leisuren.

Brit.

/ˈlɛʒə/, U.S.

/ˈliʒər/,

/ˈlɛʒər/

Forms: Middle English leisere, leysir, Scottish lasere, Middle English leiser, leysere, Scottish lasair, Middle English–1500s laiser, layser, leyser, Scottish laser, lasare, Middle English laisir, laisour, laisure, laysar, laysir, leyzer, laysoure, lesure, Middle English–1500s leysar, Scottish lasar, 1500s laisere, laisure, layso(u)r, laysure, leisar, leisour, leaser, leasour, leesar, leser, leysour(e, leys(s)or, Scottish laseir, lasar, lazar, laisar, Middle English–1600s leysure, 1500s–1700s leasure, 1600s liesure, leizure, 1500s– leisure.

Etymology: < Old French leisir (modern French loisir), substantive use of the infinitive leisir, representing Latin licēre to be permitted. In French the word has undergone much the same development of sense as in English.

†1.

a. Freedom or opportunity to do something specified or implied. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun] > opportunity

roomeOE

ease?c1225

leisure1303

toom1390

respite1443

openc1485

commodity1525

occasion1526

ope1611

conveniency1645

society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun] > scope or free opportunity

roomeOE

leisure1303

libertyc1425

free chase1467

scope1534

roomtha1540

swinge1542

swing1584

blank charter1593

freedom1623

field1639

play1641

free agencya1646

range1793

expatiationa1848

leaveway1890

open slather1919

headroom1932

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 28 Þe seruyng man þat serueþ yn þe ȝere Oweþ to come when he haþ leysere.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 229 Whan þou sees leysere, þat he ne perceyue þi witte..with þe knyfe him to smite.

?a1366 Romaunt Rose 462 No more was there..To clothe her with..Gret leyser hadde she to quake.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 107 She wolde been at his comaundement Whan þ^t she may hir leyser wel espie.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 295/2 Leysere, oportunitas.

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xliii. 169 Sadoyne folowed hym of so nyghe..that with grete peyne gaf them leyser to saue hem self.

a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 267 I cry the marcy and laser to repent.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. x. 83 Quhy will thow nocht fle spedely be nycht, Quhen for to haist thow hes laisar and mycht?

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xci. 291 Huon mette with hym so hastly that he had no layser to stryke hym.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3119 Þai hade laisure at lust þere likyng to say.

1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. 75 The Jewes..hold, that after twenty yeares of age, who so finds (the Lezer [printed Iezer]) in himselfe, is bound under paine of sin to marry.

b. An opportunity. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun]

chance1297

occasiona1382

leisurec1386

opportunitya1387

advantage1487

portunity1516

in the nick1565

mean1592

vantage?1592

occasionet1593

overture1610

hinta1616

largeness1625

convenience1679

tid1721

opening1752

offer1831

slant1837

show1842

showing1852

show-up1883

window of opportunity1942

op1978

c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 485 Whil þat I haue a leyser and a space Myn harm I wol confessen.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 95 If so is, that I may hent Somtime amonge a good leiser.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 242 That she with him had [= might have] a leiser To speke and telle of her desir.

14.. Epiph. in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 116 They haue a leysar found To take hor leyve.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. v Euer eft on him she cast an eye Whan that she founde a leyser opportune.

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ix. xxxiii. 212 b To their entent a leysure they did spie.

a. In narrower sense: Opportunity afforded by freedom from occupations.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [noun] > for doing something

toom1297

leisurec1400

respite1443

vacationc1450

vacuity1607

room1769

time off1881

the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun] > opportunity > offered by freedom from occupations

leisurec1400

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxx. 137 I..saw all þis..and mykill mare þan I hafe layser for to tell.

c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 999 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 92 Waitand bot lasare quhen he mycht purchess oportunite.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xx. 234 Gif God will me gif Laser [1489 Adv. Layser] and space so lange till liff.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xxii. 70 Noo layser they had to putte hem self in ordynaunce.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark iii. f. xlvij They had nott leesar somoche as to eate breed.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique Ep. A ij I traveyled so muche as my leasure myghte serve therunto.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 74 If your leisure seru'd, I would speake with you.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 510 He wonderd, but not long Had leasure, wondring at himself now more.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 418. ¶5 It does not give us time or leisure to reflect on our selves.

1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 51 They had leisure to laugh at their late terrors.

1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. ii. 38 As long as every man is engaged in collecting the materials necessary for his own subsistence, there will be neither leisure nor taste for higher pursuits.

b. Duration of opportunity; time allowed before it is too late. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > sufficient time or leisure

timeOE

stounda1225

while?c1225

spacec1300

leisure1553

1553 J. Bale Vocacyon 41 More than .xxvj. dayes of layser for the payment therof [of the ransom] might not be graunted.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f. 100^v That Tumanama..myght haue no leasure to assemble an armye.

1621 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 3) 1331 The Turkes had scarce leasure to leape to land, and to flie into the country.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxi. 259 The unfortunate youth had scarcely leisure to deplore the elevation of his family.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 547 The authority of the government of Batavia, for whose sanction there was no leisure to wait.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 147 He found himself unexpectedly in Eachin's close neighbourhood, with scarce leisure to avoid him.

1846 in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 383 The young blades in the field have leisure to expand and grow again before the scythe returns to cut them down a second time.

a. The state of having time at one's own disposal; time which one can spend as one pleases; free or unoccupied time.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [noun]

restingOE

leisure13..

voidnessa1382

remissionc1384

vacationc1386

ease1393

otiosity1483

holiday1526

otiation1589

idlesse1596

vacance1610

playa1616

vacancya1616

remissness1624

recess1644

otium cum dignitate1729

dolce far niente1814

disoccupation1834

otium1850

non-work1855

kef1864

toillessness1877

13.. K. Alis. 234 Heo thougte heo wolde him y-here, Whan heo was of more leisere.

1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 413 I..praye [them]..at theire ceasons of leysoure to rede..this present boke.

c1540 Gardiner in J. Strype Cranmer (1694) ii. 75 To spend some of my laysor to wryte..to your G[race] who hath lesse laysor.

1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Plinius Novocomensis in Panoplie Epist. 255 To the perfourmance of such an enterprise, much leasure and labour is required.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxxix. sig. D Oh absence what a torment wouldst thou proue, Were it not thy soure leisure gaue sweet leaue, To entertaine the time with thoughts of loue.

1680 W. Temple Ess. Orig. & Nature Govt. in Wks. (1731) I. 97 Where Ambition and Avarice have made no Entrance, the Desire of Leisure is much more Natural, than of Business and Care.

1780 S. Johnson Let. 25 Aug. (1992) III. 308 I am not grown, I am afraid, less idle; and of idleness I am now paying the fine by having no leisure.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vi. 91 Charles commanded his Lordship to employ some of his leisure in a dramatic composition.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. iv. 143 The first volume of ‘Modern Painters’ took the best of the winter's leisure.

personified.1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 39 And adde to these retired leasure, That in trim Gardens takes his pleasure.

b. In particularized sense: A period or spell of unoccupied time. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [noun] > a period of

leisurec1449

non-terminus1573

Sabbatism1582

non-term1607

recess1620

playtime1631

by-hour1639

vacancy1654

relache1780

lounge1806

spellc1845

pink-eye1901

seventh-inning stretch1915

standoff1918

timeout1931

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 236 That thei go in pilgrimage thanne or in sum other leiser which thei wolen to hem silf point.

a1535 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (E.E.T.S.) 432 To spare a leysoure for hym to here the bottom of his mynde.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 115 I will then take my leaue of you for this time, till my next leisure.

1654 R. Codrington tr. Justinus Hist. i. 2 In the leisures which in this City I enjoyed.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 247 It is because he [sc. Bacon] had imagination, [and] the leisures of the spirit..that he is impressive to the imaginations of men.

1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 181 In keeping with that sense of endless leisures which it is one chief merit of the poem to suggest.

c. to tarry, attend or stay (upon) a person's leisure: to wait until he is unoccupied; to wait his time. Also figurative. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > until someone is unoccupied

to tarry, attend or stay (upon) a person's leisure1517

1517 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 4 (note) If ye be not contente to tary my Leysure, departe when ye wille.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxvi[i]. 14 [16] O tary thou y^e Lordes leysure.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 68 Weele make our leysures to attend on yours.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 147 Worthy Macbeth, wee stay vpon your leysure.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 58 The aduerse windes Whose leisure I haue staid, haue giuen him time To land his Legions all as soone as I.

1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 91 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity Not contented to wait the Lords Leisure.

†4. Leisureliness, deliberation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [noun] > quality

leisurea1300

leisureliness1829

leisureness1867

the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] > unhurried quality

leisurea1300

leisureness1742

leisureliness1829

deliberation1838

hastelessness1838

the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [noun] > absence of haste

leisurea1300

leisureness1742

leisureliness1829

deliberateness1831

deliberation1838

hastelessness1838

a1300 Cursor Mundi 29370 Þe toþer [case] es of dorward or porter..þat clerk wit laiser smites oght.

1450–80 Secreta Secret. 25 Ete with leyser and good masticacioun.

1486 in Surtees Misc. (1888) 55 Sex kinges..with certaine convenient laisour, avisedly shall commyt a ceptour unto Salamon.

?1566–7 G. Buchanan Opinion Reformation Univ. St. Andros in Vernacular Writings (1892) 8 Tellyng..to thayme the lettres..in sik lasar that the barnis may easely writ eftyr his pronunciation.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 123 Much leisure and accurateness were used in filling the Tube.

1677 A. Marvell Let. 16 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 206 I having presented him your Letter, he read it with great leisure.

5. Phrases.

a. at leisure: with free or unoccupied time at one's disposal; without haste, with deliberation. Also with qualifying adjectives, as all, best, convenient, full, less, more.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [adverb] > at leisure

in (good) leisurec1315

at leisurec1386

at one's leisure1481

aspare1653

at libertya1690

society > leisure > [adjective] > at or having leisure

freeOE

restingOE

at leisurea1529

vacant1531

otious1614

unbended1693

unbending1701

picktootha1726

disengaged1836

otiant1845

otiose1850

eased1851

vacationing1926

c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋761 Som folk stonden of hir owene wyl to eten at the lasse leyser.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 7239 Hir tyme she toke a leiser þere And whil he slepte kut his here.

1444 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 219 Whoo hath no dyneer, at leyser must abyde, To staunche his hungir abyde upon his ffood.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 390 He..sat and ete at all lasare [1489 Adv. layser].

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 7 Go youre way, and anothir tyme, we shall speke more at leyser.

a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 622 My lorde is nat at layser.

1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario H iv And so let it bake at leisure, strawing Sugar..vpon it.

1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age i. sig. B4 The full circumstance I shall relate at leasure.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. i. 100 I will debate this matter at more leisure .

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 33 We for the present are well at Leisure, we will present the Reader with the Description of their severall Principalities.

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour v. i. 50 Marry'd in haste, we may repent at leisure.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII vi. 58 Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

b. Const. for; also infinitive or a clause introduced by that.

ΚΠ

1610 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 2) 1250 They were not at leisure now to send such great forces as they had before vsed, into Hvngarie.

1669 Earl of Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 95 We complain..of those who are in place and authority..that they are never at leisure that we may speak to them.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. xx. 70 I am not at leisure to peruse the learned Writings of Divines.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. vii. 86 The dinner being now fairly sent in, the whole kitchen was at leisure to gossip with her.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 334 The wardens..shall be men of ability, and at leisure to take care of the public interest.

c. at one's leisure: when one has unoccupied time at one's disposal; at one's ease or convenience. Also with adjectives as in a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adverb]

in timea1325

in good timec1325

in seasonc1330

tidefullya1340

tidily1340

betimesc1380

betimec1385

opportunelyc1425

at one's leisure1481

maturely1531

seasonably1532

timeously1538

timefully1614

tempestively1628

patly1632

opportune1667

society > leisure > [adverb] > at leisure

in (good) leisurec1315

at leisurec1386

at one's leisure1481

aspare1653

at libertya1690

1481 W. Caxton in tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) Prol. 5 To whom I humbly beseche, at theyr leyzer and playsyr, to see & here redde this symple book.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xxxix. 63 Wherfore atte his beste leyser, he shewed her his deceyuable purpos.

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Diij^v A thousand kisses buyes my heart from me, And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 387 Mend when thou canst, be better at thy leasure.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 5 Trebonius doth desire you to ore-read (At your best leysure) this his humble suite.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 23 At your kind'st leysure.

1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 69 [They] think they can continue in their sins.., and then repent of them and forsake them at their leasure whensoever they list.

1901 R. Kipling Kim (U.S. ed.) i. 36 He would go to Umballa at his leisure.

†d. by leisure (also by good leisure): with deliberation, in a leisurely manner; at one's leisure; in course of time, by degrees; slowly. Also (= Greek σχολῃ̑), barely, not at all. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [phrase] > without haste

in (good) leisurec1315

by leisurec1386

soft and fairc1391

to go slow1664

in a slow hurry1849

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > not at all

never-a-dealc1250

no dealc1250

not a dealc1250

no grue13..

not a (one) grue13..

for no (kin) meedc1330

in (also by and without preposition) no mannerc1330

nothing like?a1425

by no (manner of) means (also mean)c1440

at no handa1500

never, not (etc.) a whit (awhit, a-whit)1523

not a quincha1566

by leisure1590

c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋65 Thilke Iuge is wys that soone vnderstondeth a matiere and Iuggeth by leyser.

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1544) Prol. 34 From the trueth shall I not remoue But on the substance, by good leysar abyde.

1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 43 William the brusshemaker Selleth the brusshes by leyzer.

c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 99 By the stuffing of his paunch so ful, it bringeth in by leysour, the dropsy [etc.].

1555 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xxxiii. 87 Let him tary, and..work by leysure.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D2^v Though it take fire quickly, yet it takes light by leisure.

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 298 Ile trust by leysure, him that mocks me once.

1607 S. Collins Serm. Paules-Crosse 41 He gaue order to Salomon to see to the execution of them by leasure.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 1 Not all together, and at once, nor in this perfect forme, at first..but by leisure & degrees.

c1700 To Celia in Coll. Poems 54 I must to lengthen on the Pleasure, Dwell on thy Lips, and Kiss by leisure.

†e. in (good) leisure: at leisure. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [adverb] > at leisure

in (good) leisurec1315

at leisurec1386

at one's leisure1481

aspare1653

at libertya1690

the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [phrase] > without haste

in (good) leisurec1315

by leisurec1386

soft and fairc1391

to go slow1664

in a slow hurry1849

c1315 Shoreham 61 Ine leyser other in haste.

c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 904 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 89 Þe bischope..mad hym chifte In gud lasere to here hyr schrift.

c1480 (a1400) St. Placidus 34 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 70 He þat..penance to do here wil begyne, & in gud lasare mend his syne.

f. lady (or woman) of leisure, a woman who has no regular employment or whose time is free from obligations to others.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [noun] > person(s) at leisure

holiday-woman1548

holiday-maker1792

the leisured class(es1848

vacationist1885

vacationer1890

lady (or woman) of leisure1948

1948 R. M. Ayres Missing the Tide v. 164 She was no longer a lady of leisure in her own house but a paid companion with irksome duties to perform.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 40/1 The woman of leisure might wear long skirts, but the working woman was put into adolescent short skirts.

1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman xxii. 190 Or as the lady of leisure, reading a book?

1975 D. Ramsay Descent into Dark i. 26 She had a whole afternoon to play lady of leisure.

6. attributive often passing into adj.

a. Of periods of time: = Free, unoccupied; occasionally compared with more and most; relating to (the enjoyment of) such periods of time.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [adjective]

easyc1385

leisurable1607

vacant1615

leisured1631

leisure1669

sauntry1732

Sundayish1797

sauntering1818

toilless1848

off-duty1851

Sundayfied1899

non-work1922

spare-time1931

non-job1932

society > leisure > [adjective] > free (of time)

unoccupied?a1439

avoid1488

void1530

vacant1531

remiss1566

spared1580

nugifrivolous1589

sparea1610

leisure1669

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. 161 Some will expect..other sort of Questions..For them, and their leisure-time, I have inserted these.. following.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. x. 106 The product of his leasure hours.

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 19 If any leisure time he had from Power.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vii. 30 In his leisure Minutes, he was posting his Books.

1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 198 This was the most leisure time of the year.

1786 R. Burns Poems 70 Hae ye a leisure-moment's time To hear what's comin?

1816 J. Austen Emma I. ii. 25 He had still a small house in Highbury, where most of his leisure days were spent.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xxiv. 194 A more leisure occasion.

a1856 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator (1861) 325 They are in part the fruits of a leisure fortnight spent this autumn.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 249 Let us pass a leisure hour in story telling.

1907 H. Belloc Cautionary Tales 31 Learn To pass your Leisure Time In Cleanly Merriment.

1947 O. Barfield in C. S. Lewis Ess. presented to C. Williams 121 It has no particular significance if poetry is to be regarded only as..a pleasurable way of diverting our leisure hours.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 40/1 Competitive drives and ambitious impulses will be transferred increasingly to leisure and home occupations.

1961 D. Jenkins Equality & Excellence vii. 143 Problems of adjustment..connected with housing and leisure-time activities.

1963 Punch 15 May 710/3 Fashion shows of men's outerwear, underwear, leisurewear, rainwear.

1964 A. Wykes Gambling iv. 80 Watching other people play games has been one of man's favorite leisure-time occupations for a long while.

1965 New Society 26 Aug. 5/3 Buxton is trying to..latch on to the leisure revolution, without becoming a coach tours nightmare.

1966 Guardian 16 Feb. 6/3 A case for subregional leisure centres—which would help people in small towns to feel less dependent on cities—was made out yesterday by Professor Arthur Ling.

1968 Daily Tel. 28 Dec. 21/1 The ever-increasing attraction of boating as a leisure-activity and a sport.

1969 Times 7 Nov. 14/2 With the increasing demand for leisure wear, formal wear people have softened their lines.

1972 Accountant 17 Aug. (Suppl.) 11/3 Expanding construction company specialising in growth market of the leisure industry.

1974 Times 12 Feb. 11/7 Silhouette's swimwear and leisurewear sales manager.

†b. Leisurely. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adjective] > unhurried

toomsomea1400

leisurefulc1449

amblinga1470

hooly1513

leisurablea1540

unhasty1590

leisurely1604

slow-paced1610

unprecipitated1698

leisure1708

unhurrieda1774

jog-trot1826

parliamentary1835

hasteless1838

time-taking1839

unhasting1839

slowed-down1905

the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adjective] > unhurried (of movement)

softc1300

slowa1398

deliberate1575

leisurely1604

unhurrieda1774

leisure1809

downtempo1972

1708 F. Atterbury 14 Serm. 82 It did not establish it self like other Kingdoms, in a slow and leisure manner.

1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 34 By the leisure Putting over the Bowls of Water, the Goodness of the Malt is the more extracted and washed out..than if the Wort was drawn out hastily.

1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming ii. xiii His leisure pace.

c. Leisured.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [adjective] > at or having leisure > having ample leisure

leisureful1556

leisurely1613

leisured1794

leisure1845

1845 Athenæum 1 Feb. 110 That the leisure classes are not more misled and perverted than they are.

1859 S. Smiles Self-help (1860) x. 258 This is an advantage which the working classes..certainly possess over the leisure classes.

1899 T. Veblen (title) The theory of the leisure class.

1907 F. H. Burnett Shuttle xxxiv. 347 In another generation there will be a male leisure class [in America].

1912 J. H. Moore Ethics & Educ. vi. 22 The school in its origin was a leisure-class institution.

1941 E. Wilson Wound & Bow i. 61 They [sc. Estella and Pip] are left with their leisure-class habits and no incomes to keep them up.

1954 Encounter Mar. 78/2 A master-race recruited solely from the leisure-class and endemic to English shores: ‘Of such was The Breed.’

1968 Economist 4 May 38/2 One should not conclude that Frenchmen have reached the stage of the fabled leisure civilisation.

Draft additions January 2011

leisure suit n. originally U.S. (a) a man's suit intended for informal wear, esp. one made from machine-washable synthetic fabric; (b) any of various styles of casual outfit consisting of loose-fitting trousers and top (cf. tracksuit n. at track n. Compounds 2).

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1935 Winnipeg Free Press 1 June 25/5 (advt.) No man wearing a Firth Bros. made-to-measure sport or leisure suit would take a chance with his auto—he would think too much of his suit.

1938 N.Y. Times 30 Oct. 29/4 (advt.) Leisure suits—knitted, fitted wristlets and anklets mean you sleep in style and lounge in leisure.

1961 Times 2 Jan. 11/1 (advt.) The leisure suit..has slim trousers and easy poncho top.

1983 A. Dubus Times are Never so Bad 15 He is wearing a leisure suit with his shirt collar out over the lapels.

1992 I. Pattison More Rab C. Nesbitt Scripts 114 (stage direct.) Jamesie is dressed in relaxed leisure suit and a baseball cap. Nesbitt. Whit yi done up like that for? Is there a sale on at Mothercare?

2006 Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, Kentucky) (Nexis) 5 Oct. A return to the '70s... When your leisure suit got dirty, you just tossed it in the washer.

Draft additions June 2016

leisure centre n. a large building with fitness, sports, and recreational facilities; esp. one that is open to the public and supported by local government funds.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > centre for recreational or educational activities

social centre1869

community centre1899

settlement house1907

leisure centre1935

1935 Brandon (Manitoba) Daily Sun 12 Nov. 5/5 The first official ‘leisure centre in Britain is to be built at Wigan.’.. There will be gymnasiums, shower baths, craft rooms, work-shops, and domestic science departments.

1966 Times 6 Jan. 6/4 Putting together educational and community money, a first-class recreational leisure centre..could be provided.

2009 D. O'Briain Tickling Eng. viii. 107 These days, it is a proper leisure centre in the modern sense, i.e., a gym, filled with exercise equipment and sports facilities.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	leisure
释义	leisuren. Brit. /ˈlɛʒə/, U.S. /ˈliʒər/, /ˈlɛʒər/ Forms: Middle English leisere, leysir, Scottish lasere, Middle English leiser, leysere, Scottish lasair, Middle English–1500s laiser, layser, leyser, Scottish laser, lasare, Middle English laisir, laisour, laisure, laysar, laysir, leyzer, laysoure, lesure, Middle English–1500s leysar, Scottish lasar, 1500s laisere, laisure, layso(u)r, laysure, leisar, leisour, leaser, leasour, leesar, leser, leysour(e, leys(s)or, Scottish laseir, lasar, lazar, laisar, Middle English–1600s leysure, 1500s–1700s leasure, 1600s liesure, leizure, 1500s– leisure. Etymology: < Old French leisir (modern French loisir), substantive use of the infinitive leisir, representing Latin licēre to be permitted. In French the word has undergone much the same development of sense as in English. †1. a. Freedom or opportunity to do something specified or implied. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun] > opportunity roomeOE ease?c1225 leisure1303 toom1390 respite1443 openc1485 commodity1525 occasion1526 ope1611 conveniency1645 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun] > scope or free opportunity roomeOE leisure1303 libertyc1425 free chase1467 scope1534 roomtha1540 swinge1542 swing1584 blank charter1593 freedom1623 field1639 play1641 free agencya1646 range1793 expatiationa1848 leaveway1890 open slather1919 headroom1932 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 28 Þe seruyng man þat serueþ yn þe ȝere Oweþ to come when he haþ leysere. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 229 Whan þou sees leysere, þat he ne perceyue þi witte..with þe knyfe him to smite. ?a1366 Romaunt Rose 462 No more was there..To clothe her with..Gret leyser hadde she to quake. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 107 She wolde been at his comaundement Whan þ^t she may hir leyser wel espie. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 295/2 Leysere, oportunitas. 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xliii. 169 Sadoyne folowed hym of so nyghe..that with grete peyne gaf them leyser to saue hem self. a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 267 I cry the marcy and laser to repent. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. x. 83 Quhy will thow nocht fle spedely be nycht, Quhen for to haist thow hes laisar and mycht? c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xci. 291 Huon mette with hym so hastly that he had no layser to stryke hym. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3119 Þai hade laisure at lust þere likyng to say. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. 75 The Jewes..hold, that after twenty yeares of age, who so finds (the Lezer [printed Iezer]) in himselfe, is bound under paine of sin to marry. b. An opportunity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun] chance1297 occasiona1382 leisurec1386 opportunitya1387 advantage1487 portunity1516 in the nick1565 mean1592 vantage?1592 occasionet1593 overture1610 hinta1616 largeness1625 convenience1679 tid1721 opening1752 offer1831 slant1837 show1842 showing1852 show-up1883 window of opportunity1942 op1978 c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 485 Whil þat I haue a leyser and a space Myn harm I wol confessen. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 95 If so is, that I may hent Somtime amonge a good leiser. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 242 That she with him had [= might have] a leiser To speke and telle of her desir. 14.. Epiph. in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 116 They haue a leysar found To take hor leyve. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. v Euer eft on him she cast an eye Whan that she founde a leyser opportune. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ix. xxxiii. 212 b To their entent a leysure they did spie. 2. a. In narrower sense: Opportunity afforded by freedom from occupations. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > for doing something toom1297 leisurec1400 respite1443 vacationc1450 vacuity1607 room1769 time off1881 the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun] > opportunity > offered by freedom from occupations leisurec1400 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxx. 137 I..saw all þis..and mykill mare þan I hafe layser for to tell. c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 999 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 92 Waitand bot lasare quhen he mycht purchess oportunite. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xx. 234 Gif God will me gif Laser [1489 Adv. Layser] and space so lange till liff. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xxii. 70 Noo layser they had to putte hem self in ordynaunce. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark iii. f. xlvij They had nott leesar somoche as to eate breed. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique Ep. A ij I traveyled so muche as my leasure myghte serve therunto. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 74 If your leisure seru'd, I would speake with you. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 510 He wonderd, but not long Had leasure, wondring at himself now more. View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 418. ¶5 It does not give us time or leisure to reflect on our selves. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 51 They had leisure to laugh at their late terrors. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. ii. 38 As long as every man is engaged in collecting the materials necessary for his own subsistence, there will be neither leisure nor taste for higher pursuits. b. Duration of opportunity; time allowed before it is too late. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > sufficient time or leisure timeOE stounda1225 while?c1225 spacec1300 leisure1553 1553 J. Bale Vocacyon 41 More than .xxvj. dayes of layser for the payment therof [of the ransom] might not be graunted. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f. 100^v That Tumanama..myght haue no leasure to assemble an armye. 1621 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 3) 1331 The Turkes had scarce leasure to leape to land, and to flie into the country. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxi. 259 The unfortunate youth had scarcely leisure to deplore the elevation of his family. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 547 The authority of the government of Batavia, for whose sanction there was no leisure to wait. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 147 He found himself unexpectedly in Eachin's close neighbourhood, with scarce leisure to avoid him. 1846 in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 383 The young blades in the field have leisure to expand and grow again before the scythe returns to cut them down a second time. 3. a. The state of having time at one's own disposal; time which one can spend as one pleases; free or unoccupied time. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] restingOE leisure13.. voidnessa1382 remissionc1384 vacationc1386 ease1393 otiosity1483 holiday1526 otiation1589 idlesse1596 vacance1610 playa1616 vacancya1616 remissness1624 recess1644 otium cum dignitate1729 dolce far niente1814 disoccupation1834 otium1850 non-work1855 kef1864 toillessness1877 13.. K. Alis. 234 Heo thougte heo wolde him y-here, Whan heo was of more leisere. 1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 413 I..praye [them]..at theire ceasons of leysoure to rede..this present boke. c1540 Gardiner in J. Strype Cranmer (1694) ii. 75 To spend some of my laysor to wryte..to your G[race] who hath lesse laysor. 1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Plinius Novocomensis in Panoplie Epist. 255 To the perfourmance of such an enterprise, much leasure and labour is required. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxxix. sig. D Oh absence what a torment wouldst thou proue, Were it not thy soure leisure gaue sweet leaue, To entertaine the time with thoughts of loue. 1680 W. Temple Ess. Orig. & Nature Govt. in Wks. (1731) I. 97 Where Ambition and Avarice have made no Entrance, the Desire of Leisure is much more Natural, than of Business and Care. 1780 S. Johnson Let. 25 Aug. (1992) III. 308 I am not grown, I am afraid, less idle; and of idleness I am now paying the fine by having no leisure. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vi. 91 Charles commanded his Lordship to employ some of his leisure in a dramatic composition. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. iv. 143 The first volume of ‘Modern Painters’ took the best of the winter's leisure. personified.1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 39 And adde to these retired leasure, That in trim Gardens takes his pleasure. b. In particularized sense: A period or spell of unoccupied time. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > a period of leisurec1449 non-terminus1573 Sabbatism1582 non-term1607 recess1620 playtime1631 by-hour1639 vacancy1654 relache1780 lounge1806 spellc1845 pink-eye1901 seventh-inning stretch1915 standoff1918 timeout1931 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 236 That thei go in pilgrimage thanne or in sum other leiser which thei wolen to hem silf point. a1535 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (E.E.T.S.) 432 To spare a leysoure for hym to here the bottom of his mynde. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 115 I will then take my leaue of you for this time, till my next leisure. 1654 R. Codrington tr. Justinus Hist. i. 2 In the leisures which in this City I enjoyed. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 247 It is because he [sc. Bacon] had imagination, [and] the leisures of the spirit..that he is impressive to the imaginations of men. 1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 181 In keeping with that sense of endless leisures which it is one chief merit of the poem to suggest. c. to tarry, attend or stay (upon) a person's leisure: to wait until he is unoccupied; to wait his time. Also figurative. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > until someone is unoccupied to tarry, attend or stay (upon) a person's leisure1517 1517 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 4 (note) If ye be not contente to tary my Leysure, departe when ye wille. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxvi[i]. 14 [16] O tary thou y^e Lordes leysure. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 68 Weele make our leysures to attend on yours. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 147 Worthy Macbeth, wee stay vpon your leysure. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 58 The aduerse windes Whose leisure I haue staid, haue giuen him time To land his Legions all as soone as I. View more context for this quotation 1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 91 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity Not contented to wait the Lords Leisure. †4. Leisureliness, deliberation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > quality leisurea1300 leisureliness1829 leisureness1867 the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] > unhurried quality leisurea1300 leisureness1742 leisureliness1829 deliberation1838 hastelessness1838 the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [noun] > absence of haste leisurea1300 leisureness1742 leisureliness1829 deliberateness1831 deliberation1838 hastelessness1838 a1300 Cursor Mundi 29370 Þe toþer [case] es of dorward or porter..þat clerk wit laiser smites oght. 1450–80 Secreta Secret. 25 Ete with leyser and good masticacioun. 1486 in Surtees Misc. (1888) 55 Sex kinges..with certaine convenient laisour, avisedly shall commyt a ceptour unto Salamon. ?1566–7 G. Buchanan Opinion Reformation Univ. St. Andros in Vernacular Writings (1892) 8 Tellyng..to thayme the lettres..in sik lasar that the barnis may easely writ eftyr his pronunciation. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 123 Much leisure and accurateness were used in filling the Tube. 1677 A. Marvell Let. 16 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 206 I having presented him your Letter, he read it with great leisure. 5. Phrases. a. at leisure: with free or unoccupied time at one's disposal; without haste, with deliberation. Also with qualifying adjectives, as all, best, convenient, full, less, more. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [adverb] > at leisure in (good) leisurec1315 at leisurec1386 at one's leisure1481 aspare1653 at libertya1690 society > leisure > [adjective] > at or having leisure freeOE restingOE at leisurea1529 vacant1531 otious1614 unbended1693 unbending1701 picktootha1726 disengaged1836 otiant1845 otiose1850 eased1851 vacationing1926 c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋761 Som folk stonden of hir owene wyl to eten at the lasse leyser. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 7239 Hir tyme she toke a leiser þere And whil he slepte kut his here. 1444 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 219 Whoo hath no dyneer, at leyser must abyde, To staunche his hungir abyde upon his ffood. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 390 He..sat and ete at all lasare [1489 Adv. layser]. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 7 Go youre way, and anothir tyme, we shall speke more at leyser. a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 622 My lorde is nat at layser. 1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario H iv And so let it bake at leisure, strawing Sugar..vpon it. 1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age i. sig. B4 The full circumstance I shall relate at leasure. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. i. 100 I will debate this matter at more leisure . View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 33 We for the present are well at Leisure, we will present the Reader with the Description of their severall Principalities. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour v. i. 50 Marry'd in haste, we may repent at leisure. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII vi. 58 Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. b. Const. for; also infinitive or a clause introduced by that. ΚΠ 1610 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 2) 1250 They were not at leisure now to send such great forces as they had before vsed, into Hvngarie. 1669 Earl of Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 95 We complain..of those who are in place and authority..that they are never at leisure that we may speak to them. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. xx. 70 I am not at leisure to peruse the learned Writings of Divines. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. vii. 86 The dinner being now fairly sent in, the whole kitchen was at leisure to gossip with her. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 334 The wardens..shall be men of ability, and at leisure to take care of the public interest. c. at one's leisure: when one has unoccupied time at one's disposal; at one's ease or convenience. Also with adjectives as in a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adverb] in timea1325 in good timec1325 in seasonc1330 tidefullya1340 tidily1340 betimesc1380 betimec1385 opportunelyc1425 at one's leisure1481 maturely1531 seasonably1532 timeously1538 timefully1614 tempestively1628 patly1632 opportune1667 society > leisure > [adverb] > at leisure in (good) leisurec1315 at leisurec1386 at one's leisure1481 aspare1653 at libertya1690 1481 W. Caxton in tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) Prol. 5 To whom I humbly beseche, at theyr leyzer and playsyr, to see & here redde this symple book. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xxxix. 63 Wherfore atte his beste leyser, he shewed her his deceyuable purpos. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Diij^v A thousand kisses buyes my heart from me, And pay them at thy leisure, one by one. View more context for this quotation 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 387 Mend when thou canst, be better at thy leasure. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 5 Trebonius doth desire you to ore-read (At your best leysure) this his humble suite. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 23 At your kind'st leysure. View more context for this quotation 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 69 [They] think they can continue in their sins.., and then repent of them and forsake them at their leasure whensoever they list. 1901 R. Kipling Kim (U.S. ed.) i. 36 He would go to Umballa at his leisure. †d. by leisure (also by good leisure): with deliberation, in a leisurely manner; at one's leisure; in course of time, by degrees; slowly. Also (= Greek σχολῃ̑), barely, not at all. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [phrase] > without haste in (good) leisurec1315 by leisurec1386 soft and fairc1391 to go slow1664 in a slow hurry1849 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > not at all never-a-dealc1250 no dealc1250 not a dealc1250 no grue13.. not a (one) grue13.. for no (kin) meedc1330 in (also by and without preposition) no mannerc1330 nothing like?a1425 by no (manner of) means (also mean)c1440 at no handa1500 never, not (etc.) a whit (awhit, a-whit)1523 not a quincha1566 by leisure1590 c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋65 Thilke Iuge is wys that soone vnderstondeth a matiere and Iuggeth by leyser. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1544) Prol. 34 From the trueth shall I not remoue But on the substance, by good leysar abyde. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 43 William the brusshemaker Selleth the brusshes by leyzer. c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 99 By the stuffing of his paunch so ful, it bringeth in by leysour, the dropsy [etc.]. 1555 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xxxiii. 87 Let him tary, and..work by leysure. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D2^v Though it take fire quickly, yet it takes light by leisure. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 298 Ile trust by leysure, him that mocks me once. View more context for this quotation 1607 S. Collins Serm. Paules-Crosse 41 He gaue order to Salomon to see to the execution of them by leasure. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 1 Not all together, and at once, nor in this perfect forme, at first..but by leisure & degrees. c1700 To Celia in Coll. Poems 54 I must to lengthen on the Pleasure, Dwell on thy Lips, and Kiss by leisure. †e. in (good) leisure: at leisure. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [adverb] > at leisure in (good) leisurec1315 at leisurec1386 at one's leisure1481 aspare1653 at libertya1690 the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [phrase] > without haste in (good) leisurec1315 by leisurec1386 soft and fairc1391 to go slow1664 in a slow hurry1849 c1315 Shoreham 61 Ine leyser other in haste. c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 904 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 89 Þe bischope..mad hym chifte In gud lasere to here hyr schrift. c1480 (a1400) St. Placidus 34 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 70 He þat..penance to do here wil begyne, & in gud lasare mend his syne. f. lady (or woman) of leisure, a woman who has no regular employment or whose time is free from obligations to others. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > person(s) at leisure holiday-woman1548 holiday-maker1792 the leisured class(es1848 vacationist1885 vacationer1890 lady (or woman) of leisure1948 1948 R. M. Ayres Missing the Tide v. 164 She was no longer a lady of leisure in her own house but a paid companion with irksome duties to perform. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 40/1 The woman of leisure might wear long skirts, but the working woman was put into adolescent short skirts. 1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman xxii. 190 Or as the lady of leisure, reading a book? 1975 D. Ramsay Descent into Dark i. 26 She had a whole afternoon to play lady of leisure. 6. attributive often passing into adj. a. Of periods of time: = Free, unoccupied; occasionally compared with more and most; relating to (the enjoyment of) such periods of time. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [adjective] easyc1385 leisurable1607 vacant1615 leisured1631 leisure1669 sauntry1732 Sundayish1797 sauntering1818 toilless1848 off-duty1851 Sundayfied1899 non-work1922 spare-time1931 non-job1932 society > leisure > [adjective] > free (of time) unoccupied?a1439 avoid1488 void1530 vacant1531 remiss1566 spared1580 nugifrivolous1589 sparea1610 leisure1669 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. 161 Some will expect..other sort of Questions..For them, and their leisure-time, I have inserted these.. following. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. x. 106 The product of his leasure hours. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 19 If any leisure time he had from Power. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vii. 30 In his leisure Minutes, he was posting his Books. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 198 This was the most leisure time of the year. 1786 R. Burns Poems 70 Hae ye a leisure-moment's time To hear what's comin? 1816 J. Austen Emma I. ii. 25 He had still a small house in Highbury, where most of his leisure days were spent. View more context for this quotation 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xxiv. 194 A more leisure occasion. a1856 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator (1861) 325 They are in part the fruits of a leisure fortnight spent this autumn. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 249 Let us pass a leisure hour in story telling. 1907 H. Belloc Cautionary Tales 31 Learn To pass your Leisure Time In Cleanly Merriment. 1947 O. Barfield in C. S. Lewis Ess. presented to C. Williams 121 It has no particular significance if poetry is to be regarded only as..a pleasurable way of diverting our leisure hours. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 40/1 Competitive drives and ambitious impulses will be transferred increasingly to leisure and home occupations. 1961 D. Jenkins Equality & Excellence vii. 143 Problems of adjustment..connected with housing and leisure-time activities. 1963 Punch 15 May 710/3 Fashion shows of men's outerwear, underwear, leisurewear, rainwear. 1964 A. Wykes Gambling iv. 80 Watching other people play games has been one of man's favorite leisure-time occupations for a long while. 1965 New Society 26 Aug. 5/3 Buxton is trying to..latch on to the leisure revolution, without becoming a coach tours nightmare. 1966 Guardian 16 Feb. 6/3 A case for subregional leisure centres—which would help people in small towns to feel less dependent on cities—was made out yesterday by Professor Arthur Ling. 1968 Daily Tel. 28 Dec. 21/1 The ever-increasing attraction of boating as a leisure-activity and a sport. 1969 Times 7 Nov. 14/2 With the increasing demand for leisure wear, formal wear people have softened their lines. 1972 Accountant 17 Aug. (Suppl.) 11/3 Expanding construction company specialising in growth market of the leisure industry. 1974 Times 12 Feb. 11/7 Silhouette's swimwear and leisurewear sales manager. †b. Leisurely. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adjective] > unhurried toomsomea1400 leisurefulc1449 amblinga1470 hooly1513 leisurablea1540 unhasty1590 leisurely1604 slow-paced1610 unprecipitated1698 leisure1708 unhurrieda1774 jog-trot1826 parliamentary1835 hasteless1838 time-taking1839 unhasting1839 slowed-down1905 the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adjective] > unhurried (of movement) softc1300 slowa1398 deliberate1575 leisurely1604 unhurrieda1774 leisure1809 downtempo1972 1708 F. Atterbury 14 Serm. 82 It did not establish it self like other Kingdoms, in a slow and leisure manner. 1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 34 By the leisure Putting over the Bowls of Water, the Goodness of the Malt is the more extracted and washed out..than if the Wort was drawn out hastily. 1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming ii. xiii His leisure pace. c. Leisured. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [adjective] > at or having leisure > having ample leisure leisureful1556 leisurely1613 leisured1794 leisure1845 1845 Athenæum 1 Feb. 110 That the leisure classes are not more misled and perverted than they are. 1859 S. Smiles Self-help (1860) x. 258 This is an advantage which the working classes..certainly possess over the leisure classes. 1899 T. Veblen (title) The theory of the leisure class. 1907 F. H. Burnett Shuttle xxxiv. 347 In another generation there will be a male leisure class [in America]. 1912 J. H. Moore Ethics & Educ. vi. 22 The school in its origin was a leisure-class institution. 1941 E. Wilson Wound & Bow i. 61 They [sc. Estella and Pip] are left with their leisure-class habits and no incomes to keep them up. 1954 Encounter Mar. 78/2 A master-race recruited solely from the leisure-class and endemic to English shores: ‘Of such was The Breed.’ 1968 Economist 4 May 38/2 One should not conclude that Frenchmen have reached the stage of the fabled leisure civilisation. Draft additions January 2011 leisure suit n. originally U.S. (a) a man's suit intended for informal wear, esp. one made from machine-washable synthetic fabric; (b) any of various styles of casual outfit consisting of loose-fitting trousers and top (cf. tracksuit n. at track n. Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1935 Winnipeg Free Press 1 June 25/5 (advt.) No man wearing a Firth Bros. made-to-measure sport or leisure suit would take a chance with his auto—he would think too much of his suit. 1938 N.Y. Times 30 Oct. 29/4 (advt.) Leisure suits—knitted, fitted wristlets and anklets mean you sleep in style and lounge in leisure. 1961 Times 2 Jan. 11/1 (advt.) The leisure suit..has slim trousers and easy poncho top. 1983 A. Dubus Times are Never so Bad 15 He is wearing a leisure suit with his shirt collar out over the lapels. 1992 I. Pattison More Rab C. Nesbitt Scripts 114 (stage direct.) Jamesie is dressed in relaxed leisure suit and a baseball cap. Nesbitt. Whit yi done up like that for? Is there a sale on at Mothercare? 2006 Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, Kentucky) (Nexis) 5 Oct. A return to the '70s... When your leisure suit got dirty, you just tossed it in the washer. Draft additions June 2016 leisure centre n. a large building with fitness, sports, and recreational facilities; esp. one that is open to the public and supported by local government funds. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > centre for recreational or educational activities social centre1869 community centre1899 settlement house1907 leisure centre1935 1935 Brandon (Manitoba) Daily Sun 12 Nov. 5/5 The first official ‘leisure centre in Britain is to be built at Wigan.’.. There will be gymnasiums, shower baths, craft rooms, work-shops, and domestic science departments. 1966 Times 6 Jan. 6/4 Putting together educational and community money, a first-class recreational leisure centre..could be provided. 2009 D. O'Briain Tickling Eng. viii. 107 These days, it is a proper leisure centre in the modern sense, i.e., a gym, filled with exercise equipment and sports facilities. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). leisurev. Brit. /ˈlɛʒə/, U.S. /ˈliʒər/, /ˈlɛʒər/ Etymology: < leisure n. rare. a. intransitive. To have or enjoy leisure. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [verb (intransitive)] i-hwulena1250 vakec1485 to have nothing on1678 leisure1928 chill1985 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War 304 There to tarry in careless ways,.. Leisuring after fiery days. 1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard vi. 173 Sneed rose late..and leisured with the papers in the coffee-house opposite his flat. b. transitive. To make leisurely. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [verb (transitive)] > make full of leisure leisure1929 1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty i. 32 Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1300v.1928
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