| 单词 | paternoster-while |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspaternoster-while paternoster-while n. now historical the time it takes to say a paternoster. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > time it takes to do a particular thing paternoster-whilec1400 the space of a paternoster1561 travel time1851 airtime1928 run time1964 c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. v. 189 (MED) He pisside a potel in a paternoster while. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K3v A man that hath an vneuitable huge stone hanging only by a haire ouer his head, which he lookes euerie Pater noster while to fall and pash him in peeces, will not he be submissiuely sorrowfull for his transgressions. a1658 A. Farindon Serm. (1849) IV. 241 We may do it in a Pater-noster-while. 1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow i. vii. 84 As though the bearer had run for a pater-noster-while. 1944 G. G. Coulston Fourscore Yrs xxxiv. 331 This..would have taken him just about what our medieval ancestors defined as ‘a paternoster-while’. < as lemmas |
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