单词 | imprime |
释义 | † imprimen. Hunting. Obsolete. The act of ‘impriming’ a deer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > deer > actions in deer-hunting huinga1250 assayc1400 lodging1525 mort1555 imprime1590 say?1611 essay1694 mort note1830 tufting1862 1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting C iv b And being sure it his owne Deere, he may giue one gibbet, at euery imprime, and no more. 1678 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (rev. ed.) xvi. 166 If you be a Hunting the Buck [with a noble person],..suffer him to come in first to the death or imprime. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 214 If he be sunk, and the Hounds thrust him up, 'tis call'd an Imprime, and the Company all sound a Racheat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † imprimev. Obsolete. 1. transitive. Hunting. To separate a deer from the rest of the herd. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [verb (transitive)] > hunt deer > single out imprime1575 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 242 When he is hunted and doth first leaue the herde, we say that he is syngled or emprymed. 1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting C iv b Put your hounds softly vpon, for he wil fall oft at the beginning; which although the Huntsman see, yet must he giue libertie to the yoong houndes to imprime him themselues. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Emprimed, a term used by Hunters when a Hart first forsakes the Herd. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To imprime (in Hunting), to unharbour, rouze, or dislodge a Wild Beast; A Deer is also said to be imprimed when she is forc'd to forsake the Herd. 1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. 1845 J. Mills Old Hall I. i. 13 Occasionally an old, impoverished buck was taken, and a lean, weak hind, lame or injured in some way or other; but as for a three, four, or six-year old stag, he was never viewed again after being once emprimed. 1885 Red Dragon 7 530 The first night the party slept at Llwyn Diarwyd; next day they passed on to Cuuh Valley, and uncoupling the great hounds soon emprimed a stag from his harbour. 2. To begin, commence, initiate, enter upon. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] beginc1000 take?a1160 comsea1225 gina1325 commencec1330 tamec1386 to take upa1400 enterc1510 to stand to1567 incept1569 start1570 to set into ——1591 initiate1604 imprime1637 to get to ——1655 flesh1695 to start on ——1885 1637 H. Wotton Let. 30 July in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 441 To trouble you..about the yet imperfected, though wel imprimed, Business of New-Windsor. Derivatives imˈpriming n. beginning, commencement; entering upon action. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > entering upon a course of action intrado1609 impriminga1639 launching1725 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] ordeOE thresholdeOE frumthc950 anginOE frumeOE worthOE beginninga1225 springc1225 springc1225 commencementc1250 ginninga1300 comsingc1325 entryc1330 aginning1340 alphac1384 incomea1400 formec1400 ingressc1420 birtha1425 principlea1449 comsementa1450 resultancec1450 inition1463 inceptiona1483 entering1526 originala1529 inchoation1530 opening1531 starting1541 principium1550 entrance1553 onset1561 rise1589 begin1590 ingate1591 overture1595 budding1601 initiationa1607 starting off1616 dawninga1631 dawn1633 impriminga1639 start1644 fall1647 initial1656 outset1664 outsettinga1698 going off1714 offsetting1782 offset1791 commence1794 aurora1806 incipiency1817 set-out1821 set-in1826 throw-off1828 go-off1830 outstart1844 start1857 incipience1864 oncome1865 kick-off1875 off-go1886 off1896 get-go1960 lift-off1967 a1639 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 455 After their impriming in France I could wish them to mount the Pirenies into Spaine. a1639 H. Wotton Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham: Parallel in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 6 These were both their springings and Imprimings, as I may call them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1590v.1575 |
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