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单词 onslay
释义

onslayv.

Forms: see on- prefix and slay v.1
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian onslā to strike, Middle Dutch aenslaen to strike, attack, begin (Dutch aanslaan to drive home, to put up a notice), Middle Low German anslān , Old High German anaslāhan (Middle High German ane slahen to hit, attack with blows, to fix with nails, German anschlagen to knock something, to put up a notice) < the Germanic base of on- prefix + the Germanic base of slay v.1
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To strike, spec. to strike (a coin).
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eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 245 Incursere [read incussere], onslogan.
OE Seven Sleepers (Julius) (1994) 47 Wæs þæs feos ofergewrit ðæs ylcan mynetsleges þe man þæt feoh onsloh.
2. intransitive. To fight; to strike blows.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make attack [verb (intransitive)]
onreseeOE
onslayc1275
entera1425
to be upon (also on) a person's jack1588
endeavour?1589
to fall aboard1591
to let fly1611
strikea1616
to lift (up) the hand(s, (occasionally one's arm)1655
to fall on board (of)1658
tilt1708
to walk into ——1794
to run in1815
to peg it1834
to sail in1856
to wade in1863
to light in1868
to roll into ——1888
to make for ——1893
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 766 Hardliche heo on-sloȝen [c1300 Otho an-hewen].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 871 To-gadere heo comen & grundliche on-slowen [c1300 Otho an-sloȝen].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 7338 To-somne heo comen & mid mæine on-sloȝen [c1300 Otho on-slowe].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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