单词 | north end |
释义 | north endn. 1. a. The northern end of something; (in quots. 1641 and 1902) spec. the north side of the altar in a church.The position taken by a priest consecrating the elements of Holy Communion became a matter of controversy in the late 19th cent. following the prosecution of John Purchas (1823–72) in the Court of Arches in 1869 for his adoption of the north-end position. High Church celebrants preferred to stand in front of the altar, facing east, with their backs to the congregation (cf. eastward position n. at eastward adv., adj., and n. Compounds 2, north side n.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [noun] > part or place Thulec888 northdealeOE north halfeOE northwardeOE north endOE northlandOE northdalec1175 north sidec1275 northwardc1350 northa1500 northwards1574 norlanda1578 norwardc1612 northa1631 northing1644 OE Blickling Homilies 93 Seo eorþe on þæm norþende & on þam eastende sprecaþ him betweonum. OE Bounds (Sawyer 360) in S. Miller Charters of New Minster, Winchester (2001) 19 Of horweges norð ende &lang weges eastweard on ðone smalan pæð. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) xxxix. 126 Hi sint swa neah þam norðende þære eaxe þe eall þes rodor on hwerfð. c1200 Serm. in Eng. & Germanic Stud. (1961) 7 61 Ich ville don mine sete in þis norþ ende. and beon euenig. þen heuenliche king. a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 1824 (MED) And þanne wiþynne þulke hous, in þe north ende ywis, Oure lordes sepulcre was. c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 83 Vnto þe forest þay weynde..Þe hunter atte þe northe ende His bugull con he blaw. 1531 Will T. Tubbe of E. Challow, Berks (Berks. Archdeaconry Wills, Berks. Rec. Office D/A1/1/153) So that shoe have my parlor & the over-chambre unto hir use wth a mowsted in the north ende of my barne. 1641 Articles Impeachm. against Matthew Wren §ii At the North-end of the Table so standing Altarwise. 1679 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle III. i. 58 At the North end of this distressed Town. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4350/3 The Northermost Black Buoy lieth on the North End of the outer middle. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iv. 133 At the north end of Nantucket, there is a long point of land projecting far into the sea, called Sandy Point. 1840 Origines Parochiales Scotiae I. 327 Near the north end of the present parish. 1861 F. Metcalfe Oxonian in Iceland (1867) v. 81 Occupying what I believe to have been once the north end of the lake. 1902 Protestant Observer Sept. 131/1 The Archbishop of Canterbury very properly took the North-end position at the Table. 1985 T. Ferguson Onyx John (1988) viii. 271 Zoltan is the biggest dope dealer in the north end. b. Coal Mining. English regional (Yorkshire). The higher end of an inclined coal seam. Now rare. ΚΠ 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 175 North End, the rise side of the coal in North Yorkshire. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > north of England north endOE northc1275 north countryc1325 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1052 Man bead þa folce þider ut ofer ealne þisne norðende, on Siwardes eorldome, & on Leofrices, & eac elles gehwær. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14463 Þa wunede bi-ȝeonde þere Hunbre..in þan norð ende drenches sume sixe. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 734 (MED) In humber grim bigan to lende, In lindeseye, Rith at þe north ende. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 32 Alle þe North ende was in his kepyng. a1425 (c1333–52) L. Minot Poems (1914) 30 Þe north end of Ingland teched him to daunce. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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