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单词 firen
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firenadj.

Forms: Old English feren (rare), Old English fyran (rare), Old English fyrn- (inflected form, rare), Old English fyrrin (rare), Old English fyryn (rare), Old English syrenum (dative masculine, transmission error), Old English (rare)–early Middle English fyrenn- (inflected form), Old English (rare)–Middle English firen, Old English–Middle English fyren, early Middle English furen, early Middle English furenn- (inflected form), Middle English fijren, Middle English firend (probably transmission error), Middle English firin, Middle English firun; N.E.D. (1896) also records a form Middle English fern.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Low German vǖren , vǖrīn , Old High German fiurīn (Middle High German viurīn , early modern German fewerin ) < the Germanic base of fire n. + the Germanic base of -en suffix4.
Obsolete.
Consisting of or containing fire; on fire, flaming; fiery.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [adjective]
firenOE
fieryc1300
Phlegethontic1600
empyreal1601
ignic1612
ignean1635
Phlegethontala1649
igneous1664
igneal1669
vulcanic1687
brimstony1924
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxii. 356 Ða..com færlice micel swegi of heofonum & gefylde ealle ða upfleringe mid fyre, & wæs æteowod bufon heora ælcum swilce fyrene [a1225 Lamb. furene] tu[n]gan.
OE Blickling Homilies 43 Þonne bið he geteald to þære fyrenan ea, & to þæm isenan hoce.
OE King Ælfred tr. Psalms (Paris) (2001) vii. 13 He gedeð his flan fyrena þæt he mæge mid sceotan and bærnan þa þe her byrnað on wrænnesse.
c1175 ( Homily: Hist. Holy Rood-tree (Bodl. 343) (1894) 12 Ða wurdon heo feringæ all fyrenne ant me bicom swa mycel fyrht on..þet ic on eorþan feol.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) l. 652 Þe hali gast, þe in þe furene tunge ontende þe apostles.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9413 Of his eȝene scullen fleon furene [c1300 Otho furie] gleden.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 4 Kings ii. 11 Loo! the fijren chaare and the fijren hors deuyden euer either.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22680 All þe stanes..Aboue þe erth and beneþen..Sal smitt togedir wit sli maght, Als thoner dos wit firen slaght.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 157 Þat prince of deuelys..ȝaf hym drynken of a fyren cuppe brynnyng drynk wyth brymston.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 98 Taking þe scheld of þe feiþ, in þe wilk we may sleckun all þe firun dartis of the enemy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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