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单词 lyke-wake
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lyke-waken.

Brit. /ˈlʌɪkweɪk/, U.S. /ˈlaɪkˌweɪk/
Forms: Also Middle English, 1800s liche-wake, 1500s, 1800s lyk(e)wa(i)ke, 1500s–1600s like-, lyke-walk, 1700s–1800s lake-wake, 1800s lychwake. Cf. latewake n.
Etymology: < lyke, lich n. + wake n.1
The watch kept at night over a dead body.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > vigil or wake
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c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2094 Ne how that lychwake was yholde Al thilke nyght..kepe I noght to seye.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. ix. 31 Quham that he etlis for to send from thens, To Pallas likewalkis.
1558 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 127 Ther shall be no yong folkes at my lyke~waike.
1623 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. III. 549 At quhose lyke-walk..the ox foirsaid was slane and eittin.
a1775 Fair Mary of Wallington xix, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1886) II. iv. 311/2 Your daughter..bids you come to her sickening, or her merry lake-wake.
1832 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. Aug. 2 At all lykewakes, accordingly, the doings and endurances of the Departed are the theme.
1878 W. C. Smith Hilda (1879) 192 I heard them..moan their rugged lyke-wakes in the ancient Runic rhymes.
attributive.1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iv. xxiii. 114 Our slogan is their lyke-wake dirge.1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) 99 The lyke-wake train was seen advancing towards them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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