单词 | drop-meal |
释义 | † drop-mealadv. Obsolete. a. In drops, drop by drop. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [adverb] drop-mealc1000 distillatively1657 stillatitiously1822 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adverb] > in separated pieces > by pieces or piecemeal > drop by drop drop-mealc1000 dropping-meal1398 droppinglyc1400 stillatim1668 dropwise1673 guttatim1694 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 508 Yrnþ dropmælum swiðe hluttor wæter. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 207 Inhire heldeð naut ane dropemel. Ach flowinde ȝeotteð wellen of his graces. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xi. vii. 393 Rayne fallyth..thenne and thenne and dropmele. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Acts xii. 8) As the cloud dissolves drop-meal upon the earth. b. Often with by: = dropling n. Hence as noun. ΚΠ 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 1 These good things that are as by dropmeale poured into vs from heauen. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. viii. ii. 58 To them that make their water by dropmeales. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 40 Physicians vse to instill the juice of the Radish by drop-meale into the eares. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 567 Which..can not voide his water but by drops-meale. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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