α. Middle English yfrore, Middle English froare, 1600s– frore.
β. Middle English froren, 1500s frorne, Middle English 1800s– frorn.
单词 | frore |
释义 | froreadj.α. Middle English yfrore, Middle English froare, 1600s– frore. β. Middle English froren, 1500s frorne, Middle English 1800s– frorn. 1. With distinctly participial sense: Frozen. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > made cold or cool > frozen yfrorec1275 frore1297 frozena1340 congealed?a1475 fast1706 vitrified1777 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 265 Þe water yfrore hys. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 97 Of watres froren, of yses wal, Ðis middelwerld it luket al. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xcii. 1243 He [sc. salamandra] quencheþ þe fuyre þat he toucheþ as yse doþ and water yfrore. c1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy i, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 19 Plenty of water that was therein froare. 1542 King Henry VIII Declar. Causes Warre Scottis 197 Our bloud is..frorne with the cold ayre of Scotlande. 1880 Sharp Sword of Damocles III. 74 The lake..was soon ‘frorn’, as they say in Suffolk. 2. Intensely cold, frosty, frost-like. Now only poetic in the form frore (after Milton's use). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [adjective] > intensely cold, freezing, or frosty winter-coldOE frore1483 Siberian1789 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > very intensely cold ice-coldeOE frostyOE frosty cold?a1430 frore1483 chill-cold1567 frory?1567 frostbiting1593 numb-cold1597 chilling-cold1616 frigidious1630 frigid1639 finger-cold1752 Siberian1789 freezy1827 ice-cool1853 Arctic1876 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 130 b/1 After longe tyme saynt Julyen slepte aboute mydnyght..and it was frorn and moche colde. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 595 The parching Air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of Fire. View more context for this quotation 1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 74 Th' aged Year Inclines, and Boreas' Spirit blusters frore. 1764 C. Churchill Gotham i. 19 Frore January, Leader of the year. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 25 Snow-fed streams, Now seen athwart frore vapours. 1829 R. Southey Epist. to A. Cunningham in A. Cunningham Anniversary 9 Time upon my head Hath laid his frore and monitory hand. 1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 415 The Loves..lie, Frore as taken in a snow-storm. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iv, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 196 His beard is with icicles frore. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1297 |
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