| 单词 | to fall in a sound |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fall in a sound a. A swoon or fainting-fit. Usually with prepositions in or into. Very common c1530–1650, esp. in to fall in a sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning > a faint or swoon swimeOE swooningc1290 swowa1325 swooningc1330 swoon1390 soundc1400 trancec1405 sweamc1415 swoundc1440 sweltingc1460 swarf1488 dwalm?a1513 sounding ecstasy?1565 sounding1580 pasme1591 death1596 lipothymy1603 deliquium1620 delique1645 fainting fit1714 drow1727 faint-fit1795 faint1808 blacking out1930 blackout1934 greyout1942 pass-out1946 α. figurative.1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 178 For they beheld him, rather in a Sown, then as yet Dead in the Kings favour.β. 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy v. vi, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 149 The Woman..Which oftyn for fayntnes wyll fall in a sound.1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxvi. 187 Prostrate we fell..And sodaynly we were cast in a sounde.1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Buckingham sig. V.iii From a sigh he falles into a sounde, And from a sounde lyeth ragyng on the grounde.1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 77 A man in a foming sounde, is not fit for our Table.a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) xlvii. 151 All his men were affraid, and one of them fell into a sownd.1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 247 And so [they] came out of the Convulsive-like Motions, lying as it had been in a Sound.1767 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (new ed.) I. xi. 103 My Lady fell into a sound [1766 (ed. 1) swoon]; but Sir Tomkyn drawing his sword, swore he was her's to the last drop of his blood.figurative.a1569 A. Kingsmill Viewe Mans Estate (1574) ix. sig. C vij Lying still in the sounde of sinne and buried vp in death.1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 413 When England..bereft..of vitall breath was readie through civill warre to sinke downe and fall in a sound.c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 10254 By-fore his feet fel sche doun For sorwe & care In a ded sowne. c1500 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 139 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 225 So for dreade thys lady laye in a sowne. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxcii. [clxxxviii.] 590 She fell in a sowne, and knightes and ladyes came and comforted her. 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. E Alas honest man helpe me, I am not well, and with that [he] suncke downe suddenly in a sowne. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. iii. 195 Augusta Livia..fell down dead in a sown. 1678 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 424 She fell in a soune and there layd. < as lemmas |
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