单词 | stinting |
释义 | stintingn. 1. a. The action of stint v. in various senses; †stopping, ceasing, coming or bringing to an end (obsolete); limiting, apportioning within limits; undue limitation, scant supply. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] lissc1000 ceasec1330 stintc1330 stinting1338 ceasinga1340 discontinuancea1398 cessationa1400 leaving-off?a1425 surceasingc1435 disusage1475 stop1483 staying1546 discontinuation1572 discontinuing1582 surcease1590 stintance1605 cessure1607 desisting1607 avocationa1617 desistance1632 sistencea1639 surceasementa1641 supersession1648 dispractice1673 breaking-off1683 estoppage1701 cess1703 cesser1809 shutdown1857 stoppage1865 shut-off1889 sign-off1919 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] limiting1391 moderation1429 bridlingc1443 limitation1483 confine1548 restriction1554 limit1572 prescription1604 bounding1607 circumscriptiona1616 stricture1649 stinting1656 circumscribing1660 contractiona1670 confinement1678 contracting1692 handcuff1814 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > restriction or limitation definitionc1386 limiting1391 moderation1429 limitation1483 restriction1554 restraint1566 limit1572 stint1593 prescription1604 stintance1605 bounding1607 confining1608 confine1609 circumscriptiona1616 definement1643 stricture1649 stinting1656 circumscribing1660 contractiona1670 confinement1678 contracting1692 narrowing1871 the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scarcity, dearth, or deficient supply of anything > action of stinting scanting1625 stinting1656 1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 1 Had þei no styntyng, bot þorgh alle þei ran. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7016 Right swa þe devels salle ay dyng On þe synfulle, with-outen styntyng. c1420 Prymer (Douce 275 lf. 6 b) To thee cherubyn and ceraphin crien with voice with outen stentinge. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 46 And thus began the styntyn off this stryff. a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 200 Bot had thay maid of mannace ony mynting In speciall, sic stryfe sould rys but stynting. 1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon 37 They have no Liturgy at all, but account it a stinting of the Spirit. 1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn 59 It may occasion prejudicial Retaliations,..and if too much Practised, may prove a Stinting of Trade. 1839 W. M. Thackeray Fatal Boots Feb. I always was fond of good wine..and, by Jupiter! on this night I had my little skinful,—for there was no stinting. 1907 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 235 There is absolutely no stinting of vivid impressions on first treading Indian soil. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [noun] > solstice sunsteadOE solsticea1325 stinting of the suna1387 solsticionc1400 standing of the sun?1440 solstitium?1521 stay of the sun1538 solstacionc1540 sunstay1545 conversion1553 staying of the sun1555 solstitial1561 solsticy1570 trope1599 solstead1601 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 327 In þe somer tyme aboute þe styntynge of þe sonne. 2. concrete. (See quot. 1889.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > common or unenclosed land > portion of furlong12.. dalec1241 dole1523 flat1523 stintagea1642 stintinga1642 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > systems of tenure stintagea1642 stintinga1642 take1794 tenantry1794 crofting1851 mezzadria1875 métayage1877 crofterization1907 crofterizing1908 a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 122 In the middle field beyond Keldiegate where the flatte runnes out, that is called the stintinge, and that which is up towards the Spellowe heads is sayd to bee above the stintinge. 1669 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1886) IV. That is to say, two lands and one gaire, part thereof lying on the west stintinge of the Wetlands of Thirske. 1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Stinting, a portion of the common meadow set apart for the use of one person... In an Amcotts rental of the sixteenth century, I have met with a place called the ‘upper stinting’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). stintingadj. That stints. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [adjective] sparingc1386 savingc1440 husbandlya1450 husbandlike1542 spareful1565 chary1570 dainty1576 partial1576 spare1577 parsimonious?1591 spary1601 scant1603 wary1605 frugala1616 spare-handed1626 squeasy1628 canny1725 scrimp1728 scrimping1823 sparesome1864 stinting1867 hard-arsed1893 1867 Morning Star 12 Mar. The..dilution..requires to be added with a stinting hand. Derivatives ˈstintingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [adverb] gnedelyc1000 fastinglya1425 scantlyc1440 sparinglyc1450 husbandly1532 savingly1534 sparely1559 charily1577 frugally1597 sparing1623 stintingly1857 1857 ‘G. Eliot’ Scenes Clerical Life (1858) II. 176 He often ate his dinner stintingly, oppressed by the thought that there were men, women, and children, with no dinner to sit down to. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1338adj.1857 |
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