thewn.¹

Brit.

/θjuː/, U.S.

/θ(j)u/

Forms: Old English–Middle English þeaw, þeau, (Old English ðeow), Middle English þæw, Middle English þew, þewe, Middle English þeauw, þeuw, þeæw, þeu, Middle English theaw, Middle English theu, thue, Middle English–1800s thewe, (Middle English thegh), Middle English– thew.

Etymology: Old English þéaw = Old Saxon thau usage, custom, habit, Old High German thau (dau) discipline. Not recorded outside West Germanic languages. Ulterior etymology uncertain.

†1.

a. A custom, usage, general practice (e.g. of a people, community, or class). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group

i-wunec888

thewc893

wise971

law of (the) landc1175

customa1200

wonec1200

tidingc1275

orderc1300

usancea1325

usagec1330

usea1393

guisea1400

spacec1400

stylec1430

rite1467

fashion1490

frequentation1525

institution1551

tradition1597

mode1642

shibboleth1804

dastur1888

praxis1892

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. x. §2 Siþþan wæs hiera þeaw.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xix. 40 Sua ðeau Iuðeum [Rushw. ðeow iudea, Ags. Gosp. iudea þ[e]aw, Hatton G. iudea þæw] is bybyrge.

OE Beowulf 360 Cuþe he duguðe þeaw.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 47 Wich þeau was on þe olde laȝe.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 47 Swich þeu wes bi þan daȝen.

†b. plural. Customs ordained; ordinances. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment > an ordinance or authoritative utterance

setnessc950

sandc1000

edict1297

statutec1300

proclamationa1325

justifyinga1382

rescritec1384

decree?a1400

thewsc1400

justification?a1475

ordinationc1499

dictamena1513

golden bull1537

dictate1604

process1604

dictament1615

dictation1651

fiata1750

diktat1941

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 755.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 544 In de-voydynge þe vylanye þat venkquyst his þewez.

1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant vii. 7 Thy sacred Thewes, and sweet Instructions, did Helpe those were falling, rays'd up such as slid.

†2.

a. A custom or habit of an individual; manner of behaving or acting; hence, a personal quality (mental or moral); a characteristic, attribute, trait. Chiefly in plural. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] > distinguishing feature

thewc888

qualitya1400

vein1536

trick1608

idiosyncrasy1661

personality1710

turn1729

trait1752

character trait1792

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice

thewc888

customa1200

wonec1200

moursc1250

usec1384

usancea1393

usagea1400

stylec1430

practice1502

commona1525

frequentation1525

ordinary1526

trade?1543

vein1549

habit1581

rut1581

habitude1603

mores1648

tread1817

dastur1888

c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxvii. §2 Wisdom..ælces godes þeawes he gefyllð þone þe hine lufað.

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. vi. xiv. §1 He wæs swiþe yfel monn ealra þeawa.

971 Blickl. Hom. 217 Wæs he swiðe geþungen on his ðeawum.

c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxxi. 5 Ic geseo on eowres fader þeawum, þat he nys swa wel wið me geworht.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7328 I dærne unnclene þohht. & þæw.

c1230 Hali Meid. 3 Euch meiden þat haueð meidene þeawes.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3171 Morpidus..monnene strengest. of maine and of þeauwe.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xv. 33 Forsoth yuele spechis corumpen (or distroyen) goode thewis (or vertues).

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1947 To doghty thues lok þou þe gif.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 112 The vertues cardinalis..reule of all vertues and gude thewis as kingis.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 211 A man may not fynde in no beste, custume ne thegh, wyche is noght in a man.

?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 44 Full of eldnyng..and anger and all euill thewis.

1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Clarence xviii In vertuous thewes.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y4^v Helena..In all godly thewes, and goodly praise, Did far excell.

1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xviii. 362 In martial thewes and manly discipline, To train the sons of Owen.

†b. Without qualification: A good quality or habit; a virtue; courteous or gracious action. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > [noun] > a virtue

goodOE

custOE

goodnessOE

mightOE

thew?c1225

virtuec1225

gracea1393

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 204 Þis þeau [humility] is alre þeawene moder.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 152 Þis child leuede & wel iþei & þeweas [c1300 Otho þeuwes] hit luuede.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2757 Hu a gunge man at te welle[n] Ðewe and wursipe hem dede.

1357 Lay Folks Catech. 406 The third vertu or thew is charite.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20996 A man o mekenes and o theu.

c1450 (c1400) Emaré (1908) 58 She thawȝth [= tawȝt] hyt curtesye and thewe, Golde and sylke for to sewe.

1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. U.j This poeticall licence..turkeneth all things at pleasure, for example, ydone for done,..thewes for good partes or good qualities.

3. plural. Physical good qualities, features, or personal endowments.

†a. generally (e.g. the fair features or lineaments of a woman). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > specifically of humans

fairnessOE

beautya1350

looksc1400

pertnessc1450

well-favouredness1545

thews1567

good looks1591

bonniness1603

good-lookingness1828

1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 94^v Dost thou thinke..that doltish sielie man, The thewes of Helens passing forme may iudge, or throughly scan?

1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 120 I leaue her thewes untoucht, wherein she may compare With heauenly Peeres, such feature falles on earthly creatures rare.

b. The bodily powers or forces of a man (Latin vires), might, strength, vigour; in Shakespeare, bodily proportions, lineaments, or parts, as indicating physical strength; in modern use after Scott, muscular development, associated with sinews, and hence materialized as if = muscles or tendons. Also in singular and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [noun]

mighteOE

avelOE

mainOE

strengthOE

virtuec1330

forcea1375

birr1382

valure1440

firmitude?1541

thews1566

iron1695

invalescence1755

physicals1824

beef1851

the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [noun]

mouseOE

musclea1398

lacerta1400

fillet1541

musculage1547

musculus1565

lizard1574

flesh-string1587

bower1590

muscling1766

thews1817

myon1888

1566 T. Nuce tr. Octavia i. iv. B iij b Ere while thilke wretch recoyleth backe againe, And to my thews for ayde retyres amaine.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 255 Care I for the limbe, the thewes, the stature, bulke and big assemblance of a man: giue me the spirit.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 12 Nature cressant does not growe alone In thewes and bulkes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 80 Romans now Haue Thewes, and Limbes, like to their Ancestors.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvii. 397 He should on bulkier thewes Supported stand [cf. Pope IV. xvii. 143 If any labour those big joints could learn].

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. iii. 60 My fellow traveller, to judge by his thewes and sinews, was a man who might have set danger at defiance.

1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. vi. 100 A man who values his kind mainly by their thews and their sinews.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam ci. 157 I felt the thews of Anakim, The pulses of a Titan's heart.

c1863 E. Dickinson Poems (1955) II. 512 Thigh of Granite—and thew—of Steel.

1873 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 233 A floating flag is like wind visible and what weeds are in a current; it gives it thew and fires it and bloods it in.

1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xvi, in Poems (1967) 56 He was pitched to his death at a blow, For all his dreadnought breast and braids of thew.

1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. i. 24 Nature has been kinder to your brother in the matter of thew and sinew.

1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 77 A Hercules of matchless thew Whose body is the breath of flowers.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Sept. 40/3 By ‘language’ he means not the whole body of speech, the thew and sinew of the language..but a precursor's language.

c. figurative. Applied to cords or ropes.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line

stringa900

soleOE

funela1400

tow1513

rope1720

tug1805

thews1851

jeff1854

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvi. 77 Bulwarks..garnished..with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale,..to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to. Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory.

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† thewn.²

Brit.

/θjuː/, U.S.

/θ(j)u/

Forms: Also Middle English theu, Middle English–1500s thewe.

Etymology: Known before 1250: etymology obscure; apparently < thew v., in sense ‘chastise’; but Old English þýwan , þéowan ‘to press, squeeze, compress’ is also a possible source. The forms are identical with contemporary ones of thew n.¹

Obsolete.

Name of an instrument or apparatus of punishment ordained, instead of the pillory, for women; often identified with the cucking-stool n. Also in combination thewpenny (cf. burghal-penny n.).The medieval Latin equivalent was collistrigium, i.e. an iron collar compressing and confining the neck.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > stool or ducking-stool

cuck-stool1200

thewc1273

cucking-stoolc1308

stoolc1308

pining-stoolc1400

scolding stool1474

tumbrila1513

cuckle-stool1592

ducking-stool1597

gum-stool1623

trebucheta1641

gumble-stool1653

gogingstool1679

ducking tumbrel1688

c1273 in W. Illingworth Rotuli Hundredorum (1818) II. 302/2 (Bassetlaw, Notts) Tempore domini Walteri de Gray [a 1256]..levatum fuit le theu primo in villis ejusdem Archiepiscopi..jam xxx annis elapsis.

1287 Plac. de Quo Warranto (1818) 11/1 Ibi habet tantummodo tumberellum et thewe.

1287 Plac. de Quo Warranto (1818) 11/2 Cum soca et saka..boruhapeny et theupeny.

1290–1 Ipswich Domesday lxxiv, in Blk. Bk. Admir. (Rolls) II. 164 Femmes qe sunt communs tenceresses..seyent eles chastiez par la juyse qe [est] apele le theu.

1364 Lett.-Bk. G. London lf. 137 Consideratum fuit..quod præfata Alicia subhiat judicium cullistr' pro mulieribus inde ordinat' vocata la Thewe [tr. Riley Mem. (1868) 319 That the said Alice should undergo the punishment of the pillory for women ordained, called the thewe.]

1391 Lett.-Bk. H. London lf. 258 b Quod eadem Isabella ponatur super le Thewe pro mulieribus ordinat'..ibidem moratura per unam horam diei [tr. p. 526, that she should be put upon the thewe, for women ordained, for one hour of the day].

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 490/2 Thewe, or pylory, collistrigium.

c1450 Surtees Misc. (1888) 60 Y^e sayd Burgese schall..ordan a pelory and a thew, lawfull and strang.

1483 Cath. Angl. 382/2 A Thewe, tripotheum (A. Collistrigium, et cetera).

15.. in MS. Harl. 2115 lf. 77 Punire per iudicium de Thewe, hoc est ponere eas super Scabellum vocatum Cokestolle.

1533 Surtees Misc. (1888) 34 She shalnot chyde ne flyte,..oppen ridyng of the jebit, or thew, aboute the towne.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xix. i. 310 It is not lawfull for anie subiect..to..set vp furels, tumbrell, thew, or pillorie.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Thew, an old Word for a Cucking Stool.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† thewv.

Forms: In early Middle English þæwen, past participle i-þæwed, i-þeuwed.

Etymology: apparently < Old English þéaw, thew n.¹

Obsolete.

transitive. To instruct in morals or manners; to discipline, train, instruct, chastise. In quots. a1250 and c1305 it may possibly represent or be influenced by Old English þýwan, þýȝan, þéowan to press, oppress, repress, threaten, rebuke, which otherwise does not appear to have come down into Middle English.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > [verb (transitive)]

tighta1000

teec1000

thewc1175

forma1340

informc1350

nurturec1475

train1531

breeda1568

train1600

to lick (a person or thing) into (shape , etc.)1612

scholar1807

educate1826

society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > inflict disciplinary or corrective punishment

thewc1175

castea1200

chaste?c1225

amendc1300

chastyc1320

chastise1362

corrigec1374

correct1377

scourgec1384

disple1492

orderc1515

nurturec1520

chasten1526

whip1530

discipline1557

school1559

swinge1560

penance1580

disciple1596

castigatea1616

to serve out1829

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6217 & ȝunnc birrþ nimenn mikell gom To þæwenn ȝunnkerr chilldre.

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 93 Tu ne schuldes nawt chastie for hare gultes. ne þeawe þine seruanz.

c1305 Pilat 57 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 112 Þo þ'emperour ihurde þat he miȝte þat liþere folc so þewe, He ne huld non so queynte man as he huld þe schrewe.

c1422 T. Hoccleve Learn to Die 83 And thee the bettre for to thewe, The misterie of my lore y shal the shewe.

1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. iv. xxvii. 53 Although some Fathers were no better Cosmographers then to think this; yet for the most part they were better thewed.

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> see also

also refers to : theowthewn.adj.

also refers to : † theowthewv.

n.¹c888

n.²c1273

v.c1175

单词	thew
释义	thewn.¹ Brit. /θjuː/, U.S. /θ(j)u/ Forms: Old English–Middle English þeaw, þeau, (Old English ðeow), Middle English þæw, Middle English þew, þewe, Middle English þeauw, þeuw, þeæw, þeu, Middle English theaw, Middle English theu, thue, Middle English–1800s thewe, (Middle English thegh), Middle English– thew. Etymology: Old English þéaw = Old Saxon thau usage, custom, habit, Old High German thau (dau) discipline. Not recorded outside West Germanic languages. Ulterior etymology uncertain. †1. a. A custom, usage, general practice (e.g. of a people, community, or class). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group i-wunec888 thewc893 wise971 law of (the) landc1175 customa1200 wonec1200 tidingc1275 orderc1300 usancea1325 usagec1330 usea1393 guisea1400 spacec1400 stylec1430 rite1467 fashion1490 frequentation1525 institution1551 tradition1597 mode1642 shibboleth1804 dastur1888 praxis1892 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. x. §2 Siþþan wæs hiera þeaw. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xix. 40 Sua ðeau Iuðeum [Rushw. ðeow iudea, Ags. Gosp. iudea þ[e]aw, Hatton G. iudea þæw] is bybyrge. OE Beowulf 360 Cuþe he duguðe þeaw. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 47 Wich þeau was on þe olde laȝe. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 47 Swich þeu wes bi þan daȝen. †b. plural. Customs ordained; ordinances. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment > an ordinance or authoritative utterance setnessc950 sandc1000 edict1297 statutec1300 proclamationa1325 justifyinga1382 rescritec1384 decree?a1400 thewsc1400 justification?a1475 ordinationc1499 dictamena1513 golden bull1537 dictate1604 process1604 dictament1615 dictation1651 fiata1750 diktat1941 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 755. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 544 In de-voydynge þe vylanye þat venkquyst his þewez. 1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant vii. 7 Thy sacred Thewes, and sweet Instructions, did Helpe those were falling, rays'd up such as slid. †2. a. A custom or habit of an individual; manner of behaving or acting; hence, a personal quality (mental or moral); a characteristic, attribute, trait. Chiefly in plural. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] > distinguishing feature thewc888 qualitya1400 vein1536 trick1608 idiosyncrasy1661 personality1710 turn1729 trait1752 character trait1792 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice thewc888 customa1200 wonec1200 moursc1250 usec1384 usancea1393 usagea1400 stylec1430 practice1502 commona1525 frequentation1525 ordinary1526 trade?1543 vein1549 habit1581 rut1581 habitude1603 mores1648 tread1817 dastur1888 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxvii. §2 Wisdom..ælces godes þeawes he gefyllð þone þe hine lufað. c893 tr. Orosius Hist. vi. xiv. §1 He wæs swiþe yfel monn ealra þeawa. 971 Blickl. Hom. 217 Wæs he swiðe geþungen on his ðeawum. c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxxi. 5 Ic geseo on eowres fader þeawum, þat he nys swa wel wið me geworht. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7328 I dærne unnclene þohht. & þæw. c1230 Hali Meid. 3 Euch meiden þat haueð meidene þeawes. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3171 Morpidus..monnene strengest. of maine and of þeauwe. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xv. 33 Forsoth yuele spechis corumpen (or distroyen) goode thewis (or vertues). a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1947 To doghty thues lok þou þe gif. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 112 The vertues cardinalis..reule of all vertues and gude thewis as kingis. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 211 A man may not fynde in no beste, custume ne thegh, wyche is noght in a man. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 44 Full of eldnyng..and anger and all euill thewis. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Clarence xviii In vertuous thewes. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y4^v Helena..In all godly thewes, and goodly praise, Did far excell. 1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xviii. 362 In martial thewes and manly discipline, To train the sons of Owen. †b. Without qualification: A good quality or habit; a virtue; courteous or gracious action. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [noun] > a virtue goodOE custOE goodnessOE mightOE mightOE thew?c1225 virtuec1225 gracea1393 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 204 Þis þeau [humility] is alre þeawene moder. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 152 Þis child leuede & wel iþei & þeweas [c1300 Otho þeuwes] hit luuede. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2757 Hu a gunge man at te welle[n] Ðewe and wursipe hem dede. 1357 Lay Folks Catech. 406 The third vertu or thew is charite. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20996 A man o mekenes and o theu. c1450 (c1400) Emaré (1908) 58 She thawȝth [= tawȝt] hyt curtesye and thewe, Golde and sylke for to sewe. 1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. U.j This poeticall licence..turkeneth all things at pleasure, for example, ydone for done,..thewes for good partes or good qualities. 3. plural. Physical good qualities, features, or personal endowments. †a. generally (e.g. the fair features or lineaments of a woman). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > specifically of humans fairnessOE beautya1350 looksc1400 pertnessc1450 well-favouredness1545 thews1567 good looks1591 bonniness1603 good-lookingness1828 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 94^v Dost thou thinke..that doltish sielie man, The thewes of Helens passing forme may iudge, or throughly scan? 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 120 I leaue her thewes untoucht, wherein she may compare With heauenly Peeres, such feature falles on earthly creatures rare. b. The bodily powers or forces of a man (Latin vires), might, strength, vigour; in Shakespeare, bodily proportions, lineaments, or parts, as indicating physical strength; in modern use after Scott, muscular development, associated with sinews, and hence materialized as if = muscles or tendons. Also in singular and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [noun] mighteOE avelOE mainOE strengthOE strengthOE virtuec1330 forcea1375 birr1382 valure1440 firmitude?1541 thews1566 iron1695 invalescence1755 physicals1824 beef1851 the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [noun] mouseOE musclea1398 lacerta1400 fillet1541 musculage1547 musculus1565 lizard1574 flesh-string1587 bower1590 muscling1766 thews1817 myon1888 1566 T. Nuce tr. Octavia i. iv. B iij b Ere while thilke wretch recoyleth backe againe, And to my thews for ayde retyres amaine. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 255 Care I for the limbe, the thewes, the stature, bulke and big assemblance of a man: giue me the spirit. View more context for this quotation 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 12 Nature cressant does not growe alone In thewes and bulkes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 80 Romans now Haue Thewes, and Limbes, like to their Ancestors. View more context for this quotation 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvii. 397 He should on bulkier thewes Supported stand [cf. Pope IV. xvii. 143 If any labour those big joints could learn]. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. iii. 60 My fellow traveller, to judge by his thewes and sinews, was a man who might have set danger at defiance. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. vi. 100 A man who values his kind mainly by their thews and their sinews. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam ci. 157 I felt the thews of Anakim, The pulses of a Titan's heart. View more context for this quotation c1863 E. Dickinson Poems (1955) II. 512 Thigh of Granite—and thew—of Steel. 1873 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 233 A floating flag is like wind visible and what weeds are in a current; it gives it thew and fires it and bloods it in. 1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xvi, in Poems (1967) 56 He was pitched to his death at a blow, For all his dreadnought breast and braids of thew. 1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. i. 24 Nature has been kinder to your brother in the matter of thew and sinew. 1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 77 A Hercules of matchless thew Whose body is the breath of flowers. 1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Sept. 40/3 By ‘language’ he means not the whole body of speech, the thew and sinew of the language..but a precursor's language. c. figurative. Applied to cords or ropes. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line stringa900 soleOE funela1400 tow1513 rope1720 tug1805 thews1851 jeff1854 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvi. 77 Bulwarks..garnished..with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale,..to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to. Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † thewn.² Brit. /θjuː/, U.S. /θ(j)u/ Forms: Also Middle English theu, Middle English–1500s thewe. Etymology: Known before 1250: etymology obscure; apparently < thew v., in sense ‘chastise’; but Old English þýwan , þéowan ‘to press, squeeze, compress’ is also a possible source. The forms are identical with contemporary ones of thew n.¹ Obsolete. Name of an instrument or apparatus of punishment ordained, instead of the pillory, for women; often identified with the cucking-stool n. Also in combination thewpenny (cf. burghal-penny n.).The medieval Latin equivalent was collistrigium, i.e. an iron collar compressing and confining the neck. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > stool or ducking-stool cuck-stool1200 thewc1273 cucking-stoolc1308 stoolc1308 pining-stoolc1400 scolding stool1474 tumbrila1513 cuckle-stool1592 ducking-stool1597 gum-stool1623 trebucheta1641 gumble-stool1653 gogingstool1679 ducking tumbrel1688 c1273 in W. Illingworth Rotuli Hundredorum (1818) II. 302/2 (Bassetlaw, Notts) Tempore domini Walteri de Gray [a 1256]..levatum fuit le theu primo in villis ejusdem Archiepiscopi..jam xxx annis elapsis. 1287 Plac. de Quo Warranto (1818) 11/1 Ibi habet tantummodo tumberellum et thewe. 1287 Plac. de Quo Warranto (1818) 11/2 Cum soca et saka..boruhapeny et theupeny. 1290–1 Ipswich Domesday lxxiv, in Blk. Bk. Admir. (Rolls) II. 164 Femmes qe sunt communs tenceresses..seyent eles chastiez par la juyse qe [est] apele le theu. 1364 Lett.-Bk. G. London lf. 137 Consideratum fuit..quod præfata Alicia subhiat judicium cullistr' pro mulieribus inde ordinat' vocata la Thewe [tr. Riley Mem. (1868) 319 That the said Alice should undergo the punishment of the pillory for women ordained, called the thewe.] 1391 Lett.-Bk. H. London lf. 258 b Quod eadem Isabella ponatur super le Thewe pro mulieribus ordinat'..ibidem moratura per unam horam diei [tr. p. 526, that she should be put upon the thewe, for women ordained, for one hour of the day]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 490/2 Thewe, or pylory, collistrigium. c1450 Surtees Misc. (1888) 60 Y^e sayd Burgese schall..ordan a pelory and a thew, lawfull and strang. 1483 Cath. Angl. 382/2 A Thewe, tripotheum (A. Collistrigium, et cetera). 15.. in MS. Harl. 2115 lf. 77 Punire per iudicium de Thewe, hoc est ponere eas super Scabellum vocatum Cokestolle. 1533 Surtees Misc. (1888) 34 She shalnot chyde ne flyte,..oppen ridyng of the jebit, or thew, aboute the towne. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xix. i. 310 It is not lawfull for anie subiect..to..set vp furels, tumbrell, thew, or pillorie. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Thew, an old Word for a Cucking Stool. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † thewv. Forms: In early Middle English þæwen, past participle i-þæwed, i-þeuwed. Etymology: apparently < Old English þéaw, thew n.¹ Obsolete. transitive. To instruct in morals or manners; to discipline, train, instruct, chastise. In quots. a1250 and c1305 it may possibly represent or be influenced by Old English þýwan, þýȝan, þéowan to press, oppress, repress, threaten, rebuke, which otherwise does not appear to have come down into Middle English. ΘΚΠ society > education > [verb (transitive)] tighta1000 teec1000 thewc1175 forma1340 informc1350 nurturec1475 train1531 breeda1568 train1600 to lick (a person or thing) into (shape , etc.)1612 scholar1807 educate1826 society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > inflict disciplinary or corrective punishment thewc1175 castea1200 chaste?c1225 amendc1300 chastyc1320 chastise1362 corrigec1374 correct1377 scourgec1384 disple1492 orderc1515 nurturec1520 chasten1526 whip1530 discipline1557 school1559 swinge1560 penance1580 disciple1596 castigatea1616 to serve out1829 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6217 & ȝunnc birrþ nimenn mikell gom To þæwenn ȝunnkerr chilldre. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 93 Tu ne schuldes nawt chastie for hare gultes. ne þeawe þine seruanz. c1305 Pilat 57 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 112 Þo þ'emperour ihurde þat he miȝte þat liþere folc so þewe, He ne huld non so queynte man as he huld þe schrewe. c1422 T. Hoccleve Learn to Die 83 And thee the bettre for to thewe, The misterie of my lore y shal the shewe. 1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. iv. xxvii. 53 Although some Fathers were no better Cosmographers then to think this; yet for the most part they were better thewed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > see also also refers to : theowthewn.adj. also refers to : † theowthewv. < n.¹c888n.²c1273v.c1175 see also
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