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单词 onfall
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onfalln.

Brit. /ˈɒnfɔːl/, U.S. /ˈɑnˌfɔl/, /ˈɔnˌfɔl/, /ˈɑnˌfɑl/
Forms: see on- prefix and fall n.2
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch aenval (Dutch aanval ), Middle Low German anval , German Anfall < the Germanic base of on- prefix + the Germanic base of fall n.2; Old Swedish anfal (Swedish anfall ), Danish anfald are after Middle Low German. Compare oncome n.
1. An attack or onset of disease or other misfortune. In Old English perhaps: spec. †a swelling (obsolete). Now: spec. (Scottish) a sudden cold or fever.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of
onfalleOE
cothec1000
bitc1175
accessc1300
attacha1400
shota1400
swalma1400
storm1540
excess?1541
accession1565
qualm1565
oncome1570
grasha1610
attachment1625
ingruence1635
turn1653
attack1665
fit1667
surprise1670
drow1727
tossa1732
irruption1732
sick1808
tout1808
whither1808
spell1856
go1867
whip1891
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by some hostile or injurious agency
onfalleOE
oncomea1225
sailing13..
visitinga1382
siegec1385
assault1508
visitation1535
assaulting1548
onset1566
assailment1592
blow1594
insult1603
attempt1662
attack1665
offencea1677
seizure1881
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xxxix. 98 Her sint læcedomas wiþ ælces cynnes omum & onfeallum & bancoþum.
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xxxix. 104 Drenc wiþ onfealle wyl on ealað spring wyrt.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 5943 (MED) Ful yern on godd bi-gun þai call To liuer þe folk on þat on-fall.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 27738 Wreth it es a brath on-fall.
1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Onfall, a disease which attacks without any apparent cause.
c1830 Proc. Berwick Nat. Club (1916) 86 Many women when suckling their children are liable to ephemeral fevers, vulgarly called weeds and onfas.
1958 Trans. Hawick Archaeol. Soc. 25 Gey waff and like takin' an onfeh.
2. gen. An attack, assault, or onslaught. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words
bruntc1425
assaultc1449
battery1562
onset1566
brash1573
breach1578
onslaught1613
onfall1646
attack1653
assay?1705
to return to the charge1752
arietation1797
set-to1808
set1829
dead set1835
go-in1858
on-ding1871
hatchet work1938
blitzkrieg1939
blitz1940
carpet bombing1956
bowling1959
society > armed hostility > attack > [noun]
fiend-reseOE
frumresec1275
assault1297
sault1297
inracea1300
sailing13..
venuea1330
checkc1330
braid1340
affrayc1380
outrunningc1384
resinga1387
wara1387
riota1393
assailc1400
assayc1400
onset1423
rake?a1425
pursuitc1425
assemblinga1450
brunta1450
oncominga1450
assembly1487
envaya1500
oncomea1500
shovea1500
front1523
scry1523
attemptate1524
assaulting1548
push1565
brash1573
attempt1584
affront?1587
pulse1587
affret1590
saliaunce1590
invasion1591
assailment1592
insultation1596
aggressa1611
onslaught1613
source1616
confronta1626
impulsion1631
tentative1632
essaya1641
infall1645
attack1655
stroke1698
insult1710
coup de main1759
onfall1837
hurrah1841
beat-up of quarters1870
offensive1887
strafe1915
grand slam1916
hop-over1918
run1941
strike1942
1646 Perfect Occurr. Parl. No. 9 sig. I3 Col. Whalley is in a good forwardnesse there, and hath taken great care to secure his Foot, both from sallyes from within, and sudden on-fals from without.
1689 in W. H. L. Melville Leven & Melville Papers (1843) 38 It's not easy to prevent danger from them from night onfalles.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. iii. 350 Death, by starvation and military onfall.
1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xxxii. 341 Who ever saw a camp so exposed to an onfall?
a1934 A. A. Bowman Sacramental Universe (1939) v. 209 The Arctic explorer, overcome by a snowstorm,..bends all his efforts to avert the onfall of complete unconsciousness.
1940 G. T. Hunt Wars of Iroquois 69 The war, such as it was, went on much as in the days of Champlain, by sudden onfall and skirmish, with few or no predetermined plans and no noteworthy results.
1979 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 291 242 The speed of onfall of the material on the stellar surface.
3.
a. Scottish and English regional (northern). A fall of rain or snow; (occasionally) snowfall.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain
wetec897
rainsOE
raindropc1400
wetc1440
onfall1803
rainfall1817
rainfall1855
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > a fall of snow
snowc825
onfall1803
snowfall1821
1803 G. Culley Let. 5 Mar. in M. Culley & G. Culley Farming Lett. (2006) 420 This day looks like onfall again.
1820 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Apr. 373 This onfall [of snow] was soon accompanied by a rapid and stupifying drift.
1821 Ayr Courier 1 Feb. (Jam.) The snow lay thick..but the on-fall had ceased.
1868 St. Andrews Gaz. 13 June in Sc. National Dict. VI. 476/3 There were at times a cloudy sky and indications of a heavy onfall, but these appear to have been what farmers know as a feeding of the drought.
1910 C. Fraser Glengonnar 11 There were ither signs forebodin' an on-fa' o' the dreided snaw.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 76 This onfa' o snaw'll make the birds caif.
b. Scottish. Nightfall, twilight.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall
nighteOE
evengloamOE
eveningOE
gloamingc1000
darknessa1382
twilighting1387
crepusculum1398
crepusculec1400
darkc1400
twilight1412
sky1515
twinlightc1532
day-going?1552
cockshut1592
shutting1598
blind man's holiday1599
candle-lighting1605
gropsing1606
nightfall1612
dusk1622
torchlighta1656
candlelight1663
crepuscle1665
shut1667
mock-shade1669
close1696
duskish1696
glooma1699
setting1699
dimmit1746
to-fall of the day or night1748
darklins1767
even-close1781
mirkning1790
gloaming-shot1793
darkening1814
bat-flying time1818
gloama1821
between-light1821
settle1822
dayfall1823
evenfall1825
onfall1825
owl-hoot1832
glooming1842
darkfall1884
smokefall1936
dusk-light1937
1825 Old Song (Jam.) But or the onfa' o' the nicht, She fand him drown'd in Yarrow.
1897 E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches xi They winna mak' their set till the onfa' o' the nicht.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 224 The onfa' o' the nicht.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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