单词 | fullcome |
释义 | † fullcomev. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To achieve a particular state, esp. full knowledge of something; (also) to attain to a given state.The perfect tense is formed with to be. ΚΠ lOE tr. R. d'Escures Sermo in Festis Sancte Marie Virginis in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 135 Þeh hit eall gelumpe, þæt ænig hæfde þa geðincðe, þæt heo mihte mæden beon & eac cildes moder, þehhweðere ne fullcumð næfre nan to þære mærðe, þæt heo þone ilca sune gebere. c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) l. 848 (MED) Thenne was I fulcome and knewe wel þe sothe That Mvm vppon molde myrier life had Thenne þe sothe-sigger. 1545 E. Walshe Office & Duety Fighting for Countrey sig. A.iiv I haue constrayned this litle worke to more brefnes then I ought, leuyng out the examples and historyes, wherof your lordeshyppe is so well fulcome, that I feared the readinge of them shulde be to you somewhat tedyous. 1627 J. Barlow Seasonable Disc. Spirituall Stedfastnesse 147 The Familist..holds, that when a man is full-come, he is perfect as Adam our father was in Paradise. 2. transitive. To carry out, accomplish; to complete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] to make an endc893 afilleOE endc975 fullOE full-doOE full-workOE fullendOE fullfremeOE full-forthlOE fillc1175 fulfilc1300 complec1315 asum1340 full-make1340 performa1382 finisha1400 accomplishc1405 cheve1426 upwindc1440 perfurnish?c1450 sumc1450 perimplish1468 explete?a1475 fullcome1477 consume1483 consomme1489 perimplenish1499 perfect1512 perfinish1523 complete1530 consummate1530 do1549 to run out1553 perfectionate1570 win1573 outwork1590 to bring about1598 exedifya1617 to do up1654 ratifyc1720 ultimate1849 terminate1857 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 20 An other spere that he [sc. Jason] had taken of his esquyer for to fulcome [Fr. en parfaisant] his emprise. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 47 Dieu les laisse leur voye Bien employer! God late them theyr waye Well fulcome! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.lOE |
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