单词 | night-season |
释义 | night-seasonn. Now archaic and poetic. The night-time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] nighteOE nightertalec1300 darkc1400 nightertimec1425 night-timec1430 night-tidea1500 night-season1530 darkmans?1536 Nox1567 moonshine1652 darkie?1738 the watches of the night1826 nite1928 bat-flight1934 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 184 Les tenebres..a sodayne darkenesse or tenables,..or want of lyght in the night season. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke xxi. 37 In the night season he wente out, and abode all night vpon mount Oliuete. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ljv The Captaine of Turege had taken in the night season Iohn Oxeline. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 93 In thir only mantilis in the nyt seasone thay rowit thame selfes, and in thame sleipet sound. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xvi. 7 I will blesse the Lord, who hath giuen me counsell: my reines also instruct me in the night seasons . View more context for this quotation 1671 Dumbarton Burgh Rec. (1860) 87 Their unseasonabill brewing in the night season. 1733 B. Franklin Brave Men at Fires 20 Dec. in Writings (1987) 222 They are not employ'd in any Crimes for Concealment whereof the Vicious chuse the Night Season. 1792 W. Cowper Let. 29 July (1984) IV. 160 I am hunted by spiritual hounds in the night-season. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (Bohn) 299 He calls up the breeze to chase away the usurping vapours of the night-season. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 37 The aborigines holding their revels under the coolness of the night-season. 1877 J. T. Reid Art Rambles in Highlands & Islands iv. 62 A boat's crew were exchanging for the coin of the realm the sparkling treasure netted in the night season. 1923 C. M. Doughty Mansoul (rev. ed.) vi. 209 Beneath domed Chamber, on whose azure walls; Pourtrayed were the night-seasons starry signs. 1980 R. Johnson Beams 21, 22, 23 in Ark I sleep the sleep of All, not one. The lines are fallen to me In the night seasons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530 |
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