单词 | othersome |
释义 | othersomepron.adj.adv. Now poetic or British regional. A. pron. Some others.Usually having some as correlative. ΚΠ a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 686 After ðis cam swilc oðer sum. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 6491 (MED) Þaa fraward folk..Said þat Moyses was slain..And oþer-sum said þat he Was liuand. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f.168 (MED) Regeneratiues, incarnatiues, & cicatrizatiues moste ben desiccatiue, but summe moste ben more desiccatiue þen oþer summe. 1453 Rolls of Parl. V. 267/2 The Ministres and Officers of the seid Courtes..some of the same persones have put to grete fyne..and other some of them in sore prison..have..keped. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. Kiijv In sum placies Cicuta is much stronger then in other sum. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Matt. xiii. 8 Othersome fell vpon good ground. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 226 How happie some, ore othersome, can be! View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xvii. 18 Some said, What will this babbler say? Other some, He seemeth to bee a setter foorth of strange gods. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 141 Some place it in the circle of the Moone,..other some vnder the Circle of the Moone. 1701 R. Sanders Disc. Angels xv. 310 If we do somethings commanded, and not other some, as we list, we do not God's will but our own, and serve not God, but our selves. 1770 C. Jenner Placid Man II. v. v. 126 It makes some folks prouder than othersome. 1821 Joseph the Book-man 85 Some, half-seas, like fools do swagger, While other some, whole-seas, do stagger. 1854 M. Oliphant Magdalen Hepburn III. 105 These might be rude missionaries, in some cases, but in other some, they were the highest of heart, and noblest of spirit. 1889 J. Nicholson Folk Speech E. Yorks. 76 Sum fooaks is wahse ti pleease then other sum. 1959 H. Carruth Birth of Venus in Crow & Heart 97 Some remember how the foam Swirled at her ankles. Other some Look shrewd and smile behind the rest. B. adj. 1. Originally: some other; another. Now also (English regional (Yorkshire)): various. Now rare.Not considered by the author of quot. 1928 to have been in common use by that time. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > a different or some other anotherc1175 othersome1573 1573 T. Tusser Points Huswifrie (new ed.) f. 19v, in Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) One diligent seruiture, skilfull to waight, more comelyth thy table, then other some eight, That stand for to listen, or gasing about. 1593 P. Stubbes Motiue to Good Wks. 80 In othersome places I have seene the Churches strawed over either with hay grasse, strawe, sedges. 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 42 Some think that the English translation..in some places takes away, in other places addes, and other-some places changes the meaning. a1700 Alchemical MSS (Royal Coll. Physicians, Edinb.) in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue v, at Other sum In sum metalls is luna and in vther-some metalls is sol. 1874 M. F. Tupper Fifty Protestant Ballads 17 But other some parts he had baked was—the Christ! 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘At othersome times,’ at various periods. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. (at cited word) Othersome, various. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > at another time otherwhilec1225 elsec1400 elsewhen1418 anotherwhilea1425 otherwhiles?a1425 othertimes1447 othersome time1585 othersome whiles1606 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. iii. 448 They are engendred otherwhiles, of..common matter, and othersometime, of some..peculier matter. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. iv. 21 Some-whiles flashes of fyre, other some-whiles againe..dangerous vapors. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxv. 687 Othersome times [1600: Other sometimes]..hee goeth from one thicket to another. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 165/1 Sometimes it signifieth the soul, othersometime, the naturall spirits. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 485 Sometimes water, and othersometimes fire. C. adv. English regional (chiefly Sussex). Sometimes, at other times. ΚΠ 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) Sometimes my old gal's better than what she be othersome. 1894 E. H. Jackson Southward Ho I. 251 Sumwhiles a dey's turmut hoein, an othersum a dey's tan flawin. 1895 J. T. Clegg Stories, Sketches, & Rhymes in Rochdale Dial. 466 Sometimes it went ‘Tong!’ an' othersome ‘Tingle-ingle!’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < pron.adj.adv.a1325 |
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