“sleightful”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

sleightful

释义

† ˈsleightful, a. Obs. rare.
Also 4 slyhtful, 5–6 Sc. slichtfull, etc.
[f. sleight n.¹]
Full of, characterized by, craft or artifice; crafty, cunning.
1380Lay Folks Catech. (Lamb. MS.) 1220 Þey be mysdoers, sotel, and slyhtful dysseyuers.1500–20Dunbar Poems lxvi. 7 The sweit abayd, the slichtfull trane, For to considder is ane pane.1613–6W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iv, Wilde beasts forsooke their dens on woody hils, And sleightful otters left the purling rils.
Hence † ˈsleightfully adv. Obs. rare.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxix. (Placidas) 241 Þe fals feynd..þat slichtfully begylyt þe.Ibid. xxxii. (Justin) 119 To dissawe men slichfully.

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