fastning..them to any body..reuiue and quicken againe. 1606 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Nouember sig. C3 Not man-like to kill, but beast-like to discerpe, and teare parcell meale, the bodies of such personages. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iv. xxxiii. 385 This Horn..is the Roman Empire discerped into so many Kingdoms. 1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 182 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. It is no derogation to his Omnipotence that he cannot discerp a Spirit once created. 1769 W. Worthington Evid. Christianity deduced from Facts II. 393 Its body was discerped and dismembered. 1819 Spirit of Eng. Mag. 4 413/2 When I told this anecdote to Dr. Percy, he was much diverted, and observed, ‘Aye, aye; and yet, in spite of all his tea-bibbing, the gigantic Johnson could have seized with both hands upon the puny Hanway, and discerped him.’ 1845 C. Hood Gonzalvo iii. 81 The throne discerped, and majesty deposed, His own wealth forfeit, and his life exposed! 1966 J. H. Finley Four Stages of Greek Thought i. 3 I am interested rather in an outgazing bent of mind that sees things exactly, each for itself, and seems innocent of the idea that thought discerps and colors reality. 2. transitive. To tear or cut off; to sever or separate (a part) from a whole. Chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] to-twemec893 sunderOE asunderOE shedOE dealOE shill1049 skillc1175 to-twinc1175 twinc1230 disseverc1250 depart1297 slita1300 to-throwc1315 parta1325 drevec1325 devisec1330 dividec1374 sever1382 unknit?a1425 divorce1430 separea1450 separate?a1475 untine1496 to put apart1530 discussa1542 deceper1547 disseparate1550 apart1563 unjoint1565 shoal1571 divisionatea1586 single1587 dispart1590 descide1598 disassociate1598 distract1600 dissolve1605 discriminate1615 dissociate1623 discerpa1628 discind1640 dissunder1642 distinguish1648 severize1649 unstring1674 skaila1833 cleave1873 dirempt1885 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off becarveOE carvec1000 hewc1000 shredc1275 cuta1300 chapc1325 cleavec1330 off-shearc1330 withscore1340 to cut offc1380 colea1400 slivea1400 to score awayc1400 abscisea1500 discidea1513 sharea1529 off-trenchc1530 off-hewc1540 pare1549 detrench1553 slice?1560 detrunk1566 sneck1578 resect1579 shred1580 curtail1594 off-chop1594 lop?1602 disbranch1608 abscind1610 snip1611 circumcise1613 desecate1623 discerpa1628 amputate1638 absciss1639 prescind1640 notch1820 a1628 J. Clare Converted Jew (1630) ii. 115 These few confessions here following; which for breuity I haue discerped out of the great store of like acknowledgments. 1655 H. More Antidote Atheism (1662) 173 There is no means..to discerp or separate any one ray of this Orbe, and keep it apart by it self. 1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. iii. 354 We come to shew what a kind of Existence it was, that Pythagoras and Plato afforded to the Soul, when it had rejoined that universal Substance, from which it was discerped. 1778 E. Apthorp Lett. Prevalence Christianity 311 His principle was, that the human soul, discerped from the soul of the universe, after death was re-fused into the parent-substance. 1845 T. Cooper Purgatory of Suicides iv. xxvi. 135 The soul Lived consciously discerpt from her clay shrine. 1869 S. Baring-Gould Origin Relig. Belief I. xii. 248 Infinite space may have parts in it discerped, and the interval subdivided. 1919 Rep. Supreme Court Missouri 279 630 They were entitled to discerp the value of the property in Missouri from that of the other property of which it was a part. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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