单词 | exceeding |
释义 | exceedingn. 1. a. The action of exceed v., in various senses. ΚΠ 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 21. ¶2 There has been a great Exceeding of late Years in the second Division. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] > going beyond bounds overgoinga1382 surmounting14.. supergressiona1550 exceeding1593 debordment1603 pretergression1615 transgression1623 transcension?1624 debording1635 excess1818 overstep1822 overstepping1823 overpassing1865 transcendency1902 transcendence1907 1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 29 No more will..a frend crosse her louing exceedinges, in whome his hart delighteth. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §lxxxi But these exceedings would bee both rare, and moderate. 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica viii. 102 Our defects as well as our exceedings. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] exceeding1520 precellinga1532 excelling1573 outdoing1679 surpassing1736 outvying1757 capping1883 1520 Chron. Eng. ii. f. 13/2 Salamon..of the gyfte of our lorde hadde a synguler excedynge above all men. 2. concrete. a. plural. In college language (still used at Cambridge): Extra commons allowed on festival occasions. Also transferred. Cf. exceed v. 6a [So Latin excedentia in Oxf. Accts. c1400.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > rations > [noun] > extra reward1440 exceeding1630 regale1793 1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. L4 They..hold chese parings..For festiuall excedings. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 303 His joyes..They are as exceedings, with which he feasts the believer, but the cloth is soon drawn. 1662 J. Strype in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 178 Sometimes we have Exceedings; then we have two or three dishes..otherwise never but one. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 199 Certain..Virtuosos..unsatisfied with the Brevity of the Gazette desire to have Exceedings of News, besides their ordinary Commons. 1885 L. Stephen Life H. Fawcett iii. 77 The Christmas ‘exceedings’ as they were called in our official language, had a certain reputation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > excess, redundancy, or superfluity > a surplus or excess surplusc1374 overplusa1387 surplusagec1407 superplusage1436 superplusa1450 surcroitre1496 superfluous1552 excess1557 over-increase1579 over-sum1587 overflow1589 surcrease1600 surcroist1601 over-crease1625 exceeding1719 excedent1811 surcruec1825 overage1886 overspill1892 1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 54 The Exceedings of the year 1712, which had so prodigious a Ballance in our Favour. 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 417 Including the fisheries, and making a moderate allowance for the exceedings..beyond his calculations. 1828 Ld. Grenville Sinking Fund 5 Without such an exceeding..a sinking fund..can have no solid operation. 1828 C. Lamb Old China in Elia 2nd Ser. 114 Much ado we used to have every..December to account for our exceedings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). exceedingadj.adv. A. adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective] outragea1325 unskilwisea1340 unskilfulc1370 delavyc1380 unordinatea1398 excess?a1400 untemperatea1425 unmannered1435 immoderate1497 insolent?a1500 surfeitc1500 intemperate1508 exceedinga1513 unsober1535 intemperant1542 distemperate1557 distempered1587 intemperous1614 acrasial1845 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxiii. f. xxiii He excercisid Tyranny..in so excedynge maner that the Countree waxed wery of hym & conspyrid his deth. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 265/1 To shew by that great exceding word [let him be anathema] the vndoubted trouth of the faith. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xvi. 280 Why was Anna so exceeding in crauing children at the hands of God? 1644 P. Hunton Vindic. Treat. Monarchy lv. 27 Exceeding Acts notwithstanding morall limitation are authoritative. 1742 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 191 Sir Philip Sydney's famous Romance..is far exceeding the exceedingness of the most exceeding imagination. 2. Surpassing in amount or degree; extremely great, excessive. Now only with nouns denoting quality, condition, or feeling, or including a notion of magnitude or multitude. Rarely used predicatively. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree overmeteeOE unmeeteOE unimeteOE unmethelyOE over-mickleOE hoflesc1175 overmucha1300 unskilwisea1340 unskilfulc1370 luxuriousc1374 overseemingc1384 superfluec1384 unreasonablea1387 outrageousc1390 over-greatc1390 overlargec1390 overgrowna1398 unmeasurablea1398 unmoderatea1398 unordinatea1398 immoderate1398 rankc1400 overabundantc1410 excessivea1420 superabundant?a1425 unmeasureda1425 superfluousc1475 nimious?c1500 surfeitc1500 overliberala1535 torc1540 exceeding1548 distemperate1557 over-ranka1568 overswelling1582 accessive1583 overaboundinga1600 overteeming1603 excessful1633 overproportionated1647 superproportioned1652 over-proportioned1662 overproportionate1672 unduea1684 unequal1704 unmerciful1707 hypermetric1854 hypertrophied1879 over the top1980 1548 Order of Communion sig. B.iiv The excedynge loue of our Mayster and onlye Sauyour Jesus Christ. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 23 In the .vi. yere of his [William II's] reigne were exceedyng floodes. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. v. sig. E3 Whose beauties beame..Daz'd the eyes of all, as with exceeding light. View more context for this quotation 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 76 The exceeding quantity of Water which at every interval he drinks. c1680 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) II. 133 It cannot but be an exceeding grief..to you that you cannot obey..him. 1749 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) V. 274 Attended with a vast concourse of people, and exceeding magnificence. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 677 Reports touching the exceeding badness of the beer which he brewed. 1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes 261 His love for his father was so exceeding. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 112 The exceeding host of priests. 1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 19 Their exceeding value for illustrating the literary history of these..ages. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [adjective] sunderlyOE noblec1330 precellentc1384 passantc1385 especialc1386 passinga1387 surmountingc1407 superlative?a1430 precelling?1435 pre-eminenta1460 outrepassed1477 divine1488 pre-excellenta1500 superexcellent1508 transcending1528 pre-ordinate1543 exceeding1552 superexcelling1554 exquisite1578 surpassingc1580 summary1587 paragon1593 transcendent1598 overmatchful1609 termless1609 overtoppinga1615 paramounta1626 overtowering1639 surpassant1654 transcendental1701 superior1711 towery1731 prize1739 supernala1817 tiptopsome1819 tip-topping1826 par excellence1839 superfine1850 towering1894 1552 H. Latimer Serm. (1571) 166 b Christ tooke..our nature vpon him..Oh, what an exceeding thing is this? 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. iii. sig. Giiv How long shall I liue, ere I be so happie, To haue a wife of this exceeding Forme? View more context for this quotation B. adv. = exceedingly adv. Prefixed to adjectives or adverbs. Very common in 17–18th centuries; now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xxii. B Yet wyl I rather fall in to ye hande of the Lorde, for his mercy is exceadynge greate. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. iv. 23 My heart is exceeding heauy. View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 4 We Englishmen..are observ'd by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward. 1735 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 18 Mr. Delamotte was exceeding sick for several days. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 96 Our Papua friends..had behaved exceeding civily. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion i. 9 A virtuous Household though exceeding poor! View more context for this quotation a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) viii. 321 The controversy is one in which there is exceeding little footing for any party. 1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 17 Sept. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vi. 383 He is of exceeding fluent talk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.1520adj.adv.a1513 |
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