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[The parrot's] voice..is more like a man's than that of any other [bird] ; the raven is too hoarse, and the jay and magpie too shrill, to resemble the truth | truth | /dictionary/truth_n?tab=factsheet#17397989 | null | null | n. & adv. | 7 | Old English– | In general or abstract sense: that which is true, real, or actual; reality; spec. (in religious use) spiritual reality as the subject of revelation… | 1531–1774 | ["noun", "II. Something that conforms with fact or reality.", "\u2020\u00a0That which is real or genuine, as distinguished from an imitation; the genuine article. Obsolete ."] | 1,531 | 1,774 | 1774 | [The parrot's] voice..is more like a man's than that of any other [bird] ; the raven is too hoarse, and the jay and magpie too shrill, to resemble the truth . | O. Goldsmith , History of Earth vol. V. 270 | 1,774 |
It is ordered that there be a Collectione this month for the seruis of the truth | truth | /dictionary/truth_n?tab=factsheet#17397989 | null | null | n. & adv. | 7 | Old English– | In general or abstract sense: that which is true, real, or actual; reality; spec. (in religious use) spiritual reality as the subject of revelation… | c1384– | ["noun", "II. Something that conforms with fact or reality.", "True religious belief or doctrine; orthodoxy. Often with the , denoting a particular form of belief or teaching held to be true. Cf. sense A.II.6 ."] | 1,384 | null | 1662 | It is ordered that there be a Collectione this month for the seruis of the truth . | in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Society) (1911) 2nd Series 144 | 1,662 |
The inspired writers have so often called the gospel revelation, the truth | truth | /dictionary/truth_n?tab=factsheet#17397989 | null | null | n. & adv. | 7 | Old English– | In general or abstract sense: that which is true, real, or actual; reality; spec. (in religious use) spiritual reality as the subject of revelation… | c1384– | ["noun", "II. Something that conforms with fact or reality.", "True religious belief or doctrine; orthodoxy. Often with the , denoting a particular form of belief or teaching held to be true. Cf. sense A.II.6 ."] | 1,384 | null | 1795 | The inspired writers have so often called the gospel revelation, the truth . | J. Macknight , New Literal Translation Apostolical Epistles vol. III. 139 | 1,795 |
It is not sufficient that we walk in the light, unless we do the truth | truth | /dictionary/truth_n?tab=factsheet#17397989 | null | null | n. & adv. | 7 | Old English– | In general or abstract sense: that which is true, real, or actual; reality; spec. (in religious use) spiritual reality as the subject of revelation… | c1384– | ["noun", "II. Something that conforms with fact or reality.", "Conduct or actions characteristic of devotion to God and in accordance with true religious belief; piety. Chiefly in to do the truth (formerly also \u2020 to do truth ): to act or behave righteously and piously. Cf. sense A.I.3 . Now archaic (in later use c... | 1,384 | null | 1769 | It is not sufficient that we walk in the light, unless we do the truth . | T. Dunckerly in W. Calcott, Candid Disquis. Princ. & Pract. Masons 142 | 1,769 |
One attains authentic existence..by concretely doing the truth | truth | /dictionary/truth_n?tab=factsheet#17397989 | null | null | n. & adv. | 7 | Old English– | In general or abstract sense: that which is true, real, or actual; reality; spec. (in religious use) spiritual reality as the subject of revelation… | c1384– | ["noun", "II. Something that conforms with fact or reality.", "Conduct or actions characteristic of devotion to God and in accordance with true religious belief; piety. Chiefly in to do the truth (formerly also \u2020 to do truth ): to act or behave righteously and piously. Cf. sense A.I.3 . Now archaic (in later use c... | 1,384 | null | 1990 | One attains authentic existence..by concretely doing the truth . | G. R. Lewis & B. A. Demarest , Integrative Theology vol. II. iii. 141/1 | 1,990 |
The interior of the two houses of Pansa and Sallust..restored..with great apparent truth | truth | /dictionary/truth_n?tab=factsheet#17397989 | null | null | n. & adv. | 7 | Old English– | In general or abstract sense: that which is true, real, or actual; reality; spec. (in religious use) spiritual reality as the subject of revelation… | 1828– | ["noun", "III. Conformity with fact, reality, a standard, a pattern, etc.", "Architecture . Conformity between a work's appearance and reality; absence of techniques (e.g. the use of paint or plaster to imitate stonework) which create a false impression of the materials or methods of construction used."] | 1,828 | null | 1828 | The interior of the two houses of Pansa and Sallust..restored..with great apparent truth . | R. Duppa , Travels in Italy 105 | 1,828 |
What will repair beauty at forty, will certainly improve it at twenty | twenty | /dictionary/twenty_adj?tab=factsheet#17241225 | null | null | adj. & n. | 7 | Old English– | Combined with the numerals below ten (one to nine) to express the numbers between twenty and thirty; formerly (and still occasionally) one and… | 1773– | ["adjective", "spec. with ellipsis of years (of age); so twenty-one , etc."] | 1,773 | null | 1773 | What will repair beauty at forty, will certainly improve it at twenty . | O. Goldsmith , She stoops to Conquer iii. 52 | 1,773 |
When the quantity of heat necessary to raise a body one degree is different in different parts of the scale, the specific heat is said to be variable | variable | /dictionary/variable_adj?tab=factsheet#15867883 | 1,387 | null | adj. & n. | 7 | a1387– | Liable or apt to vary or change; (readily) susceptible or capable of variation; mutable, changeable… In miscellaneous applications. | 1607– | ["adjective", "Susceptible or admitting of increase or diminution, not remaining the same or uniform, in respect of size, number, amount, or degree."] | 1,607 | null | 1858 | When the quantity of heat necessary to raise a body one degree is different in different parts of the scale, the specific heat is said to be variable . | D. Lardner , Hand-book of Natural Philosophy: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new edition) 281 | 1,858 |
The limit of the ratio..will be obtained by dividing the differential of the function by that of the variable | variable | /dictionary/variable_adj?tab=factsheet#15867883 | 1,387 | null | adj. & n. | 7 | a1387– | Liable or apt to vary or change; (readily) susceptible or capable of variation; mutable, changeable… In miscellaneous applications. | 1816– | ["noun", "Mathematics and Physics . A quantity or force which, throughout a mathematical calculation or investigation, is assumed to vary or be capable of varying in value. Cf. A.6b and constant n."] | 1,816 | null | 1816 | The limit of the ratio..will be obtained by dividing the differential of the function by that of the variable . | translation of S. F. Lacroix, Elementary Treatise on Differential & Integral Calculus 4 | 1,816 |
Therefore in Pleasures both Body and Soule desire with fulnesse of Pleasure to have fulnesse of variety | variety | /dictionary/variety_n?tab=factsheet#15878067 | 1,533 | null | n. | 7 | a1533– | The fact, quality, or condition of being varied; diversity of nature or character; absence of monotony, sameness, or uniformity. | 1567– | ["Without article."] | 1,567 | null | a1634 | Therefore in Pleasures both Body and Soule desire with fulnesse of Pleasure to have fulnesse of variety . | W. Austin , Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 270 | 1,634 |
We judge of things according to the humour we are in and that very Humour is subject to infinite Variety | variety | /dictionary/variety_n?tab=factsheet#15878067 | 1,533 | null | n. | 7 | a1533– | The fact, quality, or condition of being varied; diversity of nature or character; absence of monotony, sameness, or uniformity. | 1567– | ["Without article."] | 1,567 | null | a1721 | We judge of things according to the humour we are in and that very Humour is subject to infinite Variety . | M. Prior , Ess. Opinion in Dialogues of Dead in Works (1907) vol. II. 196 | 1,721 |
It is an inflammatory affection, but destitute of redness;..the name of phlegmasia alba, or white inflammation, will therefore sufficiently characterize this variety | variety | /dictionary/variety_n?tab=factsheet#15878067 | 1,533 | null | n. | 7 | a1533– | The fact, quality, or condition of being varied; diversity of nature or character; absence of monotony, sameness, or uniformity. | 1753– | ["So in the classification of inorganic substances or of diseases."] | 1,753 | null | 1806 | It is an inflammatory affection, but destitute of redness;..the name of phlegmasia alba, or white inflammation, will therefore sufficiently characterize this variety of it. | Medical & Physical Journal vol. 15 5 | 1,806 |
God so commanded, and left that Command Sole Daughter of his voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | c1350– | ["I. Sound produced by and characteristic of a specific person or animal. (A particularized instance of the phenomenon described in branch II )", "I.1. Sound produced by the vocal organs, esp. when speaking or singing, and regarded as characteristic of an individual person. Also: the individual organic means or capacit... | 1,350 | null | 1667 | God so commanded, and left that Command Sole Daughter of his voice . | J. Milton , Paradise Lost ix. 653 | 1,667 |
He inwardly did pray For power to speak; but still the ruddy tide Stifled his voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | c1380– | ["I. Sound produced by and characteristic of a specific person or animal. (A particularized instance of the phenomenon described in branch II )", "I.1. Sound produced by the vocal organs, esp. when speaking or singing, and regarded as characteristic of an individual person. Also: the individual organic means or capacit... | 1,380 | null | 1820 | He inwardly did pray For power to speak; but still the ruddy tide Stifled his voice . | J. Keats , Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 52 | 1,820 |
Besides painting [he] had a talent for music and a good voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | a1382– | ["I. Sound produced by and characteristic of a specific person or animal. (A particularized instance of the phenomenon described in branch II )", "I.1. Sound produced by the vocal organs, esp. when speaking or singing, and regarded as characteristic of an individual person. Also: the individual organic means or capacit... | 1,382 | null | 1763 | Besides painting [he] had a talent for music and a good voice . | H. Walpole , Vertue's Anecdotes of Painting vol. III. i. 22 | 1,763 |
‘Come here, both of you’, says the lady, in a deep, awful voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | a1382– | ["I. Sound produced by and characteristic of a specific person or animal. (A particularized instance of the phenomenon described in branch II )", "I.1. Sound produced by the vocal organs, esp. when speaking or singing, and regarded as characteristic of an individual person. Also: the individual organic means or capacit... | 1,382 | null | 1846 | ‘Come here, both of you’, says the lady, in a deep, awful voice . | A. Marsh , Father Darcy vol. II. i. 32 | 1,846 |
Since I've got the salt water down my throat, devil burn me, I've lost my voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | a1393– | ["I. Sound produced by and characteristic of a specific person or animal. (A particularized instance of the phenomenon described in branch II )", "I.1. Sound produced by the vocal organs, esp. when speaking or singing, and regarded as characteristic of an individual person. Also: the individual organic means or capacit... | 1,393 | null | 1797 | Since I've got the salt water down my throat, devil burn me, I've lost my voice . | J. Beete , Man of Times ii. vi. 30 | 1,797 |
A convention..ratified the constitution without a dissenting voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | 1612– | ["I. Sound produced by and characteristic of a specific person or animal. (A particularized instance of the phenomenon described in branch II )", "I.1. Sound produced by the vocal organs, esp. when speaking or singing, and regarded as characteristic of an individual person. Also: the individual organic means or capacit... | 1,612 | null | 1796 | A convention..ratified the constitution without a dissenting voice . | J. Morse , American Universal Geography (new edition) vol. I. 329 | 1,796 |
Only the occasional Transcendentalist raised an earnest objecting voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | 1612– | ["I. Sound produced by and characteristic of a specific person or animal. (A particularized instance of the phenomenon described in branch II )", "I.1. Sound produced by the vocal organs, esp. when speaking or singing, and regarded as characteristic of an individual person. Also: the individual organic means or capacit... | 1,612 | null | 1949 | Only the occasional Transcendentalist raised an earnest objecting voice . | Church History vol. 18 257 | 1,949 |
The scientific reason urgently seeks instruments and a voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | 1604– | ["I. Sound produced by and characteristic of a specific person or animal. (A particularized instance of the phenomenon described in branch II )", "The agency or means by which something specified is expressed, represented, or revealed."] | 1,604 | null | 1872 | The scientific reason urgently seeks instruments and a voice . | J. Morley , Voltaire i. 3 | 1,872 |
Methought Close at mine ear one call'd me forth to walk With gentle voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | c1330– | ["II. The sound that can be produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals, considered as a general fact or phenomenon.", "II.7. Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose; esp. sound formed in the human larynx in speaking, singing, or other utterance; vocal... | 1,330 | null | 1667 | Methought Close at mine ear one call'd me forth to walk With gentle voice . | J. Milton , Paradise Lost v. 37 | 1,667 |
Thou [ sc. the Bible] art the great Elixir, rare, and Choice;..The Word in Characters, God in the Voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | a1375– | ["II. The sound that can be produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals, considered as a general fact or phenomenon.", "II.7. Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose; esp. sound formed in the human larynx in speaking, singing, or other utterance; vocal... | 1,375 | null | 1650 | Thou [ sc. the Bible] art the great Elixir, rare, and Choice;..The Word in Characters, God in the Voice . | H. Vaughan , Silex Scintillans 60 | 1,650 |
The phonograph proved a poor substitute in clarity and tone for the human voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | a1375– | ["II. The sound that can be produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals, considered as a general fact or phenomenon.", "II.7. Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose; esp. sound formed in the human larynx in speaking, singing, or other utterance; vocal... | 1,375 | null | 2005 | The phonograph proved a poor substitute in clarity and tone for the human voice . | D. Gomery , Coming of Sound iii. 26 | 2,005 |
Finally he just stands, gripping her shoulders, Blasting her from all sides with voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | a1400– | ["II. The sound that can be produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals, considered as a general fact or phenomenon.", "II.7. Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose; esp. sound formed in the human larynx in speaking, singing, or other utterance; vocal... | 1,400 | null | 1977 | Finally he just stands, gripping her shoulders, Blasting her from all sides with voice . | T. Hughes , Gaudete 34 | 1,977 |
After freeing the country from foreign foes..the awakened people at once prepared to establish a stable government by the general voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | a1393– | ["II. The sound that can be produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals, considered as a general fact or phenomenon.", "II.9. The expressed opinion, judgement, or will of a body of people, occasionally as shown by voting. Cf. sense I.3 .", "With preceding adjective, as common , popular , public , etc."] | 1,393 | null | 1904 | After freeing the country from foreign foes..the awakened people at once prepared to establish a stable government by the general voice . | American Law Register vol. 52 634 | 1,904 |
The state legislatures began nominating Lincoln for a second term. It looked as though they had heard the People's voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | 1488– | ["II. The sound that can be produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals, considered as a general fact or phenomenon.", "II.9. The expressed opinion, judgement, or will of a body of people, occasionally as shown by voting. Cf. sense I.3 .", "With of or genitive."] | 1,488 | null | 1960 | The state legislatures began nominating Lincoln for a second term. It looked as though they had heard the People's voice . | D. C. Coyle , Ordeal of Presidency vi. 183 | 1,960 |
Quen þat þai faght..And moises held his hand o-loft, To-quils he heild his hend on croice, Ai haid his aun folk þe voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | a1400 | ["II. The sound that can be produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals, considered as a general fact or phenomenon.", "\u2020\u00a0The supremacy or upper hand in a struggle. Obsolete . rare ."] | 1,400 | null | a1400 | Quen þat þai faght..And moises held his hand o-loft, To-quils he heild his hend on croice, Ai haid his aun folk þe voice . | Cursor Mundi (Vespasian MS.) l. 21694 | 1,400 |
They..devised and ordained many precious rules for the preservation of the holy Text, to every Hebrew letter and voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | 1648– | ["II. The sound that can be produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals, considered as a general fact or phenomenon.", "Phonetics . Sound produced or uttered with vibration of the vocal cords, as distinguished from breath . Cf. voiced adj. 3 , voiceless adj. A.5 ."] | 1,648 | null | 1648 | They..devised and ordained many precious rules for the preservation of the holy Text, to every Hebrew letter and voice. | W. Pynchon , Endevour after Reconcilement Iews Synagogues iii. 85 | 1,648 |
A vibration of those Cartilaginous Bodies which forms that Breath, into a Vocal sound or Voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | 1648– | ["II. The sound that can be produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals, considered as a general fact or phenomenon.", "Phonetics . Sound produced or uttered with vibration of the vocal cords, as distinguished from breath . Cf. voiced adj. 3 , voiceless adj. A.5 ."] | 1,648 | null | 1669 | A vibration of those Cartilaginous Bodies which forms that Breath, into a Vocal sound or Voice . | W. Holder , Elements of Speech 23 | 1,669 |
The consonants are conveniently classed into those with and those without voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | 1648– | ["II. The sound that can be produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals, considered as a general fact or phenomenon.", "Phonetics . Sound produced or uttered with vibration of the vocal cords, as distinguished from breath . Cf. voiced adj. 3 , voiceless adj. A.5 ."] | 1,648 | null | 1842 | The consonants are conveniently classed into those with and those without voice . | Penny Cyclopaedia vol. XXII. 429/2 | 1,842 |
An effort now being made, he said—making suspicious use of the passive voice | voice | /dictionary/voice_n?tab=factsheet#15428632 | 1,300 | null | n. | 7 | c1300– | Sound produced by the vocal organs of humans or animals and usually uttered through the mouth or nose… With an adjective denoting quality or tone… | c1425– | ["III. Grammar .", "A category used in the classification of verb forms serving to indicate the relation of the subject to the action."] | 1,425 | null | 1991 | An effort now being made, he said—making suspicious use of the passive voice . | ‘J. le Carré’ , Secret Pilgrim vi. 128 | 1,991 |
The shops of the great book~sellers..were crowded..and a known customer was often permitted to carry a volume | volume | /dictionary/volume_n?tab=factsheet#15463529 | 1,380 | null | n. | 7 | c1380– | A separately bound portion or division of a work; one of two or more portions into which a work of some size is divided with a view to separate… | c1380– | ["I. A written or printed text, and related uses.", "A collection of written or printed sheets bound together so as to form a book; a tome."] | 1,380 | null | 1849 | The shops of the great book~sellers..were crowded..and a known customer was often permitted to carry a volume home. | T. B. Macaulay , History of England vol. I. iii. 394 | 1,849 |
Item, whether you haue in your Churche a Bible, of the largest volume | volume | /dictionary/volume_n?tab=factsheet#15463529 | 1,380 | null | n. | 7 | c1380– | A separately bound portion or division of a work; one of two or more portions into which a work of some size is divided with a view to separate… | 1538–1753 | ["II. Bulk, size, mass, and related uses.", "II.5. \u2020", "\u2020 of the largest volume , with reference to copies of the Bible. Obsolete ."] | 1,538 | 1,753 | 1569 | Item, whether you haue in your Churche a Bible, of the largest volume . | Bishop J. Parkhurst , Injunct. A iv, 3. | 1,569 |
It [ sc. the great hall] is beautifyed with rare pictures in a great volume | volume | /dictionary/volume_n?tab=factsheet#15463529 | 1,380 | null | n. | 7 | c1380– | A separately bound portion or division of a work; one of two or more portions into which a work of some size is divided with a view to separate… | 1621– | ["II. Bulk, size, mass, and related uses.", "A particular bulk, mass, or quantity as an attribute of a thing. Also figurative ."] | 1,621 | null | 1670 | It [ sc. the great hall] is beautifyed with rare pictures in a great volume . | S. Wilson , Lassels's Voyage of Italy (new edition) ii. 49 | 1,670 |
I..dressed immediately, that I might make no one wait | wait | /dictionary/wait_v1?tab=factsheet#15220619 | 1,200 | null | v.¹ | 7 | c1200– | intransitive or absol. To remain in a place, defer one's departure until something happens. Often to wait for = sense 6. | c1405– | ["The simple verb.", "7. intransitive or absol.", "To remain in a place, defer one's departure until something happens. Often to wait for = sense 6 ."] | 1,405 | null | 1711 | I..dressed immediately, that I might make no one wait . | R. Steele , Spectator No. 132. ⁋1 | 1,711 |
I must drive back to Genzano. I told the vetturino to wait | wait | /dictionary/wait_v1?tab=factsheet#15220619 | 1,200 | null | v.¹ | 7 | c1200– | intransitive or absol. To remain in a place, defer one's departure until something happens. Often to wait for = sense 6. | c1405– | ["The simple verb.", "7. intransitive or absol.", "To remain in a place, defer one's departure until something happens. Often to wait for = sense 6 ."] | 1,405 | null | 1905 | I must drive back to Genzano. I told the vetturino to wait . | R. Bagot , Passport xi. 104 | 1,905 |
Mr. Asquith has deemed it not incompatible with the gravity of his office to elude the curiosity of his opponents with the absurd formula, ‘ Wait | wait | /dictionary/wait_v1?tab=factsheet#15220619 | 1,200 | null | v.¹ | 7 | c1200– | intransitive or absol. To remain in a place, defer one's departure until something happens. Often to wait for = sense 6. | 1719– | ["The simple verb.", "7. intransitive or absol.", "to wait and see (with indirect question or ellipsis of this): to await the course of events. Also to wait till one sees , and wait and see n. phr."] | 1,719 | null | 1910 | Mr. Asquith has deemed it not incompatible with the gravity of his office to elude the curiosity of his opponents with the absurd formula, ‘ Wait and see ’. | Blackwood's Magazine May 747/1 | 1,910 |
Mod. This letter must be answered at once; the others can wait | wait | /dictionary/wait_v1?tab=factsheet#15220619 | 1,200 | null | v.¹ | 7 | c1200– | intransitive or absol. To remain in a place, defer one's departure until something happens. Often to wait for = sense 6. | 1838– | ["The simple verb.", "7. intransitive or absol.", "transferred . Of a thing: To remain in readiness for some purpose. Also, to remain for a while neglected."] | 1,838 | null | 1921 | Mod. This letter must be answered at once; the others can wait . | New English Dictionary (OED first edition) at Wait | 1,921 |
Parents brazened out their children's tantrums with the key-phase of, ‘ You wait | wait | /dictionary/wait_v1?tab=factsheet#15220619 | 1,200 | null | v.¹ | 7 | c1200– | intransitive or absol. To remain in a place, defer one's departure until something happens. Often to wait for = sense 6. | 1938– | ["The simple verb.", "7. intransitive or absol.", "(you) wait till ( or until).. , used to imply a threat, warning, etc., or promise of something interesting or exciting, when the specified event has occurred. Also elliptical as you wait!"] | 1,938 | null | 1953 | Parents brazened out their children's tantrums with the key-phase of, ‘ You wait !’. | E. Simon , Past Masters iii. iii. 154 | 1,953 |
This Hicks..was also Author..of other little trivial matters meerly to get bread, and make the pot walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1563–1746 | ["II. To move about, journey, circulate. In most senses now taken as an extended use of Branch IV", "II.5. Of a thing.", "\u2020 intransitive . Of drink, etc.: to circulate, be handed round. Obsolete ."] | 1,563 | 1,746 | 1691 | This Hicks..was also Author..of other little trivial matters meerly to get bread, and make the pot walk . | A. Wood , Athenæ Oxonienses vol. II. 157 | 1,691 |
O Ignorance, how foolish thou dost talk! I'st happinesse in Ignorance to walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | a1200– | ["III. To pass one's life, conduct oneself, live, be in a certain condition. In most senses now taken as an extended use of Branch IV", "III.7. figurative .", "intransitive . Chiefly after biblical usage: to pass one's life; to conduct oneself, behave (well, badly, wisely, unwisely, etc.). Often with reference to a met... | 1,200 | null | 1653 | O Ignorance, how foolish thou dost talk! I'st happinesse in Ignorance to walk ? | Duchess of Newcastle , Poems & Fancies 85 | 1,653 |
I am now resolved..to think upon some rules and obligacions upon myself to walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1574– | ["III. To pass one's life, conduct oneself, live, be in a certain condition. In most senses now taken as an extended use of Branch IV", "III.7. figurative .", "intransitive . To direct one's conduct by , after a rule, etc."] | 1,574 | null | 1662 | I am now resolved..to think upon some rules and obligacions upon myself to walk by. | S. Pepys , Diary 1 March (1970) vol. III. 39 | 1,662 |
I would much rather see them going to be hanged with their cloaths-on, than to see them only walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | c1250–1847 | ["III. To pass one's life, conduct oneself, live, be in a certain condition. In most senses now taken as an extended use of Branch IV", "\u2020 intransitive . With adjectival complement or phrase denoting a state or condition in which one (habitually) finds oneself or puts oneself in (in later use esp. with regard to c... | 1,250 | 1,847 | 1769 | I would much rather see them going to be hanged with their cloaths-on, than to see them only walk naked. | Batchelor vol. I. 180 | 1,769 |
[At Spa] There is a pleasant garden of the Capuciners, where drinkers of the waters generallie walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | a1375– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.9. To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so that one of the feet is always on the ground.", "intransitive . To move about or go from place to place on foot for exercise or recreation; to take a walk or wa... | 1,375 | null | 1685 | [At Spa] There is a pleasant garden of the Capuciners, where drinkers of the waters generallie walk . | in W. Mure, Selections Family Papers Caldwell (1854) vol. I. 153 | 1,685 |
As he spoke, Mr. Grey rose from table and invited them to walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | a1375– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.9. To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so that one of the feet is always on the ground.", "intransitive . To move about or go from place to place on foot for exercise or recreation; to take a walk or wa... | 1,375 | null | 1830 | As he spoke, Mr. Grey rose from table and invited them to walk . | Portugal; or The Young Travellers 239 | 1,830 |
Jolter, with great ceremony, complimented his reverence with the pas, beseeching him to walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1599– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.9. To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so that one of the feet is always on the ground.", "intransitive . With in , up ; also with into , this way , etc. In invitations to enter a room, approach, etc. (... | 1,599 | null | 1751 | Jolter, with great ceremony, complimented his reverence with the pas, beseeching him to walk in. | T. Smollett , Peregrine Pickle vol. II. lx. 176 | 1,751 |
The very steep ascent of Chatham Hill, which most riders will walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1631– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.9. To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so that one of the feet is always on the ground.", "intransitive and transitive . In express or implied opposition to ride , drive , etc. Also with it as object."] | 1,631 | null | 1883 | The very steep ascent of Chatham Hill, which most riders will walk . | C. Howard , Roads Eng. & Wales (ed. 3) 3 | 1,883 |
This is a good judge sitting today... He's liable to call you a tramp, but if he can, he'll let you walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1958– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.9. To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so that one of the feet is always on the ground.", "intransitive . slang (originally and chiefly U.S. ). = to walk free at Phrases P.14 ."] | 1,958 | null | 1958 | This is a good judge sitting today... He's liable to call you a tramp, but if he can, he'll let you walk . | J. M. Murtagh & S. Harris , Cast First Stone vii. 105 | 1,958 |
Everybody knows that it's an awful thing for a dead man to walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | a1400– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "intransitive . Of a ghost, spectre, or fiend: to be seen moving about; to appear. Also of a dead person: to return as a ghost. \u2020Also with out ."] | 1,400 | null | 1882 | Everybody knows that it's an awful thing for a dead man to walk . | A. Jessopp in 19th Century November 737 | 1,882 |
Would ye rob the man before his body? Nay, he would walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | a1400– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "intransitive . Of a ghost, spectre, or fiend: to be seen moving about; to appear. Also of a dead person: to return as a ghost. \u2020Also with out ."] | 1,400 | null | 1888 | Would ye rob the man before his body? Nay, he would walk ! | R. L. Stevenson , Black Arrow Prologue 12 | 1,888 |
Their Horse being ty'd on a Balk, Is ready with Thief for to walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | c1450– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . \u2020Of an animal: to be stolen ( obsolete ). Of a thing: to be got rid of; to be carried off; (in later colloquial use) to go missing and be presumed to have been borrowed or stolen. \u2020 to let ( something ) wal... | 1,450 | null | 1653 | Their Horse being ty'd on a Balk, Is ready with Thief for to walk . | W. Blith , English Improver Improved (new edition) xiii. 89 | 1,653 |
Such commissions could never extend to cutlery, which, if interesting, tended to ‘ walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | c1450– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . \u2020Of an animal: to be stolen ( obsolete ). Of a thing: to be got rid of; to be carried off; (in later colloquial use) to go missing and be presumed to have been borrowed or stolen. \u2020 to let ( something ) wal... | 1,450 | null | 1989 | Such commissions could never extend to cutlery, which, if interesting, tended to ‘ walk ’. | Times 21 September 13/6 | 1,989 |
Mark Ramprakash spooned one up to extra cover, Jacques Kallis lurched forward to scoop up the catch, yet Ramps didn't walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1960– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . Cricket . Of a batter: to dismiss oneself voluntarily by walking towards the pavilion without waiting to be given out by the umpire; also with out ."] | 1,960 | null | 1998 | Mark Ramprakash spooned one up to extra cover, Jacques Kallis lurched forward to scoop up the catch, yet Ramps didn't walk . | Birmingham Post (Nexis) 1 August 9 | 1,998 |
Our baby sitter founded the Sitters' Union. They get TV, cookies, and root beer, or they walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1976– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . = to walk out 3a at Phrasal verbs 3a , to walk out 3b at Phrasal verbs 3b . Also: to quit a job. Cf. also to walk away at Phrasal verbs PV.1 ."] | 1,976 | null | 1976 | Our baby sitter founded the Sitters' Union. They get TV, cookies, and root beer, or they walk . | National Observer (U.S.) 14 August 16/3 | 1,976 |
After multiple bad experiences..the vast majority [of customers] do not fill out a survey or complain—they just walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1976– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . = to walk out 3a at Phrasal verbs 3a , to walk out 3b at Phrasal verbs 3b . Also: to quit a job. Cf. also to walk away at Phrasal verbs PV.1 ."] | 1,976 | null | 2007 | After multiple bad experiences..the vast majority [of customers] do not fill out a survey or complain—they just walk . | M. G. Brown , Beyond Balanced Scorecard iv. 81 | 2,007 |
Why shall a Man practise Coupees, who only means to walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | a1628– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.16. With emphasis on the gait or pace.", "intransitive . Of a human being or other biped, contrasted with run , hop , etc. Cf. walk n. 1 II.8 ."] | 1,628 | null | 1760 | Why shall a Man practise Coupees, who only means to walk ? | R. Griffith & E. Griffith , Letters Henry & Frances (ed. 2) vol. II. ccxxi. 144 | 1,760 |
Among the land-birds, the grouse, pigeon, quails, larks, and various blackbirds, walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | a1628– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.16. With emphasis on the gait or pace.", "intransitive . Of a human being or other biped, contrasted with run , hop , etc. Cf. walk n. 1 II.8 ."] | 1,628 | null | 1871 | Among the land-birds, the grouse, pigeon, quails, larks, and various blackbirds, walk . | J. Burroughs , Wake-robin 222 | 1,871 |
If the Christian Democrats put enough candidates up at the next election they'll walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1779– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.16. With emphasis on the gait or pace.", "intransitive . To win a contest easily or without effort, in various phrases."] | 1,779 | null | 1977 | If the Christian Democrats put enough candidates up at the next election they'll walk in . | P. Hill , Fanatics 125 | 1,977 |
He's doing Common Entrance this year—we've put him down for Eton, and according to his head teacher, he's expected to walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1937– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.16. With emphasis on the gait or pace.", "intransitive , and transitive with it as object. colloquial . Esp. in a sporting contest: to win easily; (more generally) to achieve (one's aim) with little effort."] | 1,937 | null | 2005 | He's doing Common Entrance this year—we've put him down for Eton, and according to his head teacher, he's expected to walk it. | L. Kellaway , Who moved my Blackberry? (2006) i. 10 | 2,005 |
He stopped, and looked along the rosy dike, uttered a hasty exclamation, and ran down the wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1330– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "An embankment to hold back the water of a river or the sea. Cf. seawall n."] | 1,330 | null | 1898 | He stopped, and looked along the rosy dike, uttered a hasty exclamation, and ran down the wall . | P. H. Emerson , Marsh Leaves (revised edition) lix. 179 | 1,898 |
We will leave our homes unguarded—our hearts shall be their wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1412– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.3. figurative .", "Applied to a person or thing that serves as a defence."] | 1,412 | null | 1838 | We will leave our homes unguarded—our hearts shall be their wall ! | E. Bulwer-Lytton , Leila v. i. 222 | 1,838 |
A most stately Grove of Cocoes and Oranges..surrounded by a Wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | a1400– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.4. An enclosing structure composed of bricks, stones, or similar materials laid in courses. hollow wall , a wall built with an interior cavity or composed of hollow bricks. For blind , boulder , cob , dead , hot , list , rubble wall , etc., see those word... | 1,400 | null | 1698 | A most stately Grove of Cocoes and Oranges..surrounded by a Wall . | J. Fryer , New Account of East-India & Persia 7 | 1,698 |
All such as have been defrauded of their Right to the Wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1606– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.4. An enclosing structure composed of bricks, stones, or similar materials laid in courses. hollow wall , a wall built with an interior cavity or composed of hollow bricks. For blind , boulder , cob , dead , hot , list , rubble wall , etc., see those word... | 1,606 | null | 1710 | All such as have been defrauded of their Right to the Wall . | J. Addison , Tatler No. 250. ⁋11 | 1,710 |
My father had his legs blown off..when he tried to flee over the Wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1961– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.4. An enclosing structure composed of bricks, stones, or similar materials laid in courses. hollow wall , a wall built with an interior cavity or composed of hollow bricks. For blind , boulder , cob , dead , hot , list , rubble wall , etc., see those word... | 1,961 | null | 1977 | My father had his legs blown off..when he tried to flee over the Wall . | G. Markstein , Chance Awakening lxxviii. 243 | 1,977 |
Yet he sent..garden-herbs and fruit, The late and early roses from his wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1699– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.6. A wall considered with regard to its surface.", "A garden- or house-wall upon which fruit trees and flowering trees are trained."] | 1,699 | null | 1864 | Yet he sent..garden-herbs and fruit, The late and early roses from his wall . | Lord Tennyson , Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 19 | 1,864 |
They habitually looked on the sunny side of the wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1699– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.6. A wall considered with regard to its surface.", "A garden- or house-wall upon which fruit trees and flowering trees are trained."] | 1,699 | null | 1857 | They habitually looked on the sunny side of the wall . | A. Trollope , Barchester Towers vol. I. xix. 287 | 1,857 |
Thereafter, the other players, in counterclockwise rotation, each draw one tile, which may be the last discarded tile or a loose tile from the ‘ wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1922– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "In the game of mah-jong, the arrangement of tiles from which hands are drawn. Cf. tile n. 1 4b ."] | 1,922 | null | 1974 | Thereafter, the other players, in counterclockwise rotation, each draw one tile, which may be the last discarded tile or a loose tile from the ‘ wall ’. | Encyclopædia Britannica Micropædia vol. VI. 503/3 | 1,974 |
The ball was hit far over his head to the center field wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1928– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "Baseball . The barrier marking the outer perimeter of the outfield."] | 1,928 | null | 1928 | The ball was hit far over his head to the center field wall . | G. H. Ruth , Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball 117 | 1,928 |
The closest the Reds had come to a hit was Pete Rose's long drive to left-center in the third that Jim Dwyer caught at the wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1928– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "Baseball . The barrier marking the outer perimeter of the outfield."] | 1,928 | null | 1973 | The closest the Reds had come to a hit was Pete Rose's long drive to left-center in the third that Jim Dwyer caught at the wall . | International Herald Tribune 15 June 15/3 | 1,973 |
You thinke it strange..To see me low laie off effeminate robes, And arme my bodie in an iron wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1594– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "Something that confines or encloses like the wall of a house, prison, etc.; chiefly plural , the containing sides of a vessel, the vertical sides of a tent, and the like."] | 1,594 | null | 1594 | You thinke it strange..To see me low laie off effeminate robes, And arme my bodie in an iron wall . | 1st Part of Raigne of Selimus D 1 | 1,594 |
Lid the flan with pastry, having egged the top of the ‘ wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1747– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "The pastry forming the sides of a pie."] | 1,747 | null | 1959 | Lid the flan with pastry, having egged the top of the ‘ wall ’. | Listener 22 January 191/2 | 1,959 |
By þys tale ȝe mowe se alle þat fals sweryng wyl euyl befalle, Namlyche, on þe halydom whan he ys charged of any whom | whom | /dictionary/whom_pron?tab=factsheet#14414460 | null | null | pron. | 7 | Old English– | As indirect object (in Old English dative) (now rare) or as object of a preposition (or after than). In direct questions. | a1400 | ["pronoun The objective case of the personal interrogative and relative pronoun, corresponding to the subjective who pron. In Old English the dative or accusative case; cf. the discussion in the etymology.", "II. \u2020\u00a0Indefinite (non-relative) use.", "II.4. As direct object, indirect object, or object of a prepo... | 1,400 | null | a1400 | By þys tale ȝe mowe se alle þat fals sweryng wyl euyl befalle, Namlyche, on þe halydom whan he ys charged of any whom . | R. Mannyng , Handlyng Synne (Harley MS.) l. 2725 (Middle English Dictionary) | 1,400 |
Not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual celebrity—nay, you may call it an ocean- wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1845– | ["I. Having great extent; extensive.", "As the final element in combination with nouns denoting regions, areas, organizations, etc., with the sense \u2018extending over or throughout the whole area of \u2014\u2014 ; affecting or reaching the whole of \u2014\u2014 \u2019."] | 1,845 | null | 1851 | Not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual celebrity—nay, you may call it an ocean- wide renown. | H. Melville , Moby-Dick xlv. 226 | 1,851 |
Though his Verses are most Elegant,..yet the description is very wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1662– | ["I. Having great extent; extensive.", "Of a word, description, etc.: having a broad range of meaning or application; general, loose; inexplicit, vague."] | 1,662 | null | 1698 | Though his Verses are most Elegant,..yet the description is very wide . | J. Fryer , New Account of East-India & Persia 288 | 1,698 |
Later scholars have substituted the terms tense and lax for narrow and wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1824– | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "Phonetics . Of a vowel sound: pronounced with the muscles involved (esp. those of the tongue) in a relatively relaxed state; pronounced with a relatively wide opening of the mouth or (now esp.) of the pharyngeal cavity. Cf. la... | 1,824 | null | 1949 | Later scholars have substituted the terms tense and lax for narrow and wide . | R.-M. S. Heffner , General Phonetics v. 96 | 1,949 |
Thee, Druna , thee Druentia that doth glide With winding course betweene his bancks so wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | ?a1425– | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "Of two or more things: set far apart; widely spaced. Also of a thing: having widely-spaced constituent elements."] | 1,425 | null | 1635 | Thee, Druna , thee Druentia that doth glide With winding course betweene his bancks so wide . | W. Saltonstall , translation of G. Mercator, Historia Mundi 368 | 1,635 |
The Duc of Burgone..Made grete assemble in landes wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | c1425–1854 | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "\u2020\u00a0Situated a considerable distance away; distant, far off. Chiefly with of or from : situated at a specified distance from. Obsolete ."] | 1,425 | 1,854 | c1450 | The Duc of Burgone..Made grete assemble in landes wide . | Siege Calais (Rome MS.) in PMLA (1952) vol. 67 890 (Middle English Dictionary) | 1,450 |
Q: Yee conclude then, that..the actions of the diuel and al the wicked, are measured and directed by his [ sc. God's] prouidence... A: Or els it were wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1545–1657 | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "III.10. Chiefly in predicative use.", "\u2020\u00a0Not in accordance with the proper or desirable order of society, morality, etc.; inappropriate, unsuitable, improper. Obsolete ."] | 1,545 | 1,657 | 1583 | Q: Yee conclude then, that..the actions of the diuel and al the wicked, are measured and directed by his [ sc. God's] prouidence... A: Or els it were wide with vs. | G. Gifford , Catechisme sig. A7 | 1,583 |
Whoso heareth him, maye..thinke that he also with very litle a doe, mighte attaine to that perfection, but whan he commeth to the proofe shall finde himselfe farre wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1547–1830 | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "III.10. Chiefly in predicative use.", "\u2020\u00a0Far from the truth; that errs in opinion or belief; mistaken. Obsolete ."] | 1,547 | 1,830 | 1561 | Whoso heareth him, maye..thinke that he also with very litle a doe, mighte attaine to that perfection, but whan he commeth to the proofe shall finde himselfe farre wide . | T. Hoby , translation of B. Castiglione, Courtyer i. sig. F.iiii v | 1,561 |
Lear . Yar a spirit I know, where did you dye. Cord . Still, still, farre wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1547–1830 | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "III.10. Chiefly in predicative use.", "\u2020\u00a0Far from the truth; that errs in opinion or belief; mistaken. Obsolete ."] | 1,547 | 1,830 | 1608 | Lear . Yar a spirit I know, where did you dye. Cord . Still, still, farre wide . | W. Shakespeare , King Lear xxi. 48 | 1,608 |
Warning guns were fired from the fort; the first shots were wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | a1535– | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "Of a shot, throw, etc.: that misses to one side of a point aimed at (by a large distance); at a (large) distance to one side of an intended or correct target. Also in figurative contexts, esp. in wide of (also \u2020from) the ... | 1,535 | null | 1911 | Warning guns were fired from the fort; the first shots were wide . | U.S. Naval Inst. Proceedings December 1233 | 1,911 |
They were now headed for the safety of the open sea and the next shots were wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | a1535– | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "Of a shot, throw, etc.: that misses to one side of a point aimed at (by a large distance); at a (large) distance to one side of an intended or correct target. Also in figurative contexts, esp. in wide of (also \u2020from) the ... | 1,535 | null | 2014 | They were now headed for the safety of the open sea and the next shots were wide . | J. Stockwin , Pasha v. 140 | 2,014 |
Nero Caesar..had a Boy cut, as if hee would have transformed him into a Woman, and called him wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1549– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "In (esp. same-sex) relationships, other than marriage, in which the two partners are regarded as occupying roles analogous to those in a traditional mixed-sex marriage: the person assuming the role regarded as more stereotypically feminine, i.e. as being equivalent to that ... | 1,549 | null | 1636 | Nero Caesar..had a Boy cut, as if hee would have transformed him into a Woman, and called him wife . | R. Basset , translation of G. A. de Paoli, Lives Roman Emperors 181 | 1,636 |
[Elagabalus] clothed himself like a Woman, was married to a vile Man, and used as his Wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1549– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "In (esp. same-sex) relationships, other than marriage, in which the two partners are regarded as occupying roles analogous to those in a traditional mixed-sex marriage: the person assuming the role regarded as more stereotypically feminine, i.e. as being equivalent to that ... | 1,549 | null | 1692 | [Elagabalus] clothed himself like a Woman, was married to a vile Man, and used as his Wife . | O. Walker , Greek & Roman History ii. xiii. 250 | 1,692 |
Silius was converted by the insatiable Messalina into a Husband: and Sporus by the Monster Nero into a Wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1549– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "In (esp. same-sex) relationships, other than marriage, in which the two partners are regarded as occupying roles analogous to those in a traditional mixed-sex marriage: the person assuming the role regarded as more stereotypically feminine, i.e. as being equivalent to that ... | 1,549 | null | 1754 | Silius was converted by the insatiable Messalina into a Husband: and Sporus by the Monster Nero into a Wife . | W. Hay , Deformity 67 | 1,754 |
She [ sc. a woman who has been passing as a married man] vehemently refuses to consent that any sum shall be set apart as a provision for her so-called wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1549– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "In (esp. same-sex) relationships, other than marriage, in which the two partners are regarded as occupying roles analogous to those in a traditional mixed-sex marriage: the person assuming the role regarded as more stereotypically feminine, i.e. as being equivalent to that ... | 1,549 | null | 1838 | She [ sc. a woman who has been passing as a married man] vehemently refuses to consent that any sum shall be set apart as a provision for her so-called wife . | Jackson's Oxford Journal 21 April | 1,838 |
At his request, I was the husband and he was the wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1549– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "In (esp. same-sex) relationships, other than marriage, in which the two partners are regarded as occupying roles analogous to those in a traditional mixed-sex marriage: the person assuming the role regarded as more stereotypically feminine, i.e. as being equivalent to that ... | 1,549 | null | 2010 | At his request, I was the husband and he was the wife . | M. Kramer in S. Habib, Islam & Homosexuality vol. I. vii. 138 | 2,010 |
I hope beloved that in a few years you will come to me and be my love my wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1896– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "Used to denote either partner in a (generally long-term) relationship between two women."] | 1,896 | null | 1896 | I hope beloved that in a few years you will come to me and be my love my wife ! | A. W. Grimké in G. Beemyn, Queer Capital (2015) ii. 72 | 1,896 |
Her little Girl, whose Eyes were all over blubbered at the melancholy News she heard of Jones, who used to call her his little Wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1592–1822 | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "\u2020\u00a0Used as a term of affection for a close female friend (esp. of a man). Obsolete ."] | 1,592 | 1,822 | 1749 | Her little Girl, whose Eyes were all over blubbered at the melancholy News she heard of Jones, who used to call her his little Wife . | H. Fielding , Tom Jones vol. VI. xvii. ii. 97 | 1,749 |
Near Paris, where the rapid Sein do's glide, In a sub urban Villa did reside A single man; his Garden was his Wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1616– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "Something likened to a wife in some way, esp. in being a constant companion. Cf. Dutch wife n. . Now rare ."] | 1,616 | null | 1672 | Near Paris, where the rapid Sein do's glide, In a sub urban Villa did reside A single man; his Garden was his Wife . | J. Evelyn , translation of R. Rapin, Of Gardens 50 | 1,672 |
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