请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 on alre erst
释义

> as lemmas

on alre erst
2. absol. in adverbial phrases. now (then) at erst: now (then) and not sooner; cf. German erst dann. (Apparently through misunderstanding of this, Spenser has at erst = ‘as soon as possible, at once’.) on erst (only early Middle English; also on alre erst): in the first place, at first.
ΚΠ
a1225 St. Marher. 14 Þenne þudde ich in ham luueliche þohtes, on earst hare unþonckes.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 193 Þenne an earst bigineð þe deoflen toweden.
c1230 Hali Meid. 17 Þat is on alre earst þe stude & te time.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2688 Tho tarst [= at arst] bigan Godrich to go Vpon the Danshe.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. xi. 95 But þan atte arst ben þei verray good.
c1386 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 151 And thanne at erst thus to him sayde sche.
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. vi And than at erst fro hense will I wynde.
1475 Bk. Noblesse 6 Now at erst the irness be brennyng hote.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 6 And now at earst the dirke night doth hast.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iv. sig. Q3 Abandon this forestalled place at erst.
extracted from erstadj.adv.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/20 17:37:23