| 单词 | bright-burning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbright-burning With participles, forming adjectives with the sense ‘that is brightly ——’, as in bright-burning, bright-lit, bright-shining, etc. Now chiefly literary and poetic. [Compare Old English beorhtblōwende bright-blooming, in which the first element is beorht bright adj.] ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > bright shininga900 lighteOE lightlyOE sheenOE torhtOE shirea1000 steepa1000 shimmeringc1000 brightOE strongOE clear1297 fair?a1300 bright-shininga1387 merrya1393 skirea1400 lucident14.. shimc1400 staringc1400 luculentc1420 splendent1474 illuminousc1485 lucentc1500 bloominga1522 sheer1565 prelucent1568 faculent1575 splendant1578 lucid1591 neat1591 shine1596 translucent1596 well-lighted1606 nitid1615 lucible1623 dilucid1653 translucid1657 hard1660 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [adjective] > of the nature of or resembling flame > flaming or blazing lighteOE burningc1000 blazingc1400 flamingc1400 flagranta1513 flammigerous1592 bright-burning1594 flameful1605 flamant1607 aflame1698 lowing1720 lunting1786 blazy1838 the world > matter > light > illumination > [adjective] > illuminated or lit up > well lightOE light?a1200 well-lighted1596 well-lit1798 bright-lit1921 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 33 For in þe welcon was i-seie stella comata, þat is, a sterre wiþ a briȝt shynynge crest, þat bodeþ alwey pestilence. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 69 What foole hath..brought a faggot to bright burning Troy? View more context for this quotation 1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 88 in Purple Island Thy love, thy light, thy faces Bright-shining graces,..How farre surmount they lifes winter day! 1795 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 788 Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume. 1921 Sat. Evening Post 5 Nov. 54/1 The wooden-faced maid let him in and took him to a bright-lit room down the hall. 2005 R. W. Bulliet Hunters, Herders, & Hamburgers vi. 109 The Vedic peoples of India..commonly offered the gods bright-burning clarified butter (ghee) in the sacrificial rituals. < as lemmas |
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