单词 | in twain |
释义 | > as lemmasin (†on) twain b. in (†on) twain: into two parts or pieces, in two, asunder. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > apart or asunder [phrase] in ( on) twoc890 from sunderOE to set in sunderc1325 in twinnyc1380 in (on) twain1398 in (into) twaya1400 on twina1400 on part1485 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. ix. 54 The vertue of apprehendynge..is departed in tweyne. 1415 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 23 Y wolle hit be parted on tweyne. c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 58 Or þei be fulli partide on tweyne. c1440 Generydes 2632 With that stroke he brake his sheld on twayn. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxviii. 197 I have thought long Sithen the time that we parted in twayne. 1598 Mucedorus sig. C3 To cut in twaine the twisted thread. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 128 Cold Winter split the Rocks in twain . View more context for this quotation 1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 145 The marble fountain..was cloven in twain. a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 84 The nation was..severed in twain by..religious faction. < as lemmas |
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