单词 | norweyan |
释义 | Norweyanadj.n. Chiefly poetic. A. adj. = Norwegian adj. a. Now chiefly with reference to Shakespeare's use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Scandinavia and Iceland > [adjective] > Norway Norwegian?a1425 Norna1450 Norgan1586 Norway1599 Norweyana1616 Norisha1639 Norsea1650 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 31 But the Norweyan Lord..Began a fresh assault. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 93 He findes thee in the stout Norweyan Rankes. View more context for this quotation 1808 W. Scott Marmion iii. xx. 153 Norweyan warriors grim. 1845 J. M. Neale Battle of Hastings in Mirror of Faith 39 Norweyan Jarls, at Stamford Bridge, another welcome found. 1959 H. J. Davis Elizabethan & Jacobean Stud. 23 There are still to come in Macbeth the Norweyan banners that ‘flout the sky’. 1975 ELH 42 340 The audience imaginatively focuses on the two figures of Macbeth and Banquo setting out to meet the Norweyan threat as ‘canons overcharg'd with double cracks’. = Norwegian n. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Scandinavians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scandinavia > the Norwegians > native or inhabitant of Norway Norgana1387 Norwegian?a1425 Norse1576 Norman1605 Norweyan1817 1817 W. Scott Harold i. xiii. 25 The war-songs of Danesmen, Norweyan, and Finn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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