单词 | geason to be seen |
释义 | > as lemmasgeason to be seen 2. Scantily produced; rare, scarce, uncommon. In the 16th cent. sometimes with passive infinitive, as geason to be found, geason to be seen, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount > scarce gnedec1000 deara1330 scarcec1374 geason1377 dainty?a1500 scarcy1677 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 271 My wafres there were gesen. c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 803 Custade Costable, when eggis & crayme be geson. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clxxxii Grotes and pens were geson. ?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. D A good man is geason, not easy to be founde. ?1545 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture sig. B.iiiv That wyll not know nor amende, theyr wyttes be so geson. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 19 Precious stones that are gayson to bee founde. 1567 G. Turberville Epit., Epigr. (1837) 295 Rich be thy robes, and geason to be had. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xii. i. 239 In the houses of Knights..it is not geson to behold generallie their prouision of tapistrie. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H1 Rare birds vpon the earth, and as geason as blacke swans. 1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 380 Good knowledge in the Greeke toong..in those daies was geason. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 98 Ixine is a rare herb and geason to be seen. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 536 Marle in this place is verie geason or skant. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 67 Geazon, scarce, hard to come by. Ess. < as lemmas |
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