单词 | over sea |
释义 | > as lemmasover sea 15. over sea (also over the sea). extracted from sean. a. Of motion: Across the sea, to the other side of the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adverb] > over sea over seaOE oversea?a1475 overseas1583 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 894 (end) Ond þæt wæs ymb twelf monað Þæs þe hie ær hider ofer sæ comon. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1749 Ouer sea [c1300 Otho see] icomen hauene sone. anomen. 1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 25 He..ferde ouer the see, & conquerd Normundie. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 392 If I sent ouer see my seruantz to Bruges. 1458 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 300 Ther marchandys, the wyche they takyth ovre the se. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. D5v These [goods] they transport ouer seas, whereby they gaine infinit summes of mony. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 253 He fled ouer Seas into Denmarke. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Walking to Mail in Poems (new ed.) II. 48 He..sick of home went overseas for change. b. Of position: On the other side of the sea; abroad. Cf. oversea adj., overseas adv. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in or to foreign land(s) beyond the seasc900 without1297 o brodea1400 on brodea1400 abroada1450 overseas1583 oversea1616 in foreigna1640 foreign1813 over sea1845 exterritorially1853 out foreign1895 1616 Sir G. Hay Let. in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) vii. 146 If he be not found there [i.e. at Court], it is likely that he pretended Court, and meant over-sea. a1626 N. Breton Toyes of Idle Head in Wks. (1879) 35 (title) A letter sent by a gentlewoman, in verse, to her husband, being ouer sea. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer i. 17 Great people over sea may write to our town's folks, because they have nothing else to do. 1838 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl II. v. 97 I wish the fingers of the sempstress over sea had been blistered ere they stitched that foul mantle. 1845 R. Browning Time's Revenges in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 1 I've a Friend, over the sea. 1886 Longman's Mag. Mar. 552 Our brethren of the pen over-seas. 1887 A. C. Swinburne Locrine v. ii. 128 For in my father's kingdom oversea. < as lemmas |
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