单词 | stumbling |
释义 | stumblingn. The action of stumble v., in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stumbling stumblinga1400 snappering1591 tripping1594 stumble1641 cespitation1654 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working blunderingc1440 blunt-workingc1440 bumbling1533 stumbling1569 bumble1621 bodging1634 budgelling1657 bungling1663 boggling1834 bunglery1837 muffing1841 perpetration1849 foozling1927 muck-up1942 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > finding a stumbling-block stumbling1611 a1400–50 Wars Alex. 2623 Þare was stomling of stedis sticking of erles. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 598 He tolde him also without anye stayeng or stomblyng,..the names of all the colours that coulde be shewed him. a1600 King & Barker 106 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 9 With a stombellyng as he rode the thanner downe he [sc. the horse] cast. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 John ii. 10 Hee that loueth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. View more context for this quotation 1657 T. Hobbes Στιγμαι 4 I noted it only that you may be more merciful hereafter to the stumblings of a hasty Pen. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 36 To entice My stumblings down some monstrous precipice. 1873 G. S. Baden-Powell New Homes for Old Country 184 Stumblings and injuries to legs are of remarkably rare occurrence. 1892–3 J. A. Froude Lect. Council Trent (1896) vi. 134 There was stumbling again at the power of the keys, and at the splendour and assumptions of the hierarchy. Compounds stumbling-shoe n. a horseshoe devised to prevent stumbling. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > horseshoe > types of horseshoe remove1512 lunette1566 half-moon shoe1607 pancelet1607 plate1607 patten shoe1639 linnet-hole1662 cross-bar shoe1675 interfering shoe1678 pantofle shoe1696 panton shoe1696 cutting-shoe1711 skim1795 skimmer1801 bar-shoe1831 sandal1831 tip1831 racket1846 hipposandal1847 slipper1903 stumbling-shoe1908 mud-shoe1940 1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 367 Stumbling shoes, 244 [In text: Shoes to obviate stumbling]. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle hinderc1200 withsetting1340 obstaclec1385 traversea1393 mara1400 bayc1440 stoppagec1450 barrace1480 blocka1500 objecta1500 clog1526 stumbling-stone1526 bar1530 (to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548 stumbling-stock1548 hindrance1576 a log in one's way1579 crossbar1582 log1589 rub1589 threshold1600 scotch1601 dam1602 remora1604 obex1611 obstructiona1616 stumbling-blocka1616 fence1639 affront1642 retardance1645 stick1645 balk1660 obstruent1669 blockade1683 sprun1684 spoke1689 cross cause1696 uncomplaisance1707 barrier1712 obstruct1747 dike1770 abatis1808 underbrush1888 bunker1900 bump1909 sprag1914 hurdle1924 headwind1927 mudhole1933 monkey wrench1937 roadblock1945 1548 R. Crowley Informacion & Peticion sig. Biv Immodeste and wanton gyrles haue hereby ben made sisters of the Banck (the stumbling stock of all frayle youth). 1569 T. Roest tr. J. van der Noot Theatre Worldlings 31 Christ is that stumbling stocke, and the stone of offense, whereat the world stumbled. c1630 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1714) II. 150 Richard Hooker..wrote a Book intitled The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, a great Stumbling-Stock to many, and not answered by any. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali II. iii. 156 Many of which have long been stumbling-stocks to the philologist. stumbling-stone n. = stumbling-block n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle hinderc1200 withsetting1340 obstaclec1385 traversea1393 mara1400 bayc1440 stoppagec1450 barrace1480 blocka1500 objecta1500 clog1526 stumbling-stone1526 bar1530 (to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548 stumbling-stock1548 hindrance1576 a log in one's way1579 crossbar1582 log1589 rub1589 threshold1600 scotch1601 dam1602 remora1604 obex1611 obstructiona1616 stumbling-blocka1616 fence1639 affront1642 retardance1645 stick1645 balk1660 obstruent1669 blockade1683 sprun1684 spoke1689 cross cause1696 uncomplaisance1707 barrier1712 obstruct1747 dike1770 abatis1808 underbrush1888 bunker1900 bump1909 sprag1914 hurdle1924 headwind1927 mudhole1933 monkey wrench1937 roadblock1945 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. ix. 33 Beholde I put in syon a stomblynge stone and a rocke which shall make men faule [Gk. λίθον προσκόμματος καὶ πέτραν σκανδάλου]. 1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 34 God he is all that layis ane stumling stane, Quhilk may the cause be of our bretheringis fall. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 294 The regularity of the universe was always a great stumbling-stone to the Epicuræans. 1782 W. Cowper tr. V. Bourne Glow-worm in W. Cowper Poems 336 Nor crush a worm, whose useful light Might serve..To shew a stumbling stone by night. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard (1894) ii. i. 47 Some scurril children that lurked near Set there by Satan for my stumbling-stone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2021). stumblingadj. That stumbles, in various senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adjective] > leading to error stumblingc1425 seducive1774 seductive1782 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > stumbling stumbling1538 tripping1577 snappering1596 stumbly1890 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] wanmola1325 rudea1393 lewdc1425 rustyc1425 unpolisheda1450 roidc1485 inelegant1509 gross1513 rough?1520 barbarous1526 ineloquent1532 inconcinnate1534 crabby1550 crabbed1561 uneloquent1565 unelegant1570 unkempt1579 unfiled1590 illiterate1598 unconceived1599 aliterate1624 incompta1628 scabbed1630 uncombed1633 uncompt1633 uncouth1694 coarse1699 slatternly1783 crude1786 warty1822 stumbling1859 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward > blundering, stumbling, or floundering > of actions, etc. baulteringa1704 stumbling1859 c1425 Cast. Persev. 1042 [Avaricia loquitur:] Þerfore, Pryde, good broþyr,..late Iche of vs take at othyr, & set Mankynde on a stomlynge stol. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Suffossus equus, a stumblynge horse. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 231 Her stombling steppe somewhat her amazed. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 383/1 Confragosus locus,..a rough, rugged, rockie or stumbling ground: vphill and downehill. 1727 Country-post in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 290 There have died of the falling Sickness two stumbling Horses, as also one of their Riders. 1859 E. C. Gaskell Haunted House: Ghost in Garden Room in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 13 Dec. 42/2 Then she heard him..go down stairs, with hurried, stumbling steps. 1859 Habits Good Society xv. 372 The tearful, stumbling speeches of ‘dear papa’ after champagne [at the wedding breakfast]. a1893 C. Rossetti Poems (1904) 209/1 Is there a path to Heaven My stumbling foot may tread? 1905 F. Treves Other Side of Lantern (1906) ii. xxvii. 164 Everywhere is the figure of the devout offering his stumbling prayer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400adj.c1425 |
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