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单词 merciable
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merciableadj.n.

Brit. /ˈməːsɪəbl/, U.S. /ˈmərsiəb(ə)l/
Forms: early Middle English mearciable, Middle English marciable, Middle English merciabille, Middle English merciabul, Middle English mercyabil, Middle English mercyabul, Middle English mercyabull, Middle English mercybull, Middle English mersyabull, Middle English–1500s merciabil, Middle English–1500s merciabill, Middle English–1500s mercyable, Middle English–1500s mercyabyl, Middle English–1500s 1900s– merciable; Scottish pre-1700 merceabill, pre-1700 merciabill, pre-1700 merciable, pre-1700 mercyabile.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French merciable.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French merciable (adjective; early 12th cent. in Old French) < merci mercy n. + -able -able suffix. Compare Middle Cornish mersiabyl merciful.
Now archaic and poetic.
A. adj.
Merciful, compassionate.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > [adjective] > merciful
mild-hearteOE
orefulOE
mild-hearteda1200
merciablec1225
milcefulc1225
mildfulc1225
mildheartfulc1225
milthc1300
merciful1340
milfulc1425
sparingc1480
clement1483
misericordious1483
misericordc1485
undispiteous1598
misericorsa1600
remissful1603
clementious1632
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 47 Ȝe beoð cristene men, ȝef hit is soð þet me seið, merciable & milzfule? &tu art bute reowðe.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 19 Mearciable [a1250 Nero merciable] lauerd.
a1400 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Trin. Dublin 75) Heb. ix. 5 Propiciatorie, or merciable place.
c1422 T. Hoccleve Dialogus (Durh.) l. 368 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 123 Thankid be our lord Ihesu merciable!
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxvii. 42 He sall be made mercyabil till þaire synnys.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxv. sig. i.iiiiv Who so wyll haue mercy Must be mercyable.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 174 He is so meeke, wise, merciable, And with his word his worke is convenable.
1920 J. Joyce Ulysses Oxen of Sun in Little Rev. Sept. 86 There was a sort of scholars along either side the board, that is to wit, Dixon yclept junior of Saint Mary Merciable's.
1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 105 The heaven's in nightmare, yet it once was able To run smooth course, to all men merciable, None to withstand it.
B. n.
Merciful people collectively. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 3793 Blessyd be al mercyable!
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvii. 230 (MED) So grace of þe holygoste þe grete myȝte of þe trinite Melteth in-to mercy, to mercyable & to non other.
c1535 Ploughman's Tale i. sig. A.iiv Christ so gan vs teche And meke and mercyable gan blesse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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