mid-sean.adj.

Brit.

/ˌmɪdˈsiː/, U.S.

/ˈmɪdˈsi/

Forms: see mid adj. and sea n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mid adj., sea n.

Etymology: < mid adj. + sea n.

A. n.

†1. Chiefly literary and poetic. The middle of the sea, the open sea. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] > ocean, open sea, or deep sea

room seaeOE

seawaya1000

the deepc1000

deptha1382

oceana1387

mid-sea?a1425

profound?a1425

main seaa1530

high seas1566

main1579

main flood1596

the deep1598

deep sea1626

dipsey1626

mid-ocean1697

blue water1803

haaf1809

salt chuck1868

wide1916

?a1425 (a1400) Brut (Corpus Cambr.) 314 (MED) A sangweyn crosse..was seyn..at Boloigne in þe eyr..it mevid & fill in þe myd see.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 48 Thee Creet Ile in mydseas dooth stand too Iuppiter hallowd.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 403 Shoales Of Fish that with thir Finns and shining Scales Glide under the green Wave, in Sculles that oft Bank the mid Sea .

a1833 F. D. Hemans in Wks. (1839) IV. 75 Where finds it you, ye wandering ones? With all your boyhood's glee Untamed, beneath the desert's palm, Or on the lone mid-sea?

1853 G. Grote Hist. Greece XI. ii. lxxxiv. 123 A gentle and steady Etesian breeze carried them across midsea without accident or suffering.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 167 He rides far already, the mid sea's boundary cleaving.

1890 Cent. Mag. Sept. 770/1 Do you want to put a monument in the mid-sea to his good temper and kind heart?

2. A sea in the middle of something. rare.

ΚΠ

1895 Harper's Mag. June 95 On one side of the Mid-Sea a vast territory makes a landway between the Atlantic and the waters of the Orient.

1918 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 24 25 The Atlantic..became the mid-sea of the modern world in lieu of the Mediterranean of the ancient world.

B. adj. (attributive).

Situated or active in the middle of the sea. rare before 19th cent.

ΚΠ

1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Dvj^v When it was not yet enlarged with hir Italian dominions and midsea Iles.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 50 Dwells here the secret of thy midsea tomb?

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous viii. 153 Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters.

1917 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 2 342 Crete..appears to be the center from which the Mediterranean culture radiated. It is ‘Mid-Sea Land’.

1953 Mil. Affairs 17 185/2 The area between the latitudes of Cape Rice and Bermuda and east to the midsea meridian.

1979 Monumenta Nipponica 34 356 The surface of the ocean was like level land... The Mid-Sea Road [Note a narrow spit of land stretching like a protecting arm round Hakata Bay] stretched far out.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mid-sea
释义	mid-sean.adj. Brit. /ˌmɪdˈsiː/, U.S. /ˈmɪdˈsi/ Forms: see mid adj. and sea n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mid adj., sea n. Etymology: < mid adj. + sea n. A. n. †1. Chiefly literary and poetic. The middle of the sea, the open sea. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] > ocean, open sea, or deep sea room seaeOE seawaya1000 the deepc1000 deptha1382 oceana1387 mid-sea?a1425 profound?a1425 main seaa1530 high seas1566 main1579 main flood1596 the deep1598 deep sea1626 dipsey1626 mid-ocean1697 blue water1803 haaf1809 salt chuck1868 wide1916 ?a1425 (a1400) Brut (Corpus Cambr.) 314 (MED) A sangweyn crosse..was seyn..at Boloigne in þe eyr..it mevid & fill in þe myd see. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 48 Thee Creet Ile in mydseas dooth stand too Iuppiter hallowd. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 403 Shoales Of Fish that with thir Finns and shining Scales Glide under the green Wave, in Sculles that oft Bank the mid Sea . View more context for this quotation a1833 F. D. Hemans in Wks. (1839) IV. 75 Where finds it you, ye wandering ones? With all your boyhood's glee Untamed, beneath the desert's palm, Or on the lone mid-sea? 1853 G. Grote Hist. Greece XI. ii. lxxxiv. 123 A gentle and steady Etesian breeze carried them across midsea without accident or suffering. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 167 He rides far already, the mid sea's boundary cleaving. 1890 Cent. Mag. Sept. 770/1 Do you want to put a monument in the mid-sea to his good temper and kind heart? 2. A sea in the middle of something. rare. ΚΠ 1895 Harper's Mag. June 95 On one side of the Mid-Sea a vast territory makes a landway between the Atlantic and the waters of the Orient. 1918 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 24 25 The Atlantic..became the mid-sea of the modern world in lieu of the Mediterranean of the ancient world. B. adj. (attributive). Situated or active in the middle of the sea. rare before 19th cent. ΚΠ 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Dvj^v When it was not yet enlarged with hir Italian dominions and midsea Iles. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 50 Dwells here the secret of thy midsea tomb? 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous viii. 153 Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters. 1917 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 2 342 Crete..appears to be the center from which the Mediterranean culture radiated. It is ‘Mid-Sea Land’. 1953 Mil. Affairs 17 185/2 The area between the latitudes of Cape Rice and Bermuda and east to the midsea meridian. 1979 Monumenta Nipponica 34 356 The surface of the ocean was like level land... The Mid-Sea Road [Note a narrow spit of land stretching like a protecting arm round Hakata Bay] stretched far out. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.?a1425
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