单词 | foeman |
释义 | foemann. Now chiefly archaic or literary. A foe, an enemy, esp. in warfare. Later also in weakened sense: an adversary, an opponent. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [noun] witherwinc897 foemaneOE i-foeOE withersakec960 fiendc975 foeOE witherlingc1000 unwine1050 unholda1200 andsetec1200 unfriendc1275 un-i-winec1275 adversaryc1350 enemy1362 hatera1382 evil-willinga1400 fedea1400 contraryc1405 inimi1423 overthwarter?c1450 evil-willer1460 Moabitea1461 heavy friend?1518 Satanas1530 adverse1593 malengine1601 distresser1616 viand1616 hostile1838 unfriendly1973 society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun] > enemy foemaneOE foec1275 enemy1393 alien enemy1579 foemate1592 gomer1978 eOE Laws of Ælfred (Corpus Cambr. 173) v. 50 We settað æghwelcere cirican..ðis frið: gif hie fahmon [lOE Rochester fagman, lOE Corpus Cambr. 383 gefahmon] geierne oððe geærne, þæt hine seofan nihtum nan mon ut ne teo. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 297 Me warpeð grickisch fur up on his famen & swa me ouercumeð ham. c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) 718 To holde his fomen vnder fote. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 648 He of his famen [1489 Adv. fa-men] four has slayn. a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Chetham) l. 243 Dame, why haste thou my fader be-trayde And wyll be wedyd to his foman? 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 21 Ne euer was to Fortune foeman. 1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes xiii. sig. K 3 To saue vs harmlesse from our foemans iawes. 1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia 41 The foe-men overcome, They instituted solemn games at Rome, As glad memorials. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vi. 308 The affrighted foemen scatter from his spear. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake v. 204 Foeman [sic; 1810 (ed. 5) foemen] worthy of their steel. 1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 12 Every movement of the advancing foeman. 1923 Humorist 8 Dec. 497/2 At football, when charging a back..I deliver a full-blooded hack; (You will catch, like my foeman, my drift!). 2005 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Sept. (Sport section) 5 Flintoff, the Australian's chief foeman this season, had been hard at work..when Gilchrist came to the wicket. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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