| 单词 | in time of dearth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin time of dearth a. A condition in which food is scarce and dear; often, in earlier use, a time of scarcity with its accompanying privations, a famine; now mostly restricted to the condition, as in time of dearth. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [noun] > scarcity of food or famine hungerc1000 dear1297 deartha1325 fault1340 famine1362 barrennessa1425 affaminea1450 enfaminea1450 wantc1450 scarceness1481 Lang Reeda1525 famishment1526 cleanness of teeth1560 breadlessness1860 the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scarcity, dearth, or deficient supply of anything > general scarcity of necessaries of life deartha1325 scarcityc1450 evil wone1570 benting (benneting) time1670 stint1820 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2345 Two ger ben nu ðat derke [perh. read derðe] is cumen. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2237 Wex derke [perh. read derþe], ðis coren is gon. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4700 Sua bigan þe derth to grete. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vi. 20 If any derth com in þe cuntree [Fr. quant il fait chier temps]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 119 Derthe (P. or derke), cariscia. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xv. f. cij There rose a greate derth thorow out all that same londe. 1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Letany sig. .viii (heading) In the time of dearth and famine. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B6v Dainty they say maketh derth. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 19 They know..If dearth Or Foizon follow. View more context for this quotation 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 82 The Causes and Motiues of Seditions are..Dearths: Disbanded Souldiers. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) 80 The same causes which make Dearth in one place do often cause plenty in another. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. li. 217 The fertility of Egypt supplied the dearth of Arabia. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 361 Augustus in a dearth, gave freedom to twenty thousand slaves. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. iv. ii. 256 In modern times, therefore, there is only dearth, where there formerly would have been famine. < as lemmas |
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