单词 | ungive |
释义 | ungivev. 1. intransitive. To give way, to relax; to lose tenacity or firmness. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > become less dense [verb (intransitive)] > become loose in texture ungive?1523 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xv Make it in gretter hey cockes and to stande so one nyght or more, that it may ongyue and swete. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 72 That Religion which is rather suddenly parched up, then seasonably ripened, doth commonly ungive afterwards. 1670 J. Evelyn in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1063 When the wheels will not turn round because of the clay and over-much moisture, it is a signe, that 'tis not fit for cultivation, until it ungive, and be dry. c1700 in Bell's Anc. Poems (1857) 19 Who thinks that love doth live In beauty's tempting show, Shall find his hopes ungive, And melt in reason's thaw. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 369 Gingerbread losing its crispness, and salt or any other substance relaxing from the humidity of the atmosphere, are said to ungive. 1881– in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. (Lancs., Chesh., Leics., Bedford, Hants). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > specific something abstract forgivec1175 repealc1390 remit1394 disgorgea1523 to lay down1611 degorge1622 ungive1645 to give over1674 1645 J. Lightfoot Comm. Acts vi. 104 It is a daring that deserves castigation in him,..that hee should..deny the puritie of the Greeke text, before hee will ungive any thing of his owne groundlesse opinion. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. vii. 118 in Church-hist. Brit. He was over-frozen in his Northern Rigour, and could not be thaw'd, to ungive any thing of the rigidnesse of his Discipline. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.?1523 |
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