单词 | adew |
释义 | † adewv.1 Obsolete. transitive. To bedew. Also figurative: to refresh, reinvigorate. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > with or as with dew dewc1175 adewc1425 endew?1518 irrorate1623 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 3566 (MED) Aurora newe gan a-dewe Þe herbis sote and þe grene levis. c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) (1961) iii. l. 1778 The soyl to adewe with his [sc. the river Pishon's] sote stremeȝ. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Testament (Harl. 218) l. 525 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 348 (MED) Thi gracious shoures lat reyne in abundaunce Vpon myn herte, tadewen euery veyne. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † adewv.2 Obsolete. transitive. To endow (a person) with spiritual or intellectual gifts. Cf. endue v. 9a. ΚΠ a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. l. 1123 (MED) This Calistenes..His greene age promotid to doctryne, Bi influence of heuenli fate adewed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < v.1c1425v.2?a1439 |
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