单词 | his name is hight |
释义 | > as lemmashis (or her) name is hight —— 1. transitive. To call, name; to designate as. Formerly also in †his (or her) name is hight —— (obsolete). Now chiefly in past participle. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > call or give as name to nemneOE clepec1000 hightOE sayOE nameOE yclepec1175 callc1300 nevena1400 deemc1400 christena1470 nominate1545 term1545 titulea1550 behight1579 benamea1586 inquire1590 nuncupate1609 indigitate1623 font1652 vocitate1653 express1659 appellate1768 nomenclature1824 OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 15 Þa deor hi hatað hranas. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) xci. 134 Wið þa adle ðe man litargum hateð, þæt ys on ure geþeode ofergytulnys cweden. a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 77 Þu scald..bere knaue child, and haten hit helend. c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 527 Sathanas..tu leuest up on & ti feader hatest. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1427 To hire he hefde loue & læfdi heo hehte. c1330 St. Katherine (Auch.) l. 8 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 242/1 (MED) Hir name was hoten Katerine. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 405 (MED) Þat menskful mayde melior was hoten. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 477 A bischop hight Eugenius. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 192 Emanuell is hete, His name for to lere. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. Proem sig. A.iiiv And finalie I knew be thair consentis This ane virtew, that othir hecht delite. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 8 Thee Romans of his owne name, Romulus, highting. 1605 R. Verstegan tr. in Restit. Decayed Intelligence iii. 83 The nether Saxons are hight now Friesians. a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iii. i. 37 One Harlotha Concubine To deignous Wilhelme, hight the Conqueror. a1754 W. Hamilton Maid of Gallowshiels i, in Poems & Songs (1850) 24 The first famed author of our ancient race Was Colin hight. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 352 To the argent season succeeded the secle hight ferruginous. 1821 in Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (1893) 130 I mean not the second—O Fogarty hight—who can speak for himself. 1889 M. M. Harper Bards of Galloway 50 An' they hecht it the Galloway flail. 1911 E. Pound Canzoni 9 That azure feldspar hight the microcline. 1926 E. R. Eddison Styrbiorn the Strong ix. 168 All they hight me in Hlymdale of old Hild the Helm'd, whoso knew me. a1978 A. S. Borrowman Buik o Ruth & Ither Wark in Lallans (1979) (Ruth i. 2) 13 The man was hecht Elimelech. 1999 P. Anderson War of Gods (new ed.) xxvii. 232 A man hight Tosti. He it was who broke the long peace. < as lemmas |
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