单词 | stathelness |
释义 | † stathelnessn. Obsolete. Something that is firm or offers a firm support; firmness; substance.In quot. OE apparently as a literal rendering of Latin firmamentum in the Vulgate (compare discussion at firmament n.). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [noun] > firmness stathelnessOE sadnessa1398 firmitude?1541 firmness1653 OE Tiberius Psalter xviii. 2 Caeli enarrant gloriam dei et opera manuum eius annuntiat firmamentum : heafanas bodiað uel cyðað wuldor godes & weorc handa his bodiað staþolnesse [eOE Royal bodiaþ staðol uel trumnisse, OE Lambeth bodað uel cyð staðolfæstnysse uel roder]. c1350 in Anglia (1906) 29 406 (MED) O god in þrinnesse And þrinnes in onnesse Wurchip we..Ne þe hodes oht mengande, Ne þe staþelnes [L. substantiam] sondrande. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxxxviii. 14 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 266 And þe staþelnes [L. substantia] ofe me In nethereste ofe erthe to be. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxviii. 2 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 199 I am festened in slime depe esse [perh. read depenesse; L. profundi], And es þare na staþelnesse [a1400 Egerton noht is staþelnes þat me mai kepe; L. non est substantia]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.OE |
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