wreathingn.

Brit.

/ˈriːðɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈriðɪŋ/

Forms: see wreathe v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wreathe v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < wreathe v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action or an act of interweaving or intertwining; (later) esp. the action of making wreaths. Also: the fact of being interwoven or intertwined.

ΘΠ

the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [noun]

interlacing1532

twisting1552

wrapping1553

wreathing1553

interweaving1578

interlacement1603

contexture1649

intertexture1649

entwinementa1670

pleach1670

entwining1674

implexion1678

intertwisting1753

intertwine1817

intertwining1832

interramificationa1839

intertwinement1840

inweavement1842

interweavement1843

intertwist1870

twists and turns1884

interlace1904

1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. vi. f. 105 By reason that the wreathing & wrappinge togither of the bowes kept them of from the bodies of the tres.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa6 Bowes and braunches..did..dilate Their clasping armes, in wanton wreathings intricate.

1661 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) ii. ii. 32 In strings there is required either wreathing or some..texture of component parts.

1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 131 Let them touch each other's hands, in a fresh wreathing Of their tender human youth!

1879 Specif. & Drawings of Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 20 May 579/1 The material used for making wreaths may be twigs of ordinary evergreens... ‘Ground-pine’..is well adapted for the purpose of wreathing.

1892 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 384 The poorer inhabitants of the Chase helped to support life by various small industries.., such as the wreathing of hurdles.

1989 E. Samuels Henry Adams xvi. 246 The simple elements of Polynesian life, the wreathing of garlands, dancing, and warfare.

1998 Associated Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 9 Sept. He describes wreathing, the traditional gathering of balsam fir tips made into Christmas wreaths shipped throughout the world.

†a. figurative. The action or an act of twisting the meaning of something. Cf. wreathe v. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > instance of

violence1546

wresting1551

wreathing1556

strain1579

wrest1581

mis-sense1615

by-signification1651

extortion1652

corruption1699

wrench1701

by-sense1782

corruptibility1847

torturing1855

twist1862

1556 L. Pollard Fyve Homilies sig. G.ii They vse the scripture with no lesse vnreuerent talke, gestyng, yea with wreathyng of it accordyng vnto theyr fonde braynes and phansies then they wolde or myght do a tale of Robyn hood.

1628 W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens 67 Which is a grosse abuse, a wreathing, a peruerting of the Scriptures.

b. The action or an act of twisting or contorting something, esp. the body; writhing. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun]

throwingOE

wringinga1375

twining1398

wrenching1398

wresting1398

writhing?a1400

wrying1566

wreathing1571

convolution1597

twinding1602

contortion1611

distorquement1628

distortion1718

twisting1725

quirling1754

circumgyration1843

1571 Dict. French & Eng. Torsement, a wreathing.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiii. 223 Leauing their mouings free; which yet..shall come to the end which God hath listed to appoint vnto them, whatsoeuer windings and wreathings they seeme to themselues to make.

1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iv. vi. 348 His friend did notable iniurie to their amitie in searching out wreathings and ambages in the discouery of his most hidden thoughts to him.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 34 By the wreathing of their bodies..they seek to avoid the pursuer.

1641 T. Fannant True Relation Parl. Richard II 37 Those infinit wreathings of contention.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. v. 8 Touching the Contorsion or Wreathing of the recurrent Nerve.

1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 130 The Earth-Worm..by a sort of wreathing..takes hold of the Ground with its small Feet.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 456 The sun,..whose oblique course is not unaptly represented by the wreathings of a snake.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 451 The attendants told me, from the wreathing of her body.., that she would soon have another fit.

1984 E. Bryan Against All Odds xvi. 285 His imaginative tongue stormed her senses and provoked a spontaneous wreathing of her slim body.

c. An instance of smoke, vapour, etc., moving with a twisting or coiling motion; a wreath of smoke, vapour, etc.

ΘΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > of smoke, mist, or cloud

wralling1398

wreath1633

spire1699

wreathing1818

folding1853

1818 Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. Feb. 286/1 The swarthy wreathing of the flame.

1823 J. Baillie in Coll. of Poems 260 [Steam] With tressy wreathings playing in the air.

1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche viii. xxiii. 101 Mid the wreathings of the vapour dim The goddess grew in glory visible.

1921 Table Talk (Melbourne) 15 Dec. She paralleled with the movements of her body the wreathings of the smoke from the censer that stood on either side of her.

1995 Independent (Nexis) 13 May 25 There was just a blur of jeans and T-shirts and muscle and a great wreathing of cigarette smoke, through which I felt as though I was wading.

3. concrete. Something which has been twisted into a circular shape; something composed of intertwined or interwoven elements; esp. a wreath, a garland.

ΘΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > garland or wreath

flower-garland1303

garland1303

aneusc1500

whip1513

crants1592

anadem1598

wreathing1600

festoon1610

swag1795

lei1843

wreathage1872

garlandage1885

the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > condition of being twisted spirally > spirally twisted object

wreathOE

writhec1400

wreathing1600

twist1604

writh1650

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xiii. 449 And for these grafts it is ynough, if euerie one of them, haue one good eielet or two aboue the wreathing.

1887 Gardeners' Monthly & Horticulturist May 156/2 The wreathing is made of Holly.

1907 W. Raymond Bk. Crafts & Char. vi. 48 Amongst the remains of the lake village on the moors near Glastonbury, wreathing has been found that does not materially differ from the hurdle of to-day.

1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 July a10 The five tall panels are done in the grisaille style and are embellished with delicate wreathings of foliage and narrow bands of pale color.

2019 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 5 Sept. 28 Princess Mary was also in grey, and wore a smart grey hat of silk, with a narrow wreathing of ostrich feathers.

4. The action of adorning a person or thing with a wreath; the action of laying a wreath on a tomb or monument. Also as a modifier, esp. in wreathing ceremony. Cf. wreath-laying n. at wreath n. Compounds 2.

ΘΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > garland or wreath > action of wreathing

embowerment1846

wreathing1852

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > award for merit > wreath or fillet > investing with

crowninga1250

laureation1778

wreathing1852

1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece IX. ii. lxx. 137 The operations of wreathing and unwreathing must here have been performed by the soldiers symbolically.

1899 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 3 338 The two things that struck him as most important about the myth of Athamas were the wreathing of the hero for sacrifice and his madness.

1969 R. Gilman Confusion of Realms (1970) 193 Solness climbs up the tower for the traditional wreathing ceremony.

1987 Green & Grey (Loyola College, Maryland) 14 Dec. 5/6 The New York Public Library has its annual ‘wreathing of the Lions’.

2014 Free Lance-St (Fredericksburg, Va.) (Nexis) 8 Nov. Wreathing and ceremony: 9 a.m., American Legion Post 290.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

wreathingadj.

Brit.

/ˈriːðɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈriðɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wreathe v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < wreathe v. + -ing suffix².Earlier currency is perhaps shown by the following example, in which wrethyng teames denotes part of the gear of a plough (compare team n. 5a):?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iii^v He must haue his plough and his..horses, and the geyr that longeth to them..yokes, landes, stylkinges, wrethyng teames [1598 rev. ed. wrethen teames].However, the meaning (and part of speech) of wrethyng is uncertain; the editor of the revised edition of 1598 appears to have regarded the word as an error for wrethen wreathen adj.

That wreathes (in various senses of wreathe v.); esp. twisting, coiling, encircling.

ΘΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective]

rollingc1400

whorling1578

wreathing1584

twininga1593

wreathy1644

volvulous1657

coiling1718

vining1806

swirling1807

convolutionary1903

1584 T. Stocker tr. P. Viret Cauteles, Canon & Ceremonies Popish Masse 101 The writhing and wreathing countenances that are to be vsed in this other Antique.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 717 The splents of the spire are smooth and not deep, being for the most part like vnto the wreathing turnings of Snailes.

1677 J. Dryden State Innocence iii. i. 16 When your kind Eyes look'd languishing on mine, And wreathing Arms did soft embraces joyn.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 18 Unbidden Earth shall wreathing Ivy bring.

1719 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia v. 180 To cast from off her Brow the wreathing Green.

1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth vi. 13 In red and wreathing columns flash'd The flame.

1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. vi. 179 The wreathing water in the rapids hurrying on to take its fearful plunge.

1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 327 The wreathing mists and wandering clouds of such a day.

1977 M. Hardwick Charlie is my Darling (U.S. ed.) vi. 77 A huge, rambling house built round an inn-yard pretty with pot-flowers and wreathing vines.

2015 Time Out (Nexis) 31 Mar. 20 A basement bar is a place to hunker down, hide out and lose yourself in the wreathing coils of ‘smoke’ rising off your fancy liquid-nitrogen cocktail.

Derivatives

ˈwreathingly adv. now rare in a twisting or coiling manner; so as to surround or encircle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adverb]

verticularly1657

twiningly1731

voluminously1745

wreathingly1821

1821 S. Bullen Mary de Rochford iii. 102 The light which at intervals shone, And wreathingly played on the pillars of stone.

1835 J. C. Mangan tr. F. von Matthisson in Dublin Univ. Mag. Oct. 409 That lone Gate which the tall wild weeds encircle wreathingly.

1978 Bull. Volcanologique 41 254/2 The ash cloud rose wreathingly above the jet to a height of 6–8 km.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).

单词	wreathing
释义	wreathingn. Brit. /ˈriːðɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈriðɪŋ/ Forms: see wreathe v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wreathe v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < wreathe v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action or an act of interweaving or intertwining; (later) esp. the action of making wreaths. Also: the fact of being interwoven or intertwined. ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [noun] interlacing1532 twisting1552 wrapping1553 wreathing1553 interweaving1578 interlacement1603 contexture1649 intertexture1649 entwinementa1670 pleach1670 entwining1674 implexion1678 intertwisting1753 intertwine1817 intertwining1832 interramificationa1839 intertwinement1840 inweavement1842 interweavement1843 intertwist1870 twists and turns1884 interlace1904 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. vi. f. 105 By reason that the wreathing & wrappinge togither of the bowes kept them of from the bodies of the tres. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa6 Bowes and braunches..did..dilate Their clasping armes, in wanton wreathings intricate. 1661 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) ii. ii. 32 In strings there is required either wreathing or some..texture of component parts. 1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 131 Let them touch each other's hands, in a fresh wreathing Of their tender human youth! 1879 Specif. & Drawings of Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 20 May 579/1 The material used for making wreaths may be twigs of ordinary evergreens... ‘Ground-pine’..is well adapted for the purpose of wreathing. 1892 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 384 The poorer inhabitants of the Chase helped to support life by various small industries.., such as the wreathing of hurdles. 1989 E. Samuels Henry Adams xvi. 246 The simple elements of Polynesian life, the wreathing of garlands, dancing, and warfare. 1998 Associated Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 9 Sept. He describes wreathing, the traditional gathering of balsam fir tips made into Christmas wreaths shipped throughout the world. 2. †a. figurative. The action or an act of twisting the meaning of something. Cf. wreathe v. 2. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > instance of violence1546 wresting1551 wreathing1556 strain1579 wrest1581 mis-sense1615 by-signification1651 extortion1652 corruption1699 wrench1701 by-sense1782 corruptibility1847 torturing1855 twist1862 1556 L. Pollard Fyve Homilies sig. G.ii They vse the scripture with no lesse vnreuerent talke, gestyng, yea with wreathyng of it accordyng vnto theyr fonde braynes and phansies then they wolde or myght do a tale of Robyn hood. 1628 W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens 67 Which is a grosse abuse, a wreathing, a peruerting of the Scriptures. b. The action or an act of twisting or contorting something, esp. the body; writhing. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun] throwingOE wringinga1375 twining1398 wrenching1398 wresting1398 writhing?a1400 wrying1566 wreathing1571 convolution1597 twinding1602 contortion1611 distorquement1628 distortion1718 twisting1725 quirling1754 circumgyration1843 1571 Dict. French & Eng. Torsement, a wreathing. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiii. 223 Leauing their mouings free; which yet..shall come to the end which God hath listed to appoint vnto them, whatsoeuer windings and wreathings they seeme to themselues to make. 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iv. vi. 348 His friend did notable iniurie to their amitie in searching out wreathings and ambages in the discouery of his most hidden thoughts to him. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 34 By the wreathing of their bodies..they seek to avoid the pursuer. 1641 T. Fannant True Relation Parl. Richard II 37 Those infinit wreathings of contention. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. v. 8 Touching the Contorsion or Wreathing of the recurrent Nerve. 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 130 The Earth-Worm..by a sort of wreathing..takes hold of the Ground with its small Feet. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 456 The sun,..whose oblique course is not unaptly represented by the wreathings of a snake. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 451 The attendants told me, from the wreathing of her body.., that she would soon have another fit. 1984 E. Bryan Against All Odds xvi. 285 His imaginative tongue stormed her senses and provoked a spontaneous wreathing of her slim body. c. An instance of smoke, vapour, etc., moving with a twisting or coiling motion; a wreath of smoke, vapour, etc. ΘΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > of smoke, mist, or cloud wralling1398 wreath1633 spire1699 wreathing1818 folding1853 1818 Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. Feb. 286/1 The swarthy wreathing of the flame. 1823 J. Baillie in Coll. of Poems 260 [Steam] With tressy wreathings playing in the air. 1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche viii. xxiii. 101 Mid the wreathings of the vapour dim The goddess grew in glory visible. 1921 Table Talk (Melbourne) 15 Dec. She paralleled with the movements of her body the wreathings of the smoke from the censer that stood on either side of her. 1995 Independent (Nexis) 13 May 25 There was just a blur of jeans and T-shirts and muscle and a great wreathing of cigarette smoke, through which I felt as though I was wading. 3. concrete. Something which has been twisted into a circular shape; something composed of intertwined or interwoven elements; esp. a wreath, a garland. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > garland or wreath flower-garland1303 garland1303 aneusc1500 whip1513 crants1592 anadem1598 wreathing1600 festoon1610 swag1795 lei1843 wreathage1872 garlandage1885 the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > condition of being twisted spirally > spirally twisted object wreathOE writhec1400 wreathing1600 twist1604 writh1650 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xiii. 449 And for these grafts it is ynough, if euerie one of them, haue one good eielet or two aboue the wreathing. 1887 Gardeners' Monthly & Horticulturist May 156/2 The wreathing is made of Holly. 1907 W. Raymond Bk. Crafts & Char. vi. 48 Amongst the remains of the lake village on the moors near Glastonbury, wreathing has been found that does not materially differ from the hurdle of to-day. 1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 July a10 The five tall panels are done in the grisaille style and are embellished with delicate wreathings of foliage and narrow bands of pale color. 2019 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 5 Sept. 28 Princess Mary was also in grey, and wore a smart grey hat of silk, with a narrow wreathing of ostrich feathers. 4. The action of adorning a person or thing with a wreath; the action of laying a wreath on a tomb or monument. Also as a modifier, esp. in wreathing ceremony. Cf. wreath-laying n. at wreath n. Compounds 2. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > garland or wreath > action of wreathing embowerment1846 wreathing1852 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > award for merit > wreath or fillet > investing with crowninga1250 laureation1778 wreathing1852 1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece IX. ii. lxx. 137 The operations of wreathing and unwreathing must here have been performed by the soldiers symbolically. 1899 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 3 338 The two things that struck him as most important about the myth of Athamas were the wreathing of the hero for sacrifice and his madness. 1969 R. Gilman Confusion of Realms (1970) 193 Solness climbs up the tower for the traditional wreathing ceremony. 1987 Green & Grey (Loyola College, Maryland) 14 Dec. 5/6 The New York Public Library has its annual ‘wreathing of the Lions’. 2014 Free Lance-St (Fredericksburg, Va.) (Nexis) 8 Nov. Wreathing and ceremony: 9 a.m., American Legion Post 290. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). wreathingadj. Brit. /ˈriːðɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈriðɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wreathe v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < wreathe v. + -ing suffix².Earlier currency is perhaps shown by the following example, in which wrethyng teames denotes part of the gear of a plough (compare team n. 5a):?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iii^v He must haue his plough and his..horses, and the geyr that longeth to them..yokes, landes, stylkinges, wrethyng teames [1598 rev. ed. wrethen teames].However, the meaning (and part of speech) of wrethyng is uncertain; the editor of the revised edition of 1598 appears to have regarded the word as an error for wrethen wreathen adj. That wreathes (in various senses of wreathe v.); esp. twisting, coiling, encircling. ΘΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] rollingc1400 whorling1578 wreathing1584 twininga1593 wreathy1644 volvulous1657 coiling1718 vining1806 swirling1807 convolutionary1903 1584 T. Stocker tr. P. Viret Cauteles, Canon & Ceremonies Popish Masse 101 The writhing and wreathing countenances that are to be vsed in this other Antique. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 717 The splents of the spire are smooth and not deep, being for the most part like vnto the wreathing turnings of Snailes. 1677 J. Dryden State Innocence iii. i. 16 When your kind Eyes look'd languishing on mine, And wreathing Arms did soft embraces joyn. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 18 Unbidden Earth shall wreathing Ivy bring. 1719 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia v. 180 To cast from off her Brow the wreathing Green. 1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth vi. 13 In red and wreathing columns flash'd The flame. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. vi. 179 The wreathing water in the rapids hurrying on to take its fearful plunge. 1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 327 The wreathing mists and wandering clouds of such a day. 1977 M. Hardwick Charlie is my Darling (U.S. ed.) vi. 77 A huge, rambling house built round an inn-yard pretty with pot-flowers and wreathing vines. 2015 Time Out (Nexis) 31 Mar. 20 A basement bar is a place to hunker down, hide out and lose yourself in the wreathing coils of ‘smoke’ rising off your fancy liquid-nitrogen cocktail. Derivatives ˈwreathingly adv. now rare in a twisting or coiling manner; so as to surround or encircle. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adverb] verticularly1657 twiningly1731 voluminously1745 wreathingly1821 1821 S. Bullen Mary de Rochford iii. 102 The light which at intervals shone, And wreathingly played on the pillars of stone. 1835 J. C. Mangan tr. F. von Matthisson in Dublin Univ. Mag. Oct. 409 That lone Gate which the tall wild weeds encircle wreathingly. 1978 Bull. Volcanologique 41 254/2 The ash cloud rose wreathingly above the jet to a height of 6–8 km. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1553adj.1584
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