单词 | poring |
释义 | poringn. The action of pore v. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > [noun] studyinglOE studyc1300 poring1340 study?1531 conning1553 revolving1555 peruse1578 cultivation1639 culture1687 industry1875 scholastic1895 studenting1922 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > staring or gazing poring1340 staring1440 gazingc1502 goggling1540 gazement1596 stare-you-out1932 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > looking in way of study poring1340 the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun] i-mindOE studyinglOE mindc1300 bethinking1340 poring1340 regard1348 weighingc1380 contemplationc1390 advisementa1393 deliberationa1393 advicec1405 reckoninga1413 visement?1414 considerancec1420 advisenessc1425 revolutionc1425 rewardc1432 mind-takingc1449 umbethinkingc1450 advisednessc1475 considering1483 beholding1530 meditationa1535 pondering1535 cogitation?1542 expending1545 ponderation1556 perpending1558 well weighing1566 surview1576 reflex1593 revolve1595 lucubration1596 agitation1600 perpension1612 vizamenta1616 pensitation1623 perpensation1623 perpendment1667 ruminating1668 commentationa1670 revolving1670 reflectiona1674 introspectiona1676 propendencya1676 ponderment1728 chawing1845 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 176 (MED) Ynoȝ þer is of ydelnesse aboute hire heaued, to kembe, to wesse, ine trossinge an ine sseweres pouringe. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iii. 1460 What have thise loveris the agylt, Dispitous day?..Thy pourynge in wol nowher lat hem dwelle. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 85 (MED) Bi her powring in the Bible aloon thei miȝten leerne. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 124 Many of the Pilgrims by poaring on hot bricks, do voluntarily perish their sights. 1754 A. Ferguson Let. 1 Dec. in E. C. Mossner & I. S. Ross Corr. A. Smith (1977) xviii. 14 He likes very well to hear about matters of Study but what is called Poring, is not much to his mind. a1861 D. Gray Poet. Wks. (1874) 3 His foreign ways, And midnight porings o'er uncanny books. 1967 N. Podhoretz Making It i. ii. 34 After a shaky start and many night-long porings over strange and difficult books, I gradually learned to pace myself. 1980 Philos. Q. 30 366 The doing which precedes his putting pen to paper may consist primarily in repeated porings over the same passages in a text; not, indeed, in aimlessly repeated porings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). poringadj. That pores. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > looking in way of study poring1606 society > education > learning > study > [adjective] > studying diligently or hard poring1606 muzzing1788 1606 J. Ford Fames Memoriall sig. G4 Euen as a poring scholler who hath read Some Cosmographick Booke, [etc.]. 1680 T. D'Urfey Virtuous Wife ii. ii. 24 On my honor 'tis a man, a dull poring Melancholly Rogue. 1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) iii. 187 There, dim in clouds, the poreing Scholiasts mark. 1842 G. Barmby in Promethean Jan. 7/3 Is it for this that the wax has burned dim, and the poring eye lost its light? a1862 H. D. Thoreau Excursions (1863) 310 Their eyes, which are weak and poring. 1913 Classical Rev. 27 287/2 The physical languor, the weak, poring eyes, the slight lameness. 1947 W. de la Mare Coll. Stories for Children 9 She was a deaf, poring old woman, but very skilful with her needle. 2001 Africa News (Nexis) 14 May The draft poverty reduction strategy paper went through the poring eyes of citizens and development partners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1340adj.1606 |
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