α. 1600s– angustiae.
β. 1600s angustia's.
单词 | angustiae |
释义 | angustiaen.α. 1600s– angustiae. β. 1600s angustia's. Now rare. With plural agreement. Narrow, constricted, or confined places; straits (literal and figurative); constraints; difficulties. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits needfulnessc1350 kankedortc1374 pressc1375 needfultya1382 briguec1400 brikec1400 plightc1400 taking?c1425 partyc1440 distrait1477 brakea1529 hot water1537 strait1544 extremes1547 pickle1562 praemunire1595 lock1598 angustiae1653 difficulty1667 scrape1709 premune1758 hole1760 Queer Street1811 warm water1813 strift1815 fix1816 plisky1818 snapper1818 amplush1827 false position1830 bind1851 jackpot1887 tight1896 squeeze1905 jam1914 1653 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. 150/2 Brought to those great straights or angustiæ. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 72 They everlastingly struggle under their Angustia's. 1784 S. Johnson Let. 13 Oct. (1994) IV. 419 The relaxation of my breath has not continued... But neither do I breath with the same angustiæ and distress as before. 1879 A. Menzies tr. F. C. Baur Church Hist. (ed. 3) iii. 51 The extremitates temporum, the angustiae of the καιρὸς συνεσταλμένος, which lay heavy on the heart of Tertullian. 1897 Jrnl. Philol. 25 128 He enters the angustiae at Passignano. 1907 J. W. S. Gouley Surg. Genito-urinary Organs vi. 103 There are still very many angustiæ due to neglect or to the heroic treatment of urethritis..to occupy much of the physician's time. 1995 H. Staten Eros in Mourning iii. 61 A light-filled body whose light can shine all the brighter in and by means of the passage through the angustiae in which it is extinguished. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1653 |
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