| 单词 | to endue her gorge, her meat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto endue her gorge, her meat a. Of a hawk: In early use, apparently = ‘to put over’, i.e. to pass (the food contained in the ‘gorge’) into the stomach; in later use, to digest. (In 15th cent. only absol.; from 16th cent. also, to endue her gorge, her meat.) Hence transferred of other animals or of persons: To digest. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > digest [verb (transitive)] seetheOE defy1362 fyc1390 brookc1400 convertc1400 enduec1430 sleep1481 digest1483 concoct1533 decoct1541 diger?1541 confect1578 coque1615 concorporate1656 coct1662 swage1768 stomach1822 digerate- α. β. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 327 Shee will haue indewed it out of hande.1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. iii. 85 If the stomacke..do not digest and indue well.1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. xx. 114 Small birds..are meetest for that purpose, and easiest to be indued.c1430 Bk. Hawkyng in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 296 And ye shall say this hawke is ful y-gorged, and hath endewedd, or i~put over. 1486 Bk. St. Albans A vij a An hawke enduth neuer as long as hir bowellis bene full at her fedyng. a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. A.viv Your gorge not endewed Without a capon stewed. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 643/1 I mute, as a hauke dothe whan she hath endued her gorge. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 161v Geue them [sc. fowls] no newe, tyll you perceaue..that the olde be endewed. 1614 S. Latham Falconry Explan. Wordes sig. ¶v Endew, is when a Hawke digesteth her meat, not onely putting it ouer from her gorge, but also cleansing her pannell. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VIII. 303 Meat, such as they are able to digest and endue. 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais v. ii They eat and drank like men..endued or digested like men. 1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. < as lemmas |
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