| 单词 | easter-gift |
| 释义 | > as lemmasEaster-gift a. Something, the possession of which is transferred to another without the expectation or receipt of an equivalent; a donation, present. Also preceded by qualifying words, as Christmas-gift, Easter-gift, New Year's gift, etc. Grecian gift (see Virgil's Æneid ii. 49): some seeming favour or concession on the part of an enemy, suspected to be offered with sinister motive. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] givec888 lakeOE presentc1230 giftc1275 garrison1297 benefit1377 beneficec1380 givinga1382 handsela1393 donativec1430 oblation1433 propine1448 presentationc1460 don1524 sportule1538 premie?1548 first penny1557 donation1577 exhibition1579 donary1582 fairing1584 merced1589 gifture1592 meed1613 recado1615 regalo1622 regale1649 dation1656 compliment1702 dashee1705 dash1788 cadeau1808 bestowment1837 potlatch1844 prez.1919 Harry Freeman's1925 pressie1933 α. β. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 46 Be nathan david sone also ȝyfth or thynge ȝoven is signyfyed.γ. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3339 Ilkan gaue he giftes sere.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3319 He hir gaue a gift onan, A gold ring.c1460 Launfal 67 The quene yaf gyftes for the nones..Her curtasye to kythe.1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. D.ij The mynde of gyftes is best.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxvij Also that you..shall confesse that you receiue the citie as a gift, and not rendred as a right to the kyng your Master.1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xxii. 112 [They] went through the city demanding their new yeres gifts of al those they met.1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 491 The one eye vpon the guift and the other vpon the Giver.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 735 Both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep. View more context for this quotation1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 147 Life is his gift, from whom whate'er life needs, And ev'ry good and perfect gift proceeds.1832 S. R. Maitland Albigenses & Waldenses iii. 66 The candour of Gibbon is..so remarkable that I wonder Milner did not reject the Grecian gift.1884 R. Browning Ferishtah's Fancies (1885) 38 Giving is giving, gift claims gift's return.Proverbs.c1460 How Gd. Wif taught hir Dau. 70 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. I. 185 Bounden he is that ȝifte takithe, my dere childe.1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Divv Throwe no gyft agayne at the giuers head.c1275 Laȝamon Brut 1790 Þo hafde Brutus þe ȝeft: þat Dyanne him bi-hehte. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1416 Ðe broðer and de moder oc Riche giftes eliezer ð[o] toc. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 5357 Sterne stedes & strong, & oþer stoute ȝiftes. 1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 27 Why make ye not your feasts to poore men, and yeveth him yefts, as yee done to the rich. 1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. xxxi. 173 A wyse and a worthy man þat lowid not yftis to rescewe. c1450 Godstow Reg. 177 Þe yfte þat Raf þe sone of wayfere & hys heyrys made. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xxiii. 43 I praye yow alle that it plese yow to graunte me a bone & a yefte. 1486 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 15 John a Dene owth for the yfte of hys syster iij selver sponys..xxs. < as lemmas |
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