| 单词 | to wane less, too little |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wane less, too little a. To decrease in size or extent; to dwindle. Now rare. †Also with pleonastic complement, to wane less, too little. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] narrowOE waneOE smallOE slakec1380 welk1390 fade1398 lessenc1400 minish?a1425 decay1489 adminisha1500 diminish1520 to grow downwards?1523 ungrow1598 scant1607 settlea1642 to run off1765 dwarf1776 comminute1850 downsize1977 OE Beowulf 1607 Þa þæt sweord ongan æfter heaþoswate hildegicelum, wigbil wanian. c1290 St. Brendan 342 in S. Eng. Leg. 229 Ich wondri houȝ þis taperes bernez þus: and ne waniez nouȝt. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 4772 Þis was a wondir~full werk..þat þai [two trees] suld wax soo & wane within a wale time. 14.. 26 Pol. Poems xix. 44 Þy vices waxen moo, And þy vertues wanen lesse. 1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 58v The tree forthwith wayneth and wythereth. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times iii. x. 141 [A disease] Wherein the Head waxeth too great, whil'st the Legges, and lower parts waine too Little. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 298 Fruits and animals wax and wane. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 444 That which grows is said to wax, and that which decays to wane. 1896 Black Horse Gaz. Jan. 8/2 When the width of an Empire may wax and enlarge Or shrivel and wane with the fate of a charge. < as lemmas |
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