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单词 swepe
释义

swepen.1

Forms: Old English swipu, swipe ( suib-, swiop-, suiop-, sweop-, suyppu, swypu), Middle English swepe, (Middle English swupe, Middle English suepe, Middle English swip).
Etymology: Old English swipu strong feminine, swipe weak feminine, corresponding to Old Norse svipa strong feminine, whip, < weak grade of Germanic swaip- : sweip- : swip- : see swope v.1 and compare swaip n., swape n.
Obsolete.
A scourge, whip.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge
swepea700
scourgea1225
whipc1325
swaipa1400
flagellec1430
flail?a1475
foueta1492
scorpion1541
lash1577
sot1588
thong1592
chawbuck1698
knout1716
taw1787
flagellum1807
a700 Epinal Gloss. 641 Mastigia, suipan [Erfurt suibae].
c975 Rushw. Gosp. John ii. 15 Cum fecisset quasi flagellum de funiculis, miððy giworhte swelce swiopa [Ags. Gosp. swipe] of rapun.
a1000 Solomon & Saturn 121 Swiðmode sweopan.
a1175 Cott. Hom. 231 Mid gode repples and stiarne swepen.
a1175 Cott. Hom. 239 Þe weregede gastes þe hine uniredlice underfangeð min stiarne swupen.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15562 Crist himm wrohhte an swepe þær..& draf hemm alle samenn ut.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19355 For þan wit suepes þai þam suang, And scurged sare, þai let þam gang.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 302 Blo and blody thus am I bett, Swongen with swepys and all to-swett.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

swepen.2

Etymology: Obscure; possibly an early instance of sweep n. in figurative sense.
Obsolete.
? Scope, significance (of a dream).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > interpretation of dreams > [noun] > significance of a dream
swepea1325
wielda1325
meaningc1384
sense1584
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2112 Ðes dremes swep ne wot he nogt.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2086 ‘Me wore leuere’, quad Ioseph, ‘Of eddi dremes rechen swep.’
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 248 For þai can swyth of a sweuyn all þe swepe telle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

swepev.

Forms: Also 1700s Scottish sweap.
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: swepe n.1
Etymology: ? < swepe n.1 or < Old Norse svipa to whip. Compare swip v.
Obsolete.
transitive. To scourge.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge
swingc725
scourc1386
whipc1386
lash1398
bescourgea1400
swaipa1400
flail14..
belash1458
stripec1460
leash1503
flagelle1551
swingea1556
breech1573
lace1599
flagellate1623
slash1631
chawbuck1682
innocentize1708
swepe1710
belace1736
screenge1787
yedder1818
stock-whip1852
rawhide1858
1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. at Sweap Swipper, Sweap, Scot.,..signifying to scourge.

Derivatives

sweping n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging > instance of
swepinga1300
stripec1485
flagellation1490
whipping1566
whipping-cheer1578
to have a rod under (also at) one's girdle1580
switchinga1640
horsewhipping1829
rawhiding1848
bashing1877
a1300 E.E. Psalter xxxiv. [xxxv.] 15 Samened on me swepinges [L. flagella].
a1300 E.E. Psalter xxxvii[i]. 18 [17] In swepinges am I dight.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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