| 单词 | the springing of the year |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe springing of the year b. The beginning of the year; the season of spring. Also: the beginning of a particular season or era. Also figurative. Frequently in the springing of the year. Cf. spring n.1 16, spring n.1 17. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [noun] > beginning or end of a period terminusOE springinga1398 topc1440 fresh1566 front1609 skirt1624 epoch1673 turn1697 terminus post quem1834 terminus ante quem1858 the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring LenteneOE LentlOE warea1300 verec1325 vera1382 vere-time1382 springing timea1387 springinga1398 springa1400 prime tempsa1425 the spring of the year1481 grass1485 springtime1495 prime time1503 sap-time?1523 spring tide1530 (the) spring of the leaf1538 prime1541 prime tide1549 voar1629 vernal season1644 vernal1654 outcome1672 Lent term1691 blossom-time1713 open water1759 rabi1783 budding-timea1807 ware-time1820 growing season1845 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. ii. 890 Trees þat needeþ to be sette beþ in spryngynge [emended in ed. to beþ moste sette in spryngynge tyme; v.r. springinge tyme; L. vere], and þat for temperate hete. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxiii. f. cliiiiv In the spryngynge of somer folowynge his Coronacion, Odo Byssop of Bayou,..come into Englande. 1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Bviv The first springing of the empyre of Mahomete. a1645 Sonnet in W. Strode Poet. Wks. (1907) 123 Mourne, mourne, yee lovers: sadly singing Love hath his Winter, and no springing. 1649 W. Cradock Divine Drops 45 God saith that grace is like the springing of the sea; or the springing of the yeer. 1755 J. Checkley Day of Darkness 11 Rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, are great smiles of providence; and when God gives both the former, and the latter rain in their season, blessing the springing of the year. 1847 A. J. W. Morrison tr. F. von Schlegel Philos. Life & Philos. Lang. x. 211 That intellectual superiority and civilisation which they owe to this springing of a new era. c1890 S. Baring-Gould & H. F. Sheppard Songs & Ballads of West ii. 35 'Twas in the springing of the year, In eighteen hundred two. 1913 R. Frost Boy's Will (1915) 7 Keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. 2003 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 43 672 It all seems to happen..faster than the imperceptible springing of the year could ever come over an observed landscape. < as lemmas |
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