单词 | easten |
释义 | eastenadj. Chiefly Scottish. Now rare. 1. Of or relating to the east, eastern. Scottish in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [adjective] eastereOE easteOE eastwardeOE easterlyOE eastenlOE easterna1398 orientalc1425 orient?c1450 Levant1601 easternly?a1606 eastwardlya1613 Levantine1649 Eoan1820 eastwards1838 lOE Bounds (Sawyer 310) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 74 Of wice rycge ofdune on þone eastenan [prob. read easteran or easternan] stream. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13672 Eorles and dukes eke of æstene [perh. read æsterne] weorlde. 1731 H. Fielding Welsh Opera i. iv. 7 The Morning Shines o're the Easten [1762 Eastern] Hill. 1773 J. Hill Let. 11 May in G. Washington Papers (1994) Colonial Ser. IX. 231 I wanted to know..if we must have the Easten Shore Tob[acc]o on board of Capt. Peterson. 1908 J. Jakobsen Etymol. Ordbog Norrøne Sprog Shetland 141/1 Esten man, mand, boende østenfor [1928 A. Horsbøl tr. a man living east of a certain place]. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 120 Easten,..east; eastern. 1949 J. C. Rodger in Sc. National Dict. at Easten [Angus] Alang at the easten end ee toon. ΚΠ c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 48 The..cardinal vynd..callit subsolanus..quhilk the vulgaris callis estin vynd. 1568 Interlud Droichis Part Play l. 111 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 319 Now wt this last eistin wynd I am cum heir pardie. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) xi. xiv. f. 433, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Drift The eistyn wynd, with ane terrible drift blewe the sand..in the face of Constantinis armye. Compounds easten sea n. Scottish (Shetland) (in Sandness) a heavy sea driven against the coast from the north-east. ΚΠ 2010 G. P. S. Peterson Let. 6 Apr. (O.E.D. Archive) In the village of Sandness, on the mainland opposite the island of Papa Stour, people call it [sc. the heavy sea] ‘Da aesteen sea’, as it affects the east side of Sandness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † eastenadv.prep. Obsolete. 1. From the east. easten-wind n. a wind blowing from the east. ΚΠ OE Beowulf (2008) 569 Leoht eastan com, beorht beacen Godes. OE Genesis B 806 Hu sculon wit nu libban oððe on þys lande wesan, gif her wind cymð, westan oððe eastan, suðan oððe norðan? OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 133 Subsolanus, eastenwind. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1075 Sona æfter þam comon eastan of Denmearcan cc scipa. 2. In or to the east, eastwards. rare. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 8 Asia is befangen mid Oceano þæm garsecge suþan & norþan & eastan. eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) vi. xxx. 147 Æfter þæm Dioclitianus & Maximianus bebudon ehtnesse cristenra monna, Dioclitianus eastane, & Maximianus westane [L. Diocletianus in Oriente, Maximianus..in Occidente]. OE Metrical Charm: Nine Herbs (Harl. 585) 64 Wegbrade þe eastan open sy. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 291 Esten he [sc. Lucifer] sag in paradis Adam and eue. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 320 Up he [sc. Lucifer] steg, And esten til dat erð he teg. PhrasesWith prepositions. on (also up, with) easten: in or to the east, eastwards. Also as preposition: east of. See also be-east adv. and prep.In prepositional use in Old English with accusative or dative. ΚΠ eOE Bounds (Sawyer 35) in A. Campbell Charters of Rochester (1973) 12 On eastan is Culinga gemære, & on suðan Clifwara gemære. eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 9 Seo ea Danai..wið eastan ut on þa sæ floweð þe mon hętt Euxinus. eOE Bounds (Sawyer 447) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 458 Suþ þonan on þone oran foran wiþ eastan ecgulfes setl. OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 15 Licgað wilde moras wið eastan & wið uppon. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1808 Get held he [sc. Jacob] wið ðis angel fast, Til ðe daning up esten it brast. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.lOEadv.prep.eOE |
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