单词 | wishing |
释义 | wishingn. a. The action of wish v.; desire; sometimes spec. †(a) evil desire, concupiscence; (b) imprecation. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [noun] wishingc1200 optationa1398 apprecation1606 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 179 Ne wrec þu þe mid wussinge ne mid warienge. c1220 Bestiary 334 Golsipe and ȝiscing, ȝiuernesse and wissing. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 319 He set the herte in jeupartie With wihssinge and with fantasie. c1500 Melusine (1895) 177 Our desyre and wysshyng is brought to effect. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. lxxviii. [lxxiv.] 90 b/1 Theyr horses serued them at theyr wysshyng. 1590 J. Stockwood Eng. Accidence 3 Some aduerbe of wishing, as vtinam. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 323 I cannot be a man with wishing, therfore I will die a woman with grieuing. View more context for this quotation 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 7 Wishing, of all Employments is the worst. 1842 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. VI. xii. 154 Wishing will not serve instead of coming. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 264 The power of obtaining anything by wishing. b. An instance of this, a wish; formerly sometimes passing into the sense ‘a request, petition’: cf. wish n.1 2, wish v. 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > desire or wish willOE yering13.. wishing1377 desirea1400 wish1513 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [noun] > a wish wishing1377 wish1390 option1593 would1753 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 90 In wedes and in wisshynges and with ydel thouȝtes. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 6231 My desyr & my wysshynges Resten fully in thys thynges. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. to Edw. VI, sig. aij Our daily wysshinges and praiers. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. J.iv A wishing for that he thought he had not. 1648 R. Fanshawe tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido ii. iv. 64 They..Who not with wishings onely seek her favour. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 222 Such were these earnest Wishings. 1877 G. Meredith Gen. Ople viii Our young barbarians..interest us in their wishings, their weepings, and..their kissings. Compounds attributive and in other combinations in many designations of objects supposed to be capable of magically conferring the fulfilment of one's wishes. wishing-bone n. = wishbone n. ΚΠ 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Wishing-Bone. wishing-cap n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > magical object > for making wish > wishing-cap wishing-cap1600 wishing-hat1600 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > other toque1505 biggin1511 button cap1527 undercap1531 biggin1558 fool's cap1577 apex1578 blue capa1586 wishing-cap1600 Wantage cap1609 infernal1610 porringer1623 montera1626 montera cap1652 school cap1736 wing cap1775 balloon1784 balloon-cap1785 spider-cap1790 poke-fly cap1810 strap-cap1820 mandarin cap1835 porringer-cap1839 chechia1853 turban1862 mitre1877 turban-cap1881 half-cap1893 pillbox cap1897 Queen Mary hat1928 snap-back1937 songkok1960 pakul1982 1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. E4v Hauing this mint [sc. the purse] about me, I shall want no wishing Cap. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 436 The fools Wishing Cap, and the Philosophers Stone are but trifles. 1825 W. Scott Jrnl. 27 Dec. (1939) 58 I have worn a wishing-cap the power of which has been to divert present griefs. wishing-gate n. ΚΠ 1828 W. Wordsworth Wishing-gate 18 The rustic Wishing-gate. wishing-hat n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > other cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475 hat1483 wishing-hat1600 cockle hat1603 porringer1623 poke1632 custard-cap1649 bonnet1675 muff-box1678 Caroline1687 Quaker1778 meat safe1782 balloon hat1784 gypsy hat1785 cabriolet1797 gypsy bonnet1803 Gypsy1806 Wellington hat1809 fan-tail-hat1810 umbrella hat1817 radical1828 caubeen1831 topi1835 montera1838 Petersham1845 squash hat1860 Moab1864 kiddy1865 flap-hat1866 Dolly Varden1872 brush-hata1877 potae1881 Pope's-hat1886 plateau1890 kelly1915 push-back1920 kiss-me-quick hat1963 pakul1982 tinfoil hat1982 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > magical object > for making wish > wishing-cap wishing-cap1600 wishing-hat1600 1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. H1 Ile steale his wishing Hat. wishing-purse n. ΚΠ 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. vi. i. 396 The wishing purse in his hand. wishing-rod n. ΚΠ 1850 Lettsom Fall Nibelungers mclx. 197 The wishing-rod of gold. wishing-stone n. ΚΠ 1859 G. W. Dasent tr. P.C. Asbjørnsen & J. Moe Pop. Tales from Norse (ed. 2) p. xcii Thus, we have oska-steinn, wishing-stone, i.e. a stone which plays the part of a divining rod. 1908 Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 1/3 A wishing-stone. wishing-tree n. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Gg4v That she might haue the first possession of the wishing tree. wishing-well n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > magical object > for making wish > wishing-well wishing-well1791 1791 J. Moore Monastic Remains 2 The wishing wells still remain. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 235 One of these now unsuspected..wishing-wells or hâlikelds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wishingadj. That wishes, longing, desirous; expressing a wish. †wishing and woulding (quot. 1620): cf. wishing n. c. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [adjective] willinga1425 wishing1530 wishful1733 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 329/2 Wysshynge, optatif. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 121 In wishing manner, he would his end should be lamented to his prayse. 1620 Bp. J. King Serm. 24 Mar. 3 It is not a wishing and woulding mercy, but a preuailing, speeding, releeuing mercy. 1662 J. Howell New Eng. Gram. 62 The Optatif or wishing Mood. 1703 N. Rowe Ulysses i. i The wishing Warmth of Youth. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. iv Return'd to cheer his wishing tenant's sight. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III v, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 242/2 Now Peter..Would..baulk Some wishing guest of knife or fork. Derivatives ˈwishingly adv. desirously, longingly; in quot. 1571, optatively. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [adverb] wishingly1571 wishfully1598 optatively1626 wishlya1825 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxii. 2) i. f. 269v Some reade it wishingly; Othersome reteine the future tence, so as it should bee a prophesie. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Desirously, wishingly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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