单词 | slaying |
释义 | slayingn.1 1. The action of slay v.1; killing, slaughter. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > [noun] mortifyingc1384 perishingc1384 slayinga1400 interfectionc1450 dispatchment1529 killingc1540 dispatch1576 unliving1599 martyring1607 taking offa1616 enecation1657 exanimation1670 (to get) the chop or chopper1945 wipeout1968 hit1970 α., β. figurative.c1450 Godstow Reg. 9 The balance of vertues I haue mysweyed, With sleyng of tonge, or with wilfulnesse.γ. 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. lxiiijv The slayenge & murtheringe of Christen men.a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. v. 4 Clitus. He is or tane, or slaine. Brutus. Slaying is the word, It is a deed in fashion. View more context for this quotation1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (at cited word) A slaying of parents, een doodt-slaginghe van Ouders.1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. v. 113 As a man zealous to slaying for every point of the Nazarene law.1865 A. Smith Summer in Skye I. 219 Their forefathers had a grand slaying of their enemies.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 6784 Qua þat honoures goddis new. of his slaing [Gött. sleing] sal na mon rew. 1450 in Catal. Publ. Rec. Office IV. 327 That he wase never gelty of sleyng of the do [= doe]. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 65 Sampson slow himsilf in sleyng of þe Philisteis. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxxxiv. 495 Then he commaundyd to sece the sleynge. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis gangrenea1400 mortification?a1425 slayinga1425 superfluence?a1425 death?c1425 necrosis1583 sphacelus1585 gangrenation1598 sideration1625 sphacel1634 necrosy1657 sphacelation1657 necrobiosis1860 a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 37 After þe sleyng of flessh putred. a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 91 It is best remedi to þam þat haþe..þe fistule or oþer sleiyng. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). slayingn.2 (See quot. 1879.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > preparing warp warpingc1440 slaying1613 1613 J. May Declar. Estate of Clothing v. 25 In slaying of their warps they will cast the yarne to proue fine about a foot broad by the listes. 1759 Barbour Constr. Sleying Tables The disposing of the warp threads in the loom is termed sleying. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1056 The names of examining, setting, or sleying,..are used indiscriminately, and mean exactly the same thing. 1879 T. R. Ashenhurst Pract. Treat. Weaving & Designing Textile Fabrics (1893) 304 The slaying or setting of warps are terms used to denote the proportioning of the counts of warp to the different sets of slay, so as to preserve a uniformity of fabric in similar species of cloth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). slayingadj. That slays or kills. Also transferred and in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > [adjective] fatalc1386 slaying1398 killing1435 dispatchinga1564 exanimating1607 dispatchful1608 feral1621 murdering1790 martyring1830 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxi Some beestes haue tunges medicinable,..and some haue sleing tunges and venemous. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xviii. x Þis sleinge addre [Aspis]. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 19 Certain giddy brained men, which..do scorn their simplicitie which still follow the dead and slayeng letter. 1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande i. sig. Civv When as by Ioue eche sleayng beast, abstracted thence shalbe. 1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer III. 11 Achilles seems to refer with stinging, nay rather with slaying irony to this claim. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1a1400n.21613adj.1398 |
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