dyingn.

Brit.

/ˈdʌɪɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈdaɪɪŋ/

Forms: see die v.¹

Etymology: < die v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

The action of die v.¹

a. Ceasing to live, expiring, decease, death.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun]

hensithOE

qualmOE

bale-sithea1000

endingc1000

fallOE

forthsitheOE

soulingOE

life's endOE

deathOE

hethensithc1200

last end?c1225

forthfarec1275

dying1297

finec1300

partingc1300

endc1305

deceasec1330

departc1330

starving1340

passingc1350

latter enda1382

obita1382

perishingc1384

carrion1387

departing1388

finishmentc1400

trespassement14..

passing forthc1410

sesse1417

cess1419

fininga1425

resolutiona1425

departisona1450

passagea1450

departmentc1450

consummation?a1475

dormition1483

debt to (also of) naturea1513

dissolutionc1522

expirationa1530

funeral?a1534

change1543

departure1558

last change1574

transmigration1576

dissolving1577

shaking of the sheets?1577

departance1579

deceasure1580

mortality1582

deceasing1591

waftage1592

launching1599

quietus1603

doom1609

expire1612

expiring1612

period1613

defunctiona1616

Lethea1616

fail1623

dismissiona1631

set1635

passa1645

disanimation1646

suffering1651

abition1656

Passovera1662

latter (last) end1670

finis1682

exitus1706

perch1722

demission1735

demise1753

translation1760

transit1764

dropping1768

expiry1790

departal1823

finish1826

homegoing1866

the last (also final, great) round-up1879

snuffing1922

fade-out1924

thirty1929

appointment in Samarra1934

dirt nap1981

big chill1987

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 485 Hunger & deiinge of men.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cvi. 20 He toke þaim out of þaire diyngis.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. iv. 10 And we all wayes beare in oure bodyes the dyinge of the Lorde Iesus.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §448 The Dying, in the Winter, of the Roots or Plants that are Annual.

1893 T. H. Huxley Evol. & Ethics 9 Life seems not worth living except to escape the bore of dying.

b. transferred and figurative. See die v.¹ Also with adverbs dying-back: see to die back at die v.¹ Phrasal verbs, die-back n.

ΚΠ

1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 413 At the dying of the Stream, it is often two Feet higher than the Main Tide.

1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. i. 101 The gradual dying away of a motion.

1884 J. A. H. Murray in 13th Addr. Philol. Soc. 7 The history of the dying-out of Cornish.

1921 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Sept. 574/3 Its silviculture is very difficult, more especially the question of the dying-back of its seedlings.

1959 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 84 483 Many plants..suffer some dying back of their top growth.

2. attributive. Of, belonging to, or relating to dying or death, as dying bed, dying command, dying day, dying declaration, dying fit, dying groan, dying prayer, dying shriek, dying time, dying tree, dying wish, dying word, etc. Cf. death n. Compounds 1a(a) (In some of these, the verbal noun has come to be identified with the participial.adj.)

ΚΠ

1580 J. Stubbs in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 41 The glad tydings..half revived my wife almost in a dyeng bedd.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. I3 Dying feare through all her bodie spred.

1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 90 To have a sight of her sometime before their dying-dayes.

1620 F. Quarles Jonah (1638) 45 Like pinioned pris'ners at the dying tree.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 70. ¶8 The Scotch Earl falls; and with his dying Words encourages his men to revenge his Death.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 328 The sobs and dying shrieks Of harmless Nature.

1872 Wharton's Law Lexicon (ed. 5) 273/2 Death-bed or Dying Declarations are constantly admitted in evidence.

1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket Prol. 19 A dead man's dying wish should be of weight.

1897 N.E.D. at Dying Mod. I shall remember it to my dying day.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

dyingadj.

Etymology: < die v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdying.

That dies.

a. Departing from this life; at the point of death, moribund; mortal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] > dying

deadlyc893

swelting?a1400

dyingc1450

at (the) utterance1525

in (the, his) extremes1551

parting1562

Acherontic1597

ending1600

departing1603

on one's last legs1614

expiring1635

mortifying1649

morient1679

upon one's last stretch1680

gasping1681

à la mort1700

moribund1721

outward-bound1809

terminal1854

on the brink of the grave1872

defunctive1929

c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi ii. xii. 59 Know for certein þat þou must lede a dieng lif.

1563 N. Winȝet Wks. (1890) II. 63 He had leuir the dethe of the deand sinnar, than that he suld returne and leue.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 366 He..buries there his dying-liuing seeds.

1704 Ray in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 206 I look upon my self as a dying man.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Ginevra in Posthumous Poems (1824) 232 The dying violet.

1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) xii. 71 Oh! how much might be spared to the dying!

b. dying god n. (also with capitals) a god whose death is commemorated annually, typifying the seasonal death of vegetation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > dying annually

dying god1890

1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 206 If we ask why a dying god should be selected to take upon himself and carry away the sins and sorrows of the people, it may be suggested that in the practice of using the divinity as a scapegoat we have a combination of two customs which were at one time distinct and independent.

1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 207 These features become at once intelligible if we suppose that the Death was not merely the dying god of vegetation, but also a public scapegoat.

1911 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Dying God (ed. 3) III. (title) The dying god.

1912 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough (ed. 3) VII. i. 33 In that case..we should have to confess that Greece had what we may call its Good Friday and its Easter Sunday long before the events took place in Judaea which diffused these two annual commemorations of the Dying and Reviving God over a great part of the civilised world.

1947 C. S. Lewis Miracles xiv. 138 The records..show us a Person who enacts the part of the Dying God, but whose thoughts and words remain quite outside the circle of religious ideas to which the Dying God belongs.

1952 O. R. Gurney Hittites vii. 137 He may have been a typical ‘dying god’ like Adonis, Attis, and Osiris, representing the vital forces of nature which appear to die in winter and revive in the spring.

2. transferred and figurative. See die v.¹

ΚΠ

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vii. sig. S6 Another did the dying bronds repayre With yron tongs.

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ciiij As a dying coale reuiues with winde.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 133 Dying Murmurs of departing Tides.

1713 A. Pope Prol. to Cato in Guardian No. 33. Such Tears as Patriots shed for dying Laws.

1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xix, in Prometheus Unbound 222 As a brief insect dies with dying day.

Derivatives

ˈdyingly adv. in a dying manner, in dying.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adverb] > dying

adeatha1200

dyingly1435

expiringly1835

terminally1895

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 103 Deyngly I sal wax stronge.

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lix. 46 As both sides shall liue: euermore dyingly.

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Loves Pilgrimage iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Cccccccc3^v/1 I can dyingly, and boldly say I know not your dishonour.

1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 276 To sing faintly, sweetly, and as it were dyingly.

ˈdyingness n. dying or languishing quality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > liability to

ashc950

deathlinessOE

deadliness?c1225

mortalityc1400

mortalness1530

dyingness1700

sparrow-fall1946

1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 36 Tenderness becomes me best—A sort of a dyingness.

1955 E. Bowen World of Love v. 98 She could not suffer dyingness to usurp.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

单词	dying
释义	dyingn. Brit. /ˈdʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdaɪɪŋ/ Forms: see die v.¹ Etymology: < die v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. The action of die v.¹ 1. a. Ceasing to live, expiring, decease, death. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] hensithOE qualmOE bale-sithea1000 endingc1000 fallOE forthsitheOE soulingOE life's endOE deathOE hethensithc1200 last end?c1225 forthfarec1275 dying1297 finec1300 partingc1300 endc1305 deceasec1330 departc1330 starving1340 passingc1350 latter enda1382 obita1382 perishingc1384 carrion1387 departing1388 finishmentc1400 trespassement14.. passing forthc1410 sesse1417 cess1419 fininga1425 resolutiona1425 departisona1450 passagea1450 departmentc1450 consummation?a1475 dormition1483 debt to (also of) naturea1513 dissolutionc1522 expirationa1530 funeral?a1534 change1543 departure1558 last change1574 transmigration1576 dissolving1577 shaking of the sheets?1577 departance1579 deceasure1580 mortality1582 deceasing1591 waftage1592 launching1599 quietus1603 doom1609 expire1612 expiring1612 period1613 defunctiona1616 Lethea1616 fail1623 dismissiona1631 set1635 passa1645 disanimation1646 suffering1651 abition1656 Passovera1662 latter (last) end1670 finis1682 exitus1706 perch1722 demission1735 demise1753 translation1760 transit1764 dropping1768 expiry1790 departal1823 finish1826 homegoing1866 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 snuffing1922 fade-out1924 thirty1929 appointment in Samarra1934 dirt nap1981 big chill1987 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 485 Hunger & deiinge of men. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cvi. 20 He toke þaim out of þaire diyngis. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. iv. 10 And we all wayes beare in oure bodyes the dyinge of the Lorde Iesus. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §448 The Dying, in the Winter, of the Roots or Plants that are Annual. 1893 T. H. Huxley Evol. & Ethics 9 Life seems not worth living except to escape the bore of dying. b. transferred and figurative. See die v.¹ Also with adverbs dying-back: see to die back at die v.¹ Phrasal verbs, die-back n. ΚΠ 1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 413 At the dying of the Stream, it is often two Feet higher than the Main Tide. 1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. i. 101 The gradual dying away of a motion. 1884 J. A. H. Murray in 13th Addr. Philol. Soc. 7 The history of the dying-out of Cornish. 1921 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Sept. 574/3 Its silviculture is very difficult, more especially the question of the dying-back of its seedlings. 1959 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 84 483 Many plants..suffer some dying back of their top growth. 2. attributive. Of, belonging to, or relating to dying or death, as dying bed, dying command, dying day, dying declaration, dying fit, dying groan, dying prayer, dying shriek, dying time, dying tree, dying wish, dying word, etc. Cf. death n. Compounds 1a(a) (In some of these, the verbal noun has come to be identified with the participial.adj.) ΚΠ 1580 J. Stubbs in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 41 The glad tydings..half revived my wife almost in a dyeng bedd. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. I3 Dying feare through all her bodie spred. View more context for this quotation 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 90 To have a sight of her sometime before their dying-dayes. 1620 F. Quarles Jonah (1638) 45 Like pinioned pris'ners at the dying tree. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 70. ¶8 The Scotch Earl falls; and with his dying Words encourages his men to revenge his Death. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 328 The sobs and dying shrieks Of harmless Nature. 1872 Wharton's Law Lexicon (ed. 5) 273/2 Death-bed or Dying Declarations are constantly admitted in evidence. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket Prol. 19 A dead man's dying wish should be of weight. 1897 N.E.D. at Dying Mod. I shall remember it to my dying day. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2019). dyingadj. Etymology: < die v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdying. That dies. 1. a. Departing from this life; at the point of death, moribund; mortal. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] > dying deadlyc893 swelting?a1400 dyingc1450 at (the) utterance1525 in (the, his) extremes1551 parting1562 Acherontic1597 ending1600 departing1603 on one's last legs1614 expiring1635 mortifying1649 morient1679 upon one's last stretch1680 gasping1681 à la mort1700 moribund1721 outward-bound1809 terminal1854 on the brink of the grave1872 defunctive1929 c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi ii. xii. 59 Know for certein þat þou must lede a dieng lif. 1563 N. Winȝet Wks. (1890) II. 63 He had leuir the dethe of the deand sinnar, than that he suld returne and leue. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 366 He..buries there his dying-liuing seeds. 1704 Ray in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 206 I look upon my self as a dying man. a1822 P. B. Shelley Ginevra in Posthumous Poems (1824) 232 The dying violet. 1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) xii. 71 Oh! how much might be spared to the dying! b. dying god n. (also with capitals) a god whose death is commemorated annually, typifying the seasonal death of vegetation. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > dying annually dying god1890 1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 206 If we ask why a dying god should be selected to take upon himself and carry away the sins and sorrows of the people, it may be suggested that in the practice of using the divinity as a scapegoat we have a combination of two customs which were at one time distinct and independent. 1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 207 These features become at once intelligible if we suppose that the Death was not merely the dying god of vegetation, but also a public scapegoat. 1911 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Dying God (ed. 3) III. (title) The dying god. 1912 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough (ed. 3) VII. i. 33 In that case..we should have to confess that Greece had what we may call its Good Friday and its Easter Sunday long before the events took place in Judaea which diffused these two annual commemorations of the Dying and Reviving God over a great part of the civilised world. 1947 C. S. Lewis Miracles xiv. 138 The records..show us a Person who enacts the part of the Dying God, but whose thoughts and words remain quite outside the circle of religious ideas to which the Dying God belongs. 1952 O. R. Gurney Hittites vii. 137 He may have been a typical ‘dying god’ like Adonis, Attis, and Osiris, representing the vital forces of nature which appear to die in winter and revive in the spring. 2. transferred and figurative. See die v.¹ ΚΠ 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vii. sig. S6 Another did the dying bronds repayre With yron tongs. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ciiij As a dying coale reuiues with winde. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 133 Dying Murmurs of departing Tides. View more context for this quotation 1713 A. Pope Prol. to Cato in Guardian No. 33. Such Tears as Patriots shed for dying Laws. 1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xix, in Prometheus Unbound 222 As a brief insect dies with dying day. Derivatives ˈdyingly adv. in a dying manner, in dying. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adverb] > dying adeatha1200 dyingly1435 expiringly1835 terminally1895 R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 103 Deyngly I sal wax stronge. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lix. 46 As both sides shall liue: euermore dyingly. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Loves Pilgrimage iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Cccccccc3^v/1 I can dyingly, and boldly say I know not your dishonour. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 276 To sing faintly, sweetly, and as it were dyingly. ˈdyingness n. dying or languishing quality. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > liability to ashc950 deathlinessOE deadliness?c1225 mortalityc1400 mortalness1530 dyingness1700 sparrow-fall1946 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 36 Tenderness becomes me best—A sort of a dyingness. 1955 E. Bowen World of Love v. 98 She could not suffer dyingness to usurp. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1297adj.1435
随便看	take no stock in take note take notice take notice to take objection take occasion take occasion by the forehead take occasion by the forelock take occasion by the foretop take odds take odds of take of worth take off take off a person's hands take off an embargo take off guard take off his or her perch take off one's guard take off one's hat take off the books take off the table take offal to a bear take offence take on take on a life of its own