| 单词 | the watches of the night |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe watches of the night 4. [translating Latin vigilia, Greek ϕυλακή, Hebrew ashmōreth.] Each of the (three, four, or five) periods into which the night was anciently divided. Now often in collective plural, the watches of the night, used rhetorically for ‘the night-time’.The Hebrews divided the night into three watches, the Greeks usually into four (sometimes five), the Romans (followed by the Jews in New Testament times) into four. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > watch or period into which night was divided watchc1000 night watchOE quarterc1330 vigilc1380 wakingc1384 quarter-nightc1390 morning watch1535 the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] nighteOE nightertalec1300 darkc1400 nightertimec1425 night-timec1430 night-tidea1500 night-season1530 darkmans?1536 Nox1567 moonshine1652 darkie?1738 the watches of the night1826 nite1928 bat-flight1934 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 388 Drihten com to his leorning~cnihtum..on ðære feorðan wæccan. An wæcce hæfð þreo tida; feower wæccan gefyllað twelf tida; swa fela tida hæfð seo niht. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 38 Gif he cymð on þære æfteran wæccan, oððe on þære þriddan. [So Tindale and all later versions; Wyclif has wakynge.] 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. SSSiii In iewry..the nyght was deuided in to .iiii. partes, whiche they called .iiii. watches. The firste was, from the begynnyng of the nyght vnto .ix. of the clocke. The seconde, from .ix. to .xii. The thirde, from .xii. to .iii. And the fourthe from .iii. to .vi. of the clocke. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xiv. 24 Whan the mornynge watch came, the Lorde loked vpon the armies of the Egipcians. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 158 As he whose brow (with homely biggen bound) Snores out the watch of night. View more context for this quotation 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 119 The day was not diuided of the first Hebrewes..into houres, but was distinguished by Vigiliæ, or Watches, of which they had foure. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. i. 125 At this odde Euen and dull watch o' th' night. 1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example iv. i. 51 Fan. Well, my dear, it begins to grow late, and it's time I shou'd leave you. Mrs. Fan. It do's indeed, Husband, I believe the first watch is expir'd. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xv. 100 When the Company had retired the Evening before, the Thief was detained in a Room where the Constable, and one of the young Fellows who took him, were planted as his Guard. About the second Watch, a general Complaint of Drowth was made. View more context for this quotation 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 21 Jan. (1939) 74 The watches of the night pass wearily when disturbd by fruitless regrets. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxix. 134 Come: not in watches of the night, But where the sunbeam broodeth warm. View more context for this quotation 1883 R. Broughton Belinda I. i. viii. 137 How can she hurry the pace? she asks herself desperately, in the watches of the night. < as lemmas |
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