high tiden.

Brit.

/ˌhʌɪ ˈtʌɪd/, U.S.

/ˈˌhaɪ ˈtaɪd/

Forms: see high adj. and n.² and tide n.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a word inherited from Germanic. Partly formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., tide n.

Etymology: Originally (i) (in sense 1) cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian hāchtīd , Middle Dutch hōgetīde (Dutch hoogtijd ), Middle Low German hōchtīt , Old High German hōhzīt (Middle High German hōhzīt , German Hochzeit , now only in sense ‘wedding’), Old Icelandic hátíð , < the Germanic base of high adj. + the Germanic base of tide n. Compare (with prefixed second element: see y- prefix) Old Saxon hōhgitīd . Compare also (with a variant of the same base: see high adj.) Old Swedish höghtidh , högtiþ (Swedish högtid ), Old Danish høgtidh (Danish højtid ). Compare discussion at high adj. and n.² Compounds 1. In later use (ii) (in sense 2a and subsequent senses) independently < high adj. + tide n. With sense 2a compare earlier high water n. and high flood (see high adj. 4b).

I. In sense of tide n. I.

1. Originally and chiefly Christian Church. A festival, a feast day. Cf. high day n.¹ 1. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun]

tidea900

holidayc950

massOE

holy-daya1000

mass-dayOE

high tideOE

holy-tidea1035

good tideOE

high dayOE

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feast dayc1300

ferie1377

festival day1389

solemnity1390

solennityc1400

feastful day1440

festiala1450

festivala1500

sacre1542

panegyry1641

Magdalene-tide1649

church festival1661

surplice day1663

festa1800

festa day1835

fiesta1844

society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > day or season of

high tideOE

high dayOE

feast dayc1300

ferie1377

festival day1389

feastful day1440

festivala1500

gaudy-day1567

carnival1598

utas1600

saturnal1605

Saturnalia1639

terminals1656

days of gala1716

fête dayc1759

mirth-day1778

season1791

festa1800

jour de fête1806

fiesta1844

fest1846

Winterval1982

OE Laws of Æðelred II (Nero) v. xiv. §1. 240 To æghwylces apostoles heahtide fæste man & freolsige.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8895 Forenn þeȝȝ, Till ȝerrsalæmess chesstre. Aȝȝ att te passke messe daȝȝ,..To frellsenn þær þatt heȝhe tid.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1507 At heg tide and at gestning.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 932 Þe hersum euensong of þe hyȝe tyde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 12 What hath this day deseru'd..That it in golden letters should be set Among the high tides in the Kalender?

1647 S. Rutherford Christ Dying i. 59 The high Tydes and rich Feasts of Christs love, after sad and heavy desertions, may heighten the worth and esteeme of Christ.

1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Church Eng. I. sig. Cc4 Before the High Tides of every Apostle let Men strictly fast.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. x. 68 A ‘Feast of Pikes’, ‘Fête des Piques’, notablest among the high-tides of the year.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 194 Unto the town, Where for the high-tide folk were dight.

1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors viii. 315 To attend her high-tides, was the privilege and pleasure of a congregated nation.

1904 Sacramento Missionary May 107/2 More and more are their worship and preaching at these high-tides [sc. Christmas and Easter] concentrated upon the truths which they were instituted to celebrate.

II. In senses of tide n. II.

a. The tide when the sea is furthest up the shore; the time or state of the tide at its highest level. Cf. high water n., low tide n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > high

main floodc1303

full flooda1375

full sea1390

high water1422

full water1498

full tide1538

high tide1546

tide1570

headwater1594

young flood1611

pleni-tide1617

top of flood1867

1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke vi. ix. f. cxxx^v Adder and snakes, that were cast out of Tyber at a merueilouse high tyde.

1584 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 5/1 All fishermen may fish in and upon sea-commons, that is, all such places in rivers, creeks, or bays as are covered by the water at high tide.

1659 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. iii. xix. 121 You may by having the Moons Age..find at what Hour of Day or Night it shall be high Tide.

1668 H. Oldenburg Let. 3 Mar. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) IV. 42 He intimates at the close of his last letter..that that week had produced extraordinary hightides, raised by the storme.

1705 S. Carpenter Let. in Corr. W. Penn & J. Logan (1870) I. 234 About 300 acres, 100 upland, the rest swamp and cripple that high tides flow over.

1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 3 This high Tide..rose the Water to such a prodigious Height.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 684 Up to this Garden comes a sort of Sea-lake, which at High Tide is..very interesting.

1881 Nature 10 Feb. 340/1 All the slabs have been rafted out to sea by the high tide.

1933 Amer. Mercury May 94/1 The name tidal wave has long been applied in scientific literature to the slight bulge of ocean waters..that..causes the ordinary high tide on seacoasts.

1962 Mariner's Mirror 48 275 The boom was rigged down and de-stored by her crew..and then on a high tide she was floated in behind one of the many low breakwaters.

2002 P. Frank Yorks. Fisherfolk iv. 56 Long fingers of hard rock, submerged at high tide, jut out from the shore.

b. = spring tide n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > spring

springa1398

spring-floodc1405

spring tide1548

high tide1609

sea-spring1627

overloup1710

stream-tide1789

overleap1795

1609 P. Erondelle tr. M. Lescarbot Noua Francia x. 64 For in places where is no great depth, as in Rochell, one must tarry for the high tydes of the full and new Moones.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed xv. 393 The Spaniards call the high-tide at the new-moon Cabeza de aguas.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 120 There having been two or three high Tides before we had finished, we found [etc.].

1799 S. Vince Compl. System. Astron. II. xxxviii. 219 The interval between the times of the high tides when the moon is in conjunction and quadratures.

1838 Family Mag. 3 190/2 The high tide will not be when the moon is on that meridian where the tide happens;..but will be at about the third tide after.

1848 A. Bain Astron. 88 In a whole lunar day she has caused two high tides and two low tides all over the earth.

1903 New Eng. Mag. Sept. 51/1 Such sentences as the following, are scattered among the weather prophecies, dates of high tides, court notices, etc.

1989 J. Smith Fairs, Feasts & Frolics (BNC) 31 The Whitby Gazette announced that there would be a high tide on Ascension Eve that year.

2004 D. Pugh Changing Sea Levels iii. 51 The time interval between lunar transit at new or full moon and the next high tide used to be known as the local establishment.

3. figurative or (esp. in early use) in figurative contexts. The highest point or state of something; a state or point of greatest intensity, magnitude, development, or success; a peak, a zenith. Cf. tide n. 9, low tide n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition > highest point

prickOE

heighta1050

full1340

higha1398

pointc1400

roofa1500

top-castle1548

ruff1549

acmea1568

tip1567

noontide1578

high tide1579

superlative1583

summity1588

spring tide1593

meridian1594

period1595

apogee1600

punctilio1601

high-water mark1602

noon1609

zenith1610

auge1611

apex1624

culmination1633

cumble1640

culmen1646

climax1647

topc1650

cumulus1659

summit1661

perigeum1670

highest1688

consummation1698

stretch1741

high point1787

perihelion1804

summary1831

comble1832

heading up1857

climacteric1870

flashpoint1878

tip-end1885

peak1902

noontime1903

Omega point1981

1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue xii. f. 57^v When..his high tyde of his vpright fredome [shall] become to a falling water.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila i. lxxx. 11 Such Saints high Tides n'ere ebbe so low, to shelf Them on the Quicksand of their self-Swallowing Corruption.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew High Tide, when the Pocket is full of Money.

1754 J. Davidson tr. Virgil Æneidos iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. (ed. 3) II. 46 A high tide of tumultuous Passions.

1787 C. Symmons Serm. x. 367 In the high tide of youth and of health, his satisfaction is never genuine and unmingled.

1849 G. G. Foster N.Y. in Slices xvii. 67 A New York eating-house at high tide is a scene which would well repay the labors of an antiquarian or a panoramist.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiii. 221 Plenitudes of Divine Presence, by which high tides are caused in the human spirit.

1918 H. Dalton in E. Marsh R. Brooke 26 During our years at Cambridge, Fabianism was at its high tide.

1936 N. Pevsner Pioneers Mod. Movement ii. 63 The high tide of the Gothic Revival..was passing about 1850.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Jan. iii. 33/5 ‘They've performed well, but we're at high tide,’ Mr. Lieber said of the across-the-board increases in their shares this year.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	high tide
释义	high tiden. Brit. /ˌhʌɪ ˈtʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈˌhaɪ ˈtaɪd/ Forms: see high adj. and n.² and tide n. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a word inherited from Germanic. Partly formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., tide n. Etymology: Originally (i) (in sense 1) cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian hāchtīd , Middle Dutch hōgetīde (Dutch hoogtijd ), Middle Low German hōchtīt , Old High German hōhzīt (Middle High German hōhzīt , German Hochzeit , now only in sense ‘wedding’), Old Icelandic hátíð , < the Germanic base of high adj. + the Germanic base of tide n. Compare (with prefixed second element: see y- prefix) Old Saxon hōhgitīd . Compare also (with a variant of the same base: see high adj.) Old Swedish höghtidh , högtiþ (Swedish högtid ), Old Danish høgtidh (Danish højtid ). Compare discussion at high adj. and n.² Compounds 1. In later use (ii) (in sense 2a and subsequent senses) independently < high adj. + tide n. With sense 2a compare earlier high water n. and high flood (see high adj. 4b). I. In sense of tide n. I. 1. Originally and chiefly Christian Church. A festival, a feast day. Cf. high day n.¹ 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] tidea900 holidayc950 massOE holy-daya1000 mass-dayOE high tideOE holy-tidea1035 good tideOE high dayOE feastc1200 feast dayc1300 ferie1377 festival day1389 solemnity1390 solennityc1400 feastful day1440 festiala1450 festivala1500 sacre1542 panegyry1641 Magdalene-tide1649 church festival1661 surplice day1663 festa1800 festa day1835 fiesta1844 society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > day or season of high tideOE high dayOE feast dayc1300 ferie1377 festival day1389 feastful day1440 festivala1500 gaudy-day1567 carnival1598 utas1600 saturnal1605 Saturnalia1639 terminals1656 days of gala1716 fête dayc1759 mirth-day1778 season1791 festa1800 jour de fête1806 fiesta1844 fest1846 Winterval1982 OE Laws of Æðelred II (Nero) v. xiv. §1. 240 To æghwylces apostoles heahtide fæste man & freolsige. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8895 Forenn þeȝȝ, Till ȝerrsalæmess chesstre. Aȝȝ att te passke messe daȝȝ,..To frellsenn þær þatt heȝhe tid. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1507 At heg tide and at gestning. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 932 Þe hersum euensong of þe hyȝe tyde. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 12 What hath this day deseru'd..That it in golden letters should be set Among the high tides in the Kalender? View more context for this quotation 1647 S. Rutherford Christ Dying i. 59 The high Tydes and rich Feasts of Christs love, after sad and heavy desertions, may heighten the worth and esteeme of Christ. 1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Church Eng. I. sig. Cc4 Before the High Tides of every Apostle let Men strictly fast. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. x. 68 A ‘Feast of Pikes’, ‘Fête des Piques’, notablest among the high-tides of the year. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 194 Unto the town, Where for the high-tide folk were dight. 1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors viii. 315 To attend her high-tides, was the privilege and pleasure of a congregated nation. 1904 Sacramento Missionary May 107/2 More and more are their worship and preaching at these high-tides [sc. Christmas and Easter] concentrated upon the truths which they were instituted to celebrate. II. In senses of tide n. II. 2. a. The tide when the sea is furthest up the shore; the time or state of the tide at its highest level. Cf. high water n., low tide n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > high main floodc1303 full flooda1375 full sea1390 high water1422 full water1498 full tide1538 high tide1546 tide1570 headwater1594 young flood1611 pleni-tide1617 top of flood1867 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke vi. ix. f. cxxx^v Adder and snakes, that were cast out of Tyber at a merueilouse high tyde. 1584 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 5/1 All fishermen may fish in and upon sea-commons, that is, all such places in rivers, creeks, or bays as are covered by the water at high tide. 1659 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. iii. xix. 121 You may by having the Moons Age..find at what Hour of Day or Night it shall be high Tide. 1668 H. Oldenburg Let. 3 Mar. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) IV. 42 He intimates at the close of his last letter..that that week had produced extraordinary hightides, raised by the storme. 1705 S. Carpenter Let. in Corr. W. Penn & J. Logan (1870) I. 234 About 300 acres, 100 upland, the rest swamp and cripple that high tides flow over. 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 3 This high Tide..rose the Water to such a prodigious Height. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 684 Up to this Garden comes a sort of Sea-lake, which at High Tide is..very interesting. 1881 Nature 10 Feb. 340/1 All the slabs have been rafted out to sea by the high tide. 1933 Amer. Mercury May 94/1 The name tidal wave has long been applied in scientific literature to the slight bulge of ocean waters..that..causes the ordinary high tide on seacoasts. 1962 Mariner's Mirror 48 275 The boom was rigged down and de-stored by her crew..and then on a high tide she was floated in behind one of the many low breakwaters. 2002 P. Frank Yorks. Fisherfolk iv. 56 Long fingers of hard rock, submerged at high tide, jut out from the shore. b. = spring tide n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > spring springa1398 spring-floodc1405 spring tide1548 high tide1609 sea-spring1627 overloup1710 stream-tide1789 overleap1795 1609 P. Erondelle tr. M. Lescarbot Noua Francia x. 64 For in places where is no great depth, as in Rochell, one must tarry for the high tydes of the full and new Moones. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed xv. 393 The Spaniards call the high-tide at the new-moon Cabeza de aguas. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 120 There having been two or three high Tides before we had finished, we found [etc.]. 1799 S. Vince Compl. System. Astron. II. xxxviii. 219 The interval between the times of the high tides when the moon is in conjunction and quadratures. 1838 Family Mag. 3 190/2 The high tide will not be when the moon is on that meridian where the tide happens;..but will be at about the third tide after. 1848 A. Bain Astron. 88 In a whole lunar day she has caused two high tides and two low tides all over the earth. 1903 New Eng. Mag. Sept. 51/1 Such sentences as the following, are scattered among the weather prophecies, dates of high tides, court notices, etc. 1989 J. Smith Fairs, Feasts & Frolics (BNC) 31 The Whitby Gazette announced that there would be a high tide on Ascension Eve that year. 2004 D. Pugh Changing Sea Levels iii. 51 The time interval between lunar transit at new or full moon and the next high tide used to be known as the local establishment. 3. figurative or (esp. in early use) in figurative contexts. The highest point or state of something; a state or point of greatest intensity, magnitude, development, or success; a peak, a zenith. Cf. tide n. 9, low tide n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition > highest point prickOE heighta1050 full1340 higha1398 pointc1400 roofa1500 top-castle1548 ruff1549 acmea1568 tip1567 noontide1578 high tide1579 superlative1583 summity1588 spring tide1593 meridian1594 period1595 apogee1600 punctilio1601 high-water mark1602 noon1609 zenith1610 auge1611 apex1624 culmination1633 cumble1640 culmen1646 climax1647 topc1650 cumulus1659 summit1661 perigeum1670 highest1688 consummation1698 stretch1741 high point1787 perihelion1804 summary1831 comble1832 heading up1857 climacteric1870 flashpoint1878 tip-end1885 peak1902 noontime1903 Omega point1981 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue xii. f. 57^v When..his high tyde of his vpright fredome [shall] become to a falling water. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila i. lxxx. 11 Such Saints high Tides n'ere ebbe so low, to shelf Them on the Quicksand of their self-Swallowing Corruption. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew High Tide, when the Pocket is full of Money. 1754 J. Davidson tr. Virgil Æneidos iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. (ed. 3) II. 46 A high tide of tumultuous Passions. 1787 C. Symmons Serm. x. 367 In the high tide of youth and of health, his satisfaction is never genuine and unmingled. 1849 G. G. Foster N.Y. in Slices xvii. 67 A New York eating-house at high tide is a scene which would well repay the labors of an antiquarian or a panoramist. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiii. 221 Plenitudes of Divine Presence, by which high tides are caused in the human spirit. 1918 H. Dalton in E. Marsh R. Brooke 26 During our years at Cambridge, Fabianism was at its high tide. 1936 N. Pevsner Pioneers Mod. Movement ii. 63 The high tide of the Gothic Revival..was passing about 1850. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Jan. iii. 33/5 ‘They've performed well, but we're at high tide,’ Mr. Lieber said of the across-the-board increases in their shares this year. 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