单词 | otherwhile ——, otherwhile |
释义 | > as lemmasotherwhile ——, otherwhile —— 1. At one time or other; at times; sometimes; now and then; occasionally. †otherwhile ——, otherwhile ——: at one time (one thing), at another time (another). Now English regional (south-eastern). ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > sometimes or occasionally whiloma900 whilea1000 stoundmealc1000 stundumOE otherwhileOE umquhile1154 with and withc1175 by stoundsa1225 otherwhilesc1225 umbestound?c1225 umbewhilec1230 then and thenc1275 sometime…sometime1297 umstounda1300 by while13.. over while13.. sometime1340 umbe throwea1350 at timesa1382 now and again (also anon, eft, now)a1393 umbwhile1393 eftsoona1398 sometimea1400 by sithesc1400 umbestoundsc1400 from time to (formerly unto) time1423 now and (also or) then1445 ever now and nowa1470 when and whenc1470 occasionallya1475 in timesa1500 whiles?a1500 whilomsa1500 sometimes1526 somewhiles1528 at whiles1540 ever now and then1542 a-whiles1546 somewhiles…, somewhiles1547 at sometimes1548 now and thenc1550 ever and anon1558 by occasions1562 on (also upon) occasion1562 as soon…as soon1581 every now and then (also again)1642 by a time1721 once and a while1765 ever and again1788 periodically1825 in spots1851 OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. iii. 110 Atom[o]s ys þæt læste getæl; þæt rimcræftige men oðerhwile hatað for his gehwæ[d]nysse momentum oððe punctum. lOE Salisbury Psalter xciii. 8 Intelligite insipientes in populo, et stulti aliquando sapite : ongitað unwise on folce & dysian oþerhwile angytað. a1200 (?OE) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 147 Oðerwile wanne hie segen men wanred þolien. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 13 Þe healsgun[d]..becum [read becumeþ] oþer h[w]ylum [L. aliquando] an man þur þa awergeda adle. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 23 Noþeles oðerhwile þu sunegest mid summe of þisse limen. ?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) iv, in Anglia (1881) 4 191 (MED) Beo þi child þe no so dere, And hit wille ounþewes lere, Bet hit oþerwile. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 40 Oþerhuyl of þe on, oþerhuil of þe oþren, oþerhuyl of on and of oþre. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. xiii. 21 As a wlf shal comunen to a lomb oþerwhile [a1425 L.V. sum tyme]. c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2733 He that taketh a straunge hound by the erys is outherwhile biten with the hound. c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 103 (MED) It is alle so to witte þat þe hare is oþer while male and oþerwhile female. a1450 Dis. Women (Douce) in Proc. Royal Soc. Med. (1916) 9 36 (MED) Þat ys cause þat women oþerwhyll by asyounyng. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 71 (MED) A welle..is the hede of tweyne waters..whiche be other while separate and oþerwhile commixte. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xx. 98 Besechynge you..Yet other whyle to thynke vpon me. 1560 G. Turberville Candidvs in Eglogs of Mantuan v. 41 Can he not both attend His flocke, and otherwhile At vacant time make Uerses, and All cankred cares exile? 1606 Bp. J. Hall Arte Diuine Medit. §xxiii Otherwhile and ofter thy back is turned to him through negligence. 1648 G. Wither Tired Petitioner 6 For, to retreat, and gotten ground to yeeld, Is, otherwhile, the meanes to win a field. 1804 C. T. Smith Heath in Conversat. II. vii. 54 Other while, as white, As rime that hangs upon the frozen spray. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) I has a horn of beer otherwhile, but never nothing to do me no hurt. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Otherwhile, occasionally. < as lemmas |
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