单词 | olden time |
释义 | > as lemmasolden time(s) Originally and chiefly in olden days, olden time(s). Belonging to a past age or time; ancient, old; (also) aged. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > ancient or of early origin oldeOE olden daysa1400 for-oldc1400 ancient1475 (as) old as Adama1599 antiquary1599 high1601 primal1604 hoary1609 grandeval1650 Noachal1661 patriarchal1806 (as) old as the hills1819 world-old1837 eld1854 age-old1860 far-back1869 Noachian1874 pornial1883 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > old (of beings, etc.) oldeOE winteredeOE oldlyOE over-oldOE eldernc1175 at-oldc1200 stricken on, in age, in eldec1380 oldlya1382 (well, far, etc.) stepped in age, in or into yearsc1386 ancientc1400 aged1420 well-agedc1450 ripec1480 passing oldc1485 (well) shot in years1530 old aged1535 agey1547 Ogygian1567 strucken1576 oldish1580 stricken in yearsa1586 declined1591 far1591 struck1597 Nestorian1605 overripe1605 elderly1611 eld1619 antiquated1631 enaged1631 thorough-old1639 emerita1643 grandevous1647 magnaevous1727 badgerly1753 (as) old as the hills1819 olden days1823 crusted1833 long in the tooth1841 oldened1854 mature1867 over the hill1950 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 18100 (MED) Now com my sawes Þat I seide bi olden dawes. 1401 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/279/1) m. 1 Mesuagium vocatum the Oldyn. a1425 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Borthwick Add. 196) (1960) A. xi. 303 (MED) Holden [c1400 Trin. Cambr. austyn þe olde]. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 20 Þe goodys of hole cherche..Þat oþer han ȝeuen in holdon daw. 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas (Arb.) 58 In olden dayes, good kings..Contented were, with pompes of little pryce. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 74 Blood hath bene shed ere now, i' th' olden time . View more context for this quotation 1682 S. Speed Gigantomaxia 5 A Town it has, which Fiends Inchant, Where Brideled Furies Roar and Rant, In olden times, hight Troynovant, But now 'tis London Stiled. 1768 D. Garrick in False Delicacy Epil. In olden times your grannams unrefin'd, Ty'd up the tongue, put padlocks on the mind. 1791–2 W. Wordsworth Descr. Sketches 147 There an old man an olden measure scanned On a rude viol. 1816 W. Scott Tales my Landlord 1st Ser. Introd. A young person..who delighted in the collection of olden tales and legends. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII xliii. 26 Olden she was—but had been very young. 1866 J. Smith Poems 205 Wi' pith o' aulden days, Sing loudly [etc.]. 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. i. 2 Many adventurers of olden time had perished. 1970 M. McLuhan Let. 30 Apr. (1987) 405 The elderly love to recall and the children love to hear about the ‘olden times’. 1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 434 All he could see was a single sandy suede shoe..: the olden hushpuppy of R.C. Squires. < as lemmas |
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