单词 | provect |
释义 | † provectadj.n. Obsolete. rare. A. adj. Advanced (in years); mature, adult. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > maturity > [adjective] oldlyOE rankOE ripedOE thowenc1200 waxena1325 ripea1393 thrivena1400 provect1531 big1552 mellowed1575 adulted1645 full agea1658 adult1742 ripeful?1836 unyouthful1859 untender1879 maturish1885 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. iv. sig. Ci Litle infantes assayeth to folowe..the faictes and gesture of them, that be prouecte in yeres. 1636 R. Basset in tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors Ep. Ded. sig. A iij It is the nature of some trees not to bring forth fruite until they come to be provect. B. n. Something grown or become old. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > something old provect1630 the Ancient of Days1935 1630 W. Davenant Cruell Brother ii. i. sig. D3 Dull Caytife, leaue these abortiue Prouects, And talke in the newest fashion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). provectv.ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > forward or onward provect?1440 in tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) Prol. 71 This kyngis dere vncul, & sone, and brother, Hath God prouect, His werkis to conclude. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 17 They were miraculously provected; and as it were carried along in the ayr. 1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London x. 141 Those being mis-applied..are unpowered to render the Disease far worse, and provect it into a Terminative Scorvey. 1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation 196 A continual Fever, which by their [sc. physicians'] erroneous Applications is too oft provected to malignity. 2. transitive. Linguistics. To cause (a consonant) to undergo provection (provection n. 2). Also intransitive. Now rare. ΚΠ 1861 W. Stokes Middle-Cornish Poem in Trans. Philol. Soc. App. 83 G is provected into h after y in y hyller (gyller). 1877 J. Rhŷs Lect. Welsh Philol. ii. 85 As an initial, it [sc. gw reduced to w] was some time or other modified from w to v, which was subsequently provected into f. 1879 Rhŷs in Academy 23 Aug. 144 Even supposing..that the Teutons were by nature endowed with a sort of a lautverschiebung sense, whereby they provected the consonants of other nations. 1954 Language 30 517 The reader is left to ponder for himself why there would not be ‘enough trace of the d left’ in *winn'hȩ̄dl to provect it to *Gwyntoedl. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1531v.?1440 |
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