请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 vaward
释义

vawardn.

Forms: α. Middle English– vaward (1500s va-ward), Middle English–1500s vawarde. β. Middle English Scottish waward(e, Middle English–1500s wayward, waywarde, Middle English–1500s wawart. γ. Middle English vauwarde, fauward, 1500s–1600s vauward; Middle English–1500s vawe-, 1500s vawwarde, 1500s, 1700s vawward. δ. Middle English wowarde, Middle English–1500s vowarde, 1500s–1600s voward.
Etymology: Reduced form of vaumward vamward n. See vant- comb. form.
Obsolete exc. archaic.
1.
a. Military. = vanguard n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > van or front
forerunnerseOE
vantward1297
formerward13..
forme-ward13..
vamward1338
fronta1375
pointa1382
frontier?a1400
vawarda1400
forayc1425
avantwardc1440
avant-garde1470
vanward1476
vantguard1485
vanguard1487
foreward1490
forefront1513
foremen1577
forefight?1611
vaunta1616
van1633
first line1663
front line1677
firing line1859
α.
a1400–50 Alexander 3617 Þe men out of Medy he mas..To enverom alle þe vaward of all þe vile yndes.
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 3554 Abel, his son bold and hard, Bare the baner in the vaward.
c1471 Arriv. K. Edw. IV (Camden) 29 His vawarde so sore oppressyd them, with shott of arrows, that they gave them right-a-sharpe shwre.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 48 Thai saw in battale cum Arayit The vaward with baner displayit.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xlviii Beside this, he appoincted a vawarde, of the which he made capitayne Edward duke of Yorke.
1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 132 To give their attendance at the lodging of their Chiefes of the Armie, whether it be of the Battaile, or Vawarde.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 178 The English were the first that entered with great vigour upon the front and vaward.
1640 W. Habington Hist. Edward IV 81 The Vaward commanded by the Duke of Glocester, the Rere by the Lord Hastings.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Vaward, an obsolete Word for Van-Guard.]
1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) I. 116 He intrusted the command of the vaward, or centre, to the Earl of Moray.
1846 H. W. Torrens Remarks Uses Mil. Hist. 148 The disposition of troops seems..to have been a vaward, or advance, a centre, and rear.
β. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. xix. 2261 He askyt at þe kynge Til haf þe wawarde [v.r. wawart] of his batale.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 340 And thai haf tald thair reboyting, Thai of the waward. ?a1513 [see sense 1b]. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) ciiii. sig. E*iiii The baner of britaine sholde be in the way ward.a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) cv. sig. E*v The king of orqueney,..was put to the wayward with xxx. M. hawberts.γ. c1400 Sege Jerus. 430 Þe fauward Titus toke,..With six þousand soudiours.c1440 Bone Florence 604 The vawewarde and the myddyll soone, And the rere-warde owte of Rome The grete oost removyd and yode.?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Div Hauynge the rule of the Frenche kynges vawewarde.1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 127/2 Sebastian..was Lieue tenant general of the Vawward of Diocletian the emperour.1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 39 The vauward of his armie was conducted by Iohn and Andronicus.1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. viii. 119 Then, Diomede, unaided as he was, Rush'd ardent to the vaw-ward.γ. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes ix. xxviii In his passage to gouerne the wowarde.?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 241 In the vowarde of whom were foote men with bawes.a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxix Whiche..is more fered of the feendes than ony vowarde of a batayle.1543 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) IX. 393 The other galees of thEmperour appoynted for the vowarde.1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1593*/1 Forthwith the Lorde Lieutenant sent to the vowarde, commaunding that they shoulde marche towarde the towne.1631 G. Chapman Warres of Pompey & Caesar in Plays (1873) III. 162 The voward of the foe Is ranged already.
b. In figurative context.
ΚΠ
1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 57 It ar ȝe that stonden bifore, in Anticristis vauwarde.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 230 Than to battell thai war arreyit all And ay the wawart kepit Thocht.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (1634) i. 10 And therefore he doubteth not to set their mouthes in the vaward, as being strongly armed to subdue their madnesse.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. viii. sig. F3 Her hayre being layed at the full length downe her backe, bare shewe as if the voward fayled, yet that would conquere.
c. figurative. The forefront; the early part.In later use only as an echo of Shakespeare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning
beginning1297
primec1300
firstc1330
primity1546
prime tide1549
springtime1579
morning1595
vaward1599
noviceship1610
fore-enda1616
vernalitya1639
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 22 The vaward or subburbes of my narration.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 177 We that are in the vaward of our youth. View more context for this quotation
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 2 Apr. (1941) 39 She is not in the vaward of youth.
1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate vi Those who write themselves in the vaward of youth.
1884 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 208 He..states that he and his accomplices..are in the vaward of their youth.
2. attributive. (Cf. vanward adj.)
ΚΠ
1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xxv. 352 Myself will rule this central host,..My sons command the vaward post.
1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xxxiv. 367 Where's now their victor vaward wing?
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xii. 236 To centre of the vaward line Fitz-Louis guided Amadine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
n.a1400
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/11 5:00:45