单词 | lyke-wake |
释义 | lyke-waken. The watch kept at night over a dead body. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > vigil or wake head-wardOE watcha1325 vigilc1374 lyke-wakec1405 wake1412 latewake1667 waking1823 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1405 |
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