单词 | home-farer |
释义 | > as lemmashome-farer a. Forming nouns, as home-bringer, home-bringing, home-calling, home-farer, home-march, home-return, etc. See also homecoming n., homegoing n. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iii. xi. 79 Ac he Umenis him wende from Antigones hamfærelte micelra untreowða. OE Nativity of Virgin (Hatton) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 125 Þa ætywde hyre drihtnes encgel and hyre gecigde þone hamsið [c1175 Bodl. hamsið] hyre gemæccan. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 925 (MED) Naulus..And Oetes..Accorded ben..to ordeyne at her hom passage To werke fully in-to her damage. 1474 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1474/5/4 That the custommaris sall..tak soverte..of ilk a mercandis for the hame bringyne of bulyeon. 1493 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) A1493/5/12 For the honorabill hamebringing of a quene. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. (1587) 79 The hoame calling of the Dowglas and other such as appertaine to a vniuersall historye of the time. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xvi. 200 T'attend the home-turne of my neerer kind. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 59 My wife..Made daily motions for our home returne. View more context for this quotation a1630 D. Hume Hist. Houses Douglas & Angus (1644) 240 Entertained his home-bringer, the Chamberlain, and given him a thankfull meeting for that work. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxiv. 361 The adventures which took place at the passage of that river, both on the out-march and the homemarch, wherein the Ionians are concerned, are far more within the limits of history. 1870 W. Binnie in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1871) II. Ps. xlv. Introd. The home-bringing of Christ's elect. 1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere i. 2 As the home-farer caught sight of it. 1902 Railway Conductor Aug. 629/1 The home returning of some of us is less pleasant than it should be. 1927 W. E. Ritter Nat. Hist. our Conduct xi. 192 Perhaps it is not justifiable to suppose serious injury results from such home-rushing. 2002 A. Friedman & D. Krawitz Peeking through Keyhole iv. 109 Home-returners are made up of divorced adults with their own children who need a place to stay after the dissolution of their households. < as lemmas |
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