单词 | wheresomever |
释义 | wheresomeveradv.conj. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. = wherever adv. and conj. 2a, 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [adverb] > anywhere > wherever whithersoc950 whereso1154 wheresomec1175 wheresoc1340 whereverc1384 wheresoevera1400 wheresomevera1400 wheresoever1561 whithersoever1583 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8931 Bot quar-sum-euer þis tre lai, Godd sceud þar-on his mightes ai. 1452 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 131/1 All and sindri my landis..within the realme of Scotland quharesumever. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xvi. 62 Hys grete wynges..that bare hym..hyghe and lowe, where som~euere he wolde be. c1500 Melusine (1895) xxxvi. 275 And take there your lodgys tofore them wheresomeuer it playse you. ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) ii. i. 179 Wheresomeuer we be in this worlde, we be as pylgryms and straungers. 1620 Abp. J. Williams Serm. Apparell 30 The soules house is there, wheresomeuer it worketh. 2. = wherever adv. and conj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [adverb] > to or towards some thing or place > to or towards any place whithersoc950 owhitherOE whithersoeverc1230 wheresoc1290 wheresoeverc1320 wherevera1400 wheresomever1470 anywhither1517 wheretosoever1609 wheretoever1635 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. vi. 221 Where someuer ye goo I wylle folowe you. 1501 in Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) I. 136 Wheresomever it shuld please the king to sende theym. a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) i. sig. B3 Arragon, Who..Doth play the diuell where some ere he comes. 3. = wherever adv. and conj. 4. ΚΠ 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 21 Whersomeuer one dye, the weye to the other worlde is alle like. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxiv. 533 Mawgys habandouned never reynawd whersomever he went. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. iii. 7 Would I were with him, wheresomere hee is. View more context for this quotation 1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods iii. 43 He haunts about our woods..and kills 'em [sc. Indians] wheresomever he catches 'em. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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