单词 | middle-erd |
释义 | † middle-erdn. Obsolete. The world, the earth, regarded as a middle region between heaven and hell; (also) the inhabitants or things of the world, esp. as opposed to those of heaven; worldly things as opposed to divine or spiritual things. Cf. middenerd n., middle earth n.Quot. a1425 is a late copy of a charter of 869 or 870, but the word middelerd is probably a Middle English substitution. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [noun] > as centre of universe middenerdeOE middle-erdc1175 middle worldc1175 middle earthc1300 mids-worlda1325 mid-world?1536 centre1579 mid-earth1810 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3640 Forr all þiss middell ærdess þing Aȝȝ turrneþþ her & wharrfeþþ. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 15 (MED) A þet drihten com on þis middilert for us to alesnesse of deofles onwalde. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12761 Lauerd Drihten Crist domes waldende. midelarde mund. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9052 (MED) Me nuste womman so vair non in þe middel erde. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 149 (MED) Wy nedde hy be ine helle y-stopped..Nauȝt her in þys myddelnerde For to maky men offerde? c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 263 Þou, maker of Middelert, þat most art of miht. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2100 More he is þen any mon vpon myddelerde. a1425 ( Royal Charter: Æðelred I to Ealdorman Ælfstan (Sawyer 342) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey (1996) 24 For þeses middelerdes idle þinghe. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 100 Therfor shall I fordo All this medill-erd. 1591 (?a1425) Abraham, Lot, & Melchysedeck (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 68 I hope for all myddylarde [1592 BL Add. myddellyarde, 1604 Bodl. middell land, 1607 Harl. 2124 middleyorde]You will not slaye your chylde. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1175 |
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