单词 | soul-knell |
释义 | † soul-knelln. Obsolete. The knell rung or tolled at or after the death of a person. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > bell > knell, peal, or stroke knellc961 soul-knell?a1300 soul-knoll?c1500 death knell1773 dumb peal1799 teller1868 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > mourning soul-knell?a1300 soul-knoll?c1500 minning1524 dumb peal1799 ?a1300 Fox & Wolf 251 in G. H. McKnight Middle Eng. Humorous Tales (1913) 35 (MED) Þi soule-cnul ich wille do ringe, And masse for þine soule singe. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 5796 Thei myȝt haue rongen here soule-knylle... Thei hadde dyed for-sothe both, Ne hadde y-come Ayax. 1575 G. Gascoigne Posies Ep. Yng. Gent., in Wks. (1907) I. 11 That the Soulknill [sc. a poem] of M. Edwards was also written in extremitie of sicknesse. ?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) 411 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 247 I will singe him a soulekn[ell] with the sound of my gunnes. 1618 T. Adams Happines of Church i. 329 Now he starts vp on the hearing of this Soule-knell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.?a1300 |
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