单词 | behither |
释义 | † behitherprep.adv. Obsolete. A. prep. 1. On this side of. (Latin cis, citra.) ΚΠ 1521 W. Warham Let. 8 Mar. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 241 Yt shuld engendre grete obloquy and sclandre to the Universitie, bothe behyther the See and beyonde. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. 209 The Italian..calleth the Frenchman..and all other breed behither their mountaines Appennines, Tramontani. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1679 (1955) IV. 177 I called in at my Co: Evelyns, who has a very pretty seate in the Forest, 2 miles behether Cliffden. 1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 82 The Parlour lies behither, or on this Side the Kitchin. 2. Short of, barring, save. ΚΠ 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 36 Let me be soft and supple to thy will..to others, mild, Behither ill. 1671 B. Oley in G. Herbert Priest to Temple (ed. 2) To Rdr. sig. a2 I have not observed any one thing (be-hither vice) that hath occasioned so much Contempt of the Clergie. B. adv. On this side, on the nearer side. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adverb] > to or on the nearer side a-this-half1297 shortc1588 behither1650 hither1862 hitherward1864 1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes 280 Of what is behither..I need say nothing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < prep.adv.1521 |
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