单词 | amaister |
释义 | † amaisterv. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To have or get mastery over (someone or something); to subdue; to compel or persuade (a person) to do something. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] wieldOE i-weldeOE onwaldOE overwieldlOE amaistera1250 underlaya1300 daunt1303 underbringc1320 yoke?c1335 undercasta1340 afaitec1350 faite1362 subjecta1382 to make subjectc1384 distraina1400 underlouta1400 underthewa1400 underset1422 subjectc1460 subjuge?1473 submise?1473 dompt1480 suppedit?1483 to keep under1486 abandon1487 bandon?a1500 suppeditatec1545 to bring under1563 reduce1569 assubject1579 overpower1597 envassal1606 assubjugate1609 vassal1612 subact1619 vassalize1647 vassalate1659 to school down1818 to ride herd on (also over)1895 a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 127 Schal flesches fondunge..ameistre [c1230 Corpus meistrin; Fr. amestrunt] ðe neuer. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 129 Þe guode leche þet amaystreþ his ziknesse. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. ii. l. 153 We haue Mede amaistried with owre mery speche. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. ix. l. 221 How ich myghte a-maistren [A text c1390 Vernon A-Maystren, B text c1400 Laud 581 amaistrien] hem to louye and laboure For here lyflode. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 12 Disese shal no more hereafter thee amaistry. 2. transitive. English regional (Shropshire). To teach (someone or something). ΚΠ 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 304 I'll amaister it to you I insert this word on the single authority of a man from the neighbourhood of Cleobury Mgortimer, who assured me that he had repeatedly heard it in the above sense. 1876 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) An old man near Leintwardine, speaking of his schoolmaster, said ‘'E used to amaister me, Sir.’ Now rarely heard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.a1250 |
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