单词 | expiry |
释义 | expiryn. 1. Dying, death; = expiration n. 4. Also figurative of an immaterial thing: Destruction, extinction. rare. 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 1790 R. Burns Let. ?June (2003) II. 31 About the time that Nature puts on her sables to mourn the expiry of the chearful day. 1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 260 Ancient history ought..not to cease with the expiry of the Roman empire. 1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 131 But, on expiry, the rebellious soul Shall other bodies enter. 1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel ii. 62 Men had witnessed..the inherent vitality of the Gospel. They predicted the date of its expiry. 2. Close, termination, end; = expiration n. 5. a. of a period of time. ΚΠ 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 272 No Decreet shall be extracted till after the Expiry of six free Days. 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 108 A lease..renewable at the expiry of that term. 1878 W. Black Green Pastures xxxii. 254 At the expiry of her year of banishment. b. of anything that lasts a certain time, as a contract, truce, etc. expiry of the legal (see quot. 1861). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > coming or bringing to an end > coming to an end or expiry endc1000 ush1463 outrunning1483 extermination1490 ish1502 expirement1526 concluding1530 expiration1562 closing1598 terminating1598 cessure1607 outpassing1609 expire1612 expiring1612 expiry1807 cesser1809 1807 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 5 562 [He] left the situation..before the expiry of his indentures. 1829 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. II. ii. 182 The truce was now within a single year of its expiry. a1847 T. Chalmers Posthumous Wks. (1852) I. 100 Previous to the expiry of the famine. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Expiry of the Legal: is the expiration of the period within which the subject of an adjudication may be redeemed, on payment of the debt adjudged for. 1863 S. Smiles Industr. Biogr. 218 On the expiry of this contract the Government determined to establish works of their own. 1868 Rogers in Adam Smith's W.N. Pref. I. 9 He returned [to Scotland] at the expiry of his exhibition [at Oxford]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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