单词 | ind |
释义 | Indn. 1. a. An earlier name for the country now called India (India n.); (also) Asia; the East. Now archaic and poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > East Indies > [noun] > India Ind?c1225 Indy1578 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 253 Deorewurðe ofer golt hort & ȝimmes ouer [read of] inde. 13.. K. Alis. 4843 In the londe of Ynde thou mighth lere Nyne thousynde folk of selcouth manere. c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1143 And sklendre wyues, fieble as in bataille, Beth egre as is a tygre yond in Ynde. ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Ciij This sayde north perte is callyd europa And this south perte callyd affrica This eest parte is callyd ynde But this newe landis founde lately Ben callyd america. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. vi. 37 Euery Elephante was couered with a stronge tower of wod..& within it was a man of Inde to rule the beest. 1621 F. Quarles Hadassa in Divine Poems 1 Whose Kingdome was to East, and West confin'd, And stretcht from Ethiopia unto Ind. 1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus i. ii. 15 Who conquer'd this same golden realm of Ind. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII ix. 9 From Ceylon, Inde, or far Cathay. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xi. 2 Whether your Catullus attain to farthest Ind. ΚΠ c1400 Three Kings Cologne 40 Þer be iij. Indes of þe whyche þes iij. lordes were kynges; and all þes londes & kyngdoms for þe more partye be yles. 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. f. 108v Dowe or paste of Borace..broughte latelye oute of the Indes. c. With qualification = (East or West) Indies; formerly also the less and the great Ind = Hindustan and the East Indies or the East generally. ΚΠ c1400 J. Mandeville Trav. (Roxb.) Prol. 3 Thurgh..Amazon, Inde þe lesse and þe mare, a grete party. c1450 Campeden Sidrac in T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1778) II. vi. 101 (note) His londe lay de grete Inde Bectorye hight hit as we fynde. c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 441 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 141 In hest [= highest; L. superiorem] ynde, or he fane, he went, & þar throw ferlys schan. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 86 From the east to westerne Inde, no iewel is like Rosalinde. View more context for this quotation ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of India > [noun] Indsc1380 Indoisc1400 c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 341 Jewis and Sarasynes, Grekis and Yngdis. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xviii. xli. (Bodl.) The Elephaunte hatte Elephas..but þe Indes [1495 Yndes] clepiþ hym Barro. c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. (1898) 67 Of whom of philosophers þe bigynynge of Philosophye hadden Indes, Grecys, Percys and latyns. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Kviiv What ende shulde be of the warre..betwene hym & the Indes [printed Iudes]. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indic Inda1400 Indoisa1400 Indic1861 a1400–50 Alexander 5012 Scho begynes all in grew & endis in ynde. 4. attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes ix. xxxviii. 217 b Inde stones vpon their golden tresses. 1433 J. Lydgate Legend St. Edmund i. 873 Of gold and stonys ynde. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh v. 200 An Ind-born man. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.?c1225 |
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