单词 | belime |
释义 | belimev. Now archaic or literary. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)] > join closely, intimately, or permanently > cause to cohere belimeOE to hold togethera1225 glue13.. cement1340 conglutinate1546 agglutinate1586 solder1601 coagment1603 glutinate1604 coagmentate1615 concement1628 to stick together1634 OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) xxiv. 189 Qui docet fatuum quasi qui conglutinet testam : se þe lærð stuntne swylce se þe belime tigelan. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. vi. 128 Oh be thou so good, With sweat and with blood The crown to belime! 2. transitive. To entangle with or as with birdlime. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)] shrenchc897 beswike971 betrapa1000 bewindOE undernimc1175 undertakec1175 bisayc1200 beguile?c1225 catchc1225 beginc1250 biwilea1275 tele?a1300 enginec1300 lime13.. umwrithea1340 engrin1340 oblige1340 belimec1350 enlacec1374 girnc1375 encumber138. gnarec1380 enwrap1382 briguea1387 snarl1387 upbroid1387 trap1390 entrikea1393 englue1393 gildera1400 aguilec1400 betraisec1400 embrygec1400 snare1401 lacea1425 maska1425 begluec1430 marl1440 supprise?c1450 to prey ona1500 attrap1524 circumvene1526 entangle1526 tangle1526 entrap1531 mesh1532 embrake1542 crawl1548 illaqueate1548 intricate1548 inveigle1551 circumvent1553 felter1567 besnare1571 in trick1572 ensnare1576 overcatch1577 underfong1579 salt1580 entoil1581 comprehend1584 windlassa1586 folda1592 solicit1592 toil1592 bait1600 beset1600 engage1603 benet1604 imbrier1605 ambush1611 inknot1611 enmesha1616 trammela1616 fool1620 pinion1621 aucupate1630 fang1637 surprise1642 underreacha1652 trepan1656 ensnarl1658 stalk1659 irretiate1660 coil1748 nail1766 net1803 to rope in1840 mousetrap1870 spider1891 c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 101 (MED) Þys tale rymeþ..And hou senne by-lymeþ Man þat to senne hym deþ. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 106 (MED) While the brid goth coleyinge..Other it happeth that he is slayn with a bolt other bi-lymed. 1595 A. Fletcher Certaine Similies 100 They take him, and holde him, and so belime the wings of his minde, that he cannot once in all his life, haue one flight towards the kingdome of heauen. 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 93 This world..is very birdlime which doth so belime our affections, that they cannot ascend vpward. 1623 T. Powell Wheresoeuer you see Mee 20 His fathers great and dangerous sicknesse (though there were no such matter) for that hee knew was the onely viscouse matter to belime his Creditor that could bee deuised or applied. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iv. 15 As a bird in lime-twiggs; the more he struggles, the more belimed. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 289 Where he found it necessary for his own purpose, sometimes to perplex and belime his Readers. 1834 J. B. Ker Ess. on Archaiol. Pop. Eng. Phrases & Nursery Rhymes 65 This affair there sticks to him like bird-lime; he is sticking there as if belimed or glued. 1871 Congregational Q. 13 34 Imperfect they were, and belimed by contact with false systems, but they led the van of human progress in their day. 1912 H. Church Poems (2009) 169 I see his grave, above he city roar, Not forty rods from Parliament and plebs; Too fast belimed with spinnerules of gold To touch a finer issue. 1984 Q. Hoare tr. J.-P. Sartre War Diaries (1999) 213 The rejected for-itself..is recaptured bodily and totally belimed by the in-itself. 2003 D. Milne Go Figure 51 The more The struggle, the more belimed. 3. transitive. To cover with or as with birdlime, in order to make a trap. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty [verb (transitive)] uncleanseOE horyc1200 befoulc1320 behorewe1340 file1340 flobber1377 smatterc1386 foulc1400 slurryc1440 filtha1450 sowla1450 sollc1480 bawdy1495 squagea1500 arrayc1525 ray1526 bawdc1529 beray1530 filthify1545 belime1555 soss1557 embroyn1566 dirt1570 filthy1581 turpifya1586 dirty1591 muck1618 bedirt1622 bedirty1623 smooch1631 dight1632 fewma1637 snuddle1661 bepaw1684 puddle1698 nasty1707 muddify1739 scavenger1806 mucky1828 squalidize1837 mullock1861 muddy1893 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions Pref. 12 When he..had with all kinde of wickednes belimed ye world. 1619 R. Brathwait New Spring sig. D4 Worme-eaten Rafters, Windores Spider-wouen, Walls Snaile-belimed. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Hypocrite 66 Yee whose foule hands are belimed with bribery. 1666 T. Watson Godly Mans Picture 148 Disparage their Heavenly Calling, and spot their silver wings of Grace, by beliming them with earth. 1797 ‘A. Pasquin’ Pin-basket to Children of Thespis 46 Who could belime a twig to ensnare such a jay? 1867 H. W. Longfellow tr. Dante Divine Comedy I. xxi. 89 Thus, not by fire, but by the art divine, Was boiling down below there a dense pitch Which upon every side the bank belimed. 1904 P. G. Wright Dial of Heart 30 Slowly out of the well Of hell, Fearful, frantic, I climbed On a single rope belimed, Smoking and scorched and slimed With the horrors of hell, of hell! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.OE |
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