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单词 wending
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wendingn.

Brit. /ˈwɛndɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwɛndɪŋ/
Forms: see wend v.1 and -ing suffix1.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian wendinge (only in compounds: jērwendinge anniversary of death, witherwendinge restitution; West Frisian winding revolution, change of direction, turning on the opposite tack), Middle Dutch wendinge turning (Dutch wending turning, turn, reversal, twist, manner), Middle High German wendunge aversion of harm (German Wendung turn, change, twist, turn of phrase), Old Swedish vänding , Old Danish (Danish) vending turning, change, instant, battle < the Germanic base of wend v.1 + the Germanic base of -ing suffix1. Compare Icelandic vending turn, turning.
1.
a. The action of turning; a twist, a turn; (concrete) a place where a path changes direction. Also: the action of changing, a change. Obsolete.In quot. OE: a turning round, a revolution.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > [noun]
wendingeOE
changing?c1225
stirringa1240
wrixlinga1240
changec1325
variancec1340
transmutationc1380
varyingc1380
whileness1382
translationc1384
alterationa1398
mutationa1398
removinga1425
revolutiona1425
shiftingc1440
changementc1450
muance1480
commutation1509
altry1527
transition1545
turning1548
novation1549
immutation?c1550
alterance1559
alienation1562
turn?1567
vicissitude1603
refraction1614
fermentationa1661
diabasis1672
parallax1677
motion1678
aliation1775
transience1946
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xlii. 306 Hit [sc. monna mod] gedeð hit self him selfum suiðe ungelic for ðære gelomlican wendinge.
OE Ælfric Hexameron (Hatton 115) 45 On anre wendinge þa hwile ðe he [sc. the firmament] æne betyrnð gað witodlice forð feower and twentig tida.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 23 (MED) Ðies wændinge is iwis ðurh godes swiðere hand.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 313 (MED) Laborintus is an hous..wiþ tornynges and wendynges and wonderful weyes.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. vi. 656 Tygris..passeth into þe Rede See aftir many turnynges and wendynges.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ii. l. 12 But at the weendyng [L. ubi ad versuram venerint] slake T[h]e [MS Te] yook, thyn oxon nekkis forto cole.
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) (1988) 116 (MED) Þere were in þat place so many wondirful tornynges And wendingges and þerfore it was yclepid Laberinthus.
1851 J. Kennedy Nat. Hist. Man. I. i. i. 60 Girls dance nimbly, and in fantastic wendings and bendings of the body.
b. Nautical. The action or an act of turning, esp. on the opposite tack. Cf. wend v.1 7. Now rare.
ΚΠ
?c1588 tr. in J. Bruce Rep. Arrangem. Internal Def. these Kingdoms (1798) App li. p. ccxlvi Before I wende, I will shoote off a peace, and in wending, will shewe another lighte, on the poope.
a1592 T. Cavendish in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) IV. vi. 1195 We were almost aground in wending.
1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services iv. 117 Thorow the wending of the Ship (that is, the turning about of the Ship, being at an Anchor) these Cables have gotten some windings one about another.
1706 R. Park Art of Sea-fighting xvii. 220 Riding at the Upper End of Woolwich in a Spring Tide, upon the Flood in wending our Ship touch'd the Ground, and lay thwart.
1755 W. Emerson Navigation Table of Terms 161 Wending, turning about, when lying at anchor.
1891 Caian Michaelmas Term 113 I ordered the mizzen to be set, and after four attempts we succeeded in wending.
1935 Mariner's Mirror 21 331/2 Amongst the older yachtsmen..the term wending is regularly used when turning to windward.
2. Now somewhat literary.
a. The action or an act of going, proceeding, or wandering; (in early use) esp. †a going away, a departure (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun]
departing?c1225
partingc1300
withdrawingc1315
departc1330
wendingc1330
outpassinga1387
goinga1400
discessc1425
departisona1450
departmentc1450
going awayc1450
departition1470
departurec1515
recess1531
avoidance1563
parture1567
waygate1575
departance1579
exit1596
remotion1608
voiding1612
recession1630
recedence1641
recede1649
partment1663
recedure1712
leaving1719
off-going1727
quittance1757
departal1823
pull-out1825
pull-awaya1829
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [noun]
departing?c1225
partingc1300
departc1330
wendingc1330
going-outc1350
goinga1400
discessc1425
departisona1450
departmentc1450
departition1470
departurec1515
recess1531
avoidance1563
parture1567
waygate1575
departance1579
remotion1608
voiding1612
recede1649
partment1663
leaving1719
off-going1727
quittance1757
departal1823
waying1922
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 1218 He goþ him to his fader þo, Þat for his wending was ful wo.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 919 Nis in þis werlde non so siker þing [sc. deþ], Þe tyme neiȝeþ of her wendyng.
a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) l. 3268 Þere he ordeyniþ his wendyng Toward Darie þe kyng.
a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 9967 She went ageyn with hir meigne; The third day aftir hir wending, [Generides] ther was crovned king.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) civ. §36. 371 Egipt was fayn in thaire wendynge [L. in profectione eorum].
1589 T. Lodge Scillaes Metamorphosis sig. F Rockes for ruth, and birds for sorow plaine my wofull wending.
1858 Amer. Educ. Year-bk. Feb. 60 The Voice will be..a representative of the progress of the West in all that tends to advance the general march of civilization with that of empire in its westward wendings.
1876 Comic Jrnl. 27 Sept. 243/1 Let us allow him to get his wending over, or there won't be room for the remainder of the story.
1901 Brick Jan. 75/1 A call from the president was the signal for the wending of the clayworkers to the convention hall.
1914 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. July 118 He paused an instant in his wending.
2001 S. Heaney Electric Light 5 O pastel turrets, pods and tapering stalks That stood their ground for all our summer wending.
b. The (meandering) progress of a river or road. Also in plural in same sense.
ΚΠ
1826 C. J. Perry Misc. Poems in House of Mornington 78 Beneath its slope, in silent wendings glide, The narrow stream, on which the vessel rides.
1869 M. Leathes Soimême vii. 97 I could see the Welsh mountains, and the wendings of the Severn among emerald meadows.
1915 Amer. Sheep Breeder Dec. 542/2 He looked afar off, rested his eyes for a moment on the old church cross and then followed the wending of the valley road.
2011 M. Bragg Son of War 98 They hurtled towards the Wiza river, frozen for days in its serpentine wendings.
3. A journey. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun]
forec900
wayOE
farec1000
sitheOE
gangOE
journey?c1225
gatea1300
pilgrimagec1300
voyage1338
wending1340
raik?c1350
turna1400
repairc1425
went1430
reisea1450
progressionc1450
progressa1460
race1513
peregrination1548
travel1559
passance1580
dogtrot1856
trek1895
ulendo1921
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 71 Þis lyf ne is bote a wendynge, wel ssort, and þis wordle ne is bote wendynge.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 273 (MED) He halp duke William in many þinges in his wendinge to Engelond.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 207 Jon dred þat wendyng, to France wild he nouht.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. viii. 78 God graunt you good weyndyng, And euermore with you be.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wendingadj.

Brit. /ˈwɛndɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwɛndɪŋ/
Forms: see wend v.1 and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wend v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < wend v.1 + -ing suffix2.
Now somewhat literary.
That wends (in various senses); esp. going, proceeding; wandering, meandering.backward-wending: see the first element.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [adjective]
wendingOE
travelling1340
cursory1606
peregrinating1611
passantc1710
journeying1739
trekking1850
OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) xxiv. 189 Precordia fatui quasi rota curri et quasi axis uersatilis sic cogitatus stulti : forebreostu þæs stuntan swylce hweowul crætes & swylce ex wendende swa geþanc þæs dysigan.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxiii. 1066 Of thus ysette afuyre comeþ wel smellynge smoke schape as a ȝerde, and smale byneþe and swithe meuable and wendynge.
1715 L. Theobald tr. Sophocles Oedipus v. ii. 66 O triple-wending Road, ye gloomy Woods! Ye Shrubs, ye fatal and contracted Paths.
1833 Ladies' Penny Gaz. 16 Feb. 134/2 Then haste thee on, my wending bark, Through bending billows breaking.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxi. 253 She drove across the hill-top in the wending ways which led downwards.
1916 A. S. Hobart Transplanted Truths ix. 118 The wending processions of men to the place of prayer.
1945 Jrnl. Walters Art Gallery 1944–5 68/2 The costumes of the wending troupe.
2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 77 The wending tracks on the Yorkshire moors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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