单词 | to deathward |
释义 | > as lemmasto (one's) deathward The direction leading towards death. Only in †to (one's) deathward, to the deathward: towards death, to one's death. Cf. lifeward n. archaic and rare in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [adverb] > towards death hencea1225 to (one's) deathwarda1398 hynea1400 at death's door1515 home1561 deathward1646 deathwards1727 dustward1847 α. β. c1400 Life St. Anne (Minn.) (1928) l. 3043 (MED) Iosep drawes to dedward fast.a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 807 When he drawes to ded-ward.?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 96 (MED) When þaire frendez drawez to þe deed ward.c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 31 Sekenes tuke hym, & he drew vnto his dedeward.a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxxv. 237 Whanne þe longe is igreued be eny occasioun it spediþ to deþward [MS deþwar]. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. l. 3462 Kynde [= Nature] to his dethward..doth hym dispose. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 7832 (MED) Ellis to the dethward he scholde hye. 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) i. xxiii. sig. cijv Thou arte more nere thy deth than I am for thow gost to the deth ward. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 202 I sawe him go to deþeward. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xl. sig. Hii Ye shall not go to your dethward. 1628 J. Hume Iewes Deliv. out of Babylon vi. 91 There is a sorrow to God-ward, and a sorrow to death-ward. 1871 A. C. Swinburne Tristram & Iseult in J. H. Friswell Pleasure 46 Love led love..Through chance by chance to deathward. a1974 G. Heyer My Lord John (1975) iv. i. 308 Northumberland had been dead for two years now, but he had had no hand in sending him to the deathward. < as lemmas |
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