单词 | mouth's methe |
释义 | > as lemmasmouth's methe 2. Ability, capability, capacity. mouth's methe: capacity for food and drink, appetite (cf. at one's mouth's met at met n.1 Phrases 2). ΚΠ eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xlii. 147 Ðeah hit ure mæð ne sie þæt we witen hwylc he sie, we sculon þeah..fandian. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) ix. 252 Gif ðu oncnæwst þinne drihten mid þinum æhtum be þinre mæðe, hit fremað ðe sylfum to þam ecan life. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxx. 260 Man sceal læwedum mannum secgan be heora andgites mæðe. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 11 (MED) Þar man ne can his muðes meðe, ne cunnen nele, ne his wombe met. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 13 Temperancia..is riht medeme mel; þe man gemeð his muðes meðe and of his wombe mete. ?c1335 Erthe upon Erthe (Harl. 913) (1911) 4 (MED) He is king of blis and mon of moche mede [L. mensura], Þat deliþ þe dai fram niȝt and leniþ lif and dede [L. mortem]. a1450 (?c1350) Pride of Life l. 497 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 105 (MED) Bot he ne hath miȝt ne meth Þe King of Lif to afere. < as lemmas |
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