| 单词 |
spete |
| 释义 |
▪ I. † spete, v. Obs.
Forms: inf. 1 spætan, 3 speten, 4–5 spete. pa. tense 1 spætte, 2–5 spette (4 spetide); 3–4 spatte, 4 spat.
[OE. spǽtan, f. the stem *spāt-: cf. spattle n.1 and v.1 The inf. and pres. forms disappeared in the 15th cent., and the pa. tense and pple. came to be associated with spit v.1]
To spit; to expectorate: a. intr.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark x. 34 Hi him on spætað [Hatton spæteð]. Ibid. John ix. 6 Þa spætte [Hatton spette] he on þa eorþan. a1225Ancr. R. 240 Þonne spet heo & schekeð þet heaued. a1250Owl & Night. 39 Me luste bet speten þane singe Of þine fule howelynge. c1275Passion our Lord 272 in O.E. Misc., Þe Gywes..Blyndfellede and spatten him on. c1300Leben Jesu (Horstm. 1873) 29 He..spatte a luyte on is fingur. 13..K. Alis. 979 Tho thou spettest in my visage. 1382Wyclif Mark vii. 33 He..spetinge towchide his tunge. 14..in Wr.-Wülcker 610 Screo, to spete.
b. trans.
a1225Ancr. R. 82 Þe þet swuch fulðe speteð ut [etc.]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxxv. (Bodl. MS.), As it fareþ in ham þat spetynne bloode and quyture. c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483) v. x. 101 He smote hym in the brest that he spette blood many dayes after.
Hence † ˈspeting vbl. n. Obs.
1388Wyclif Lev. xv. 8 If sich a man castith out spetyng on hym. a1400Stockholm Med. MS. i. 302 in Anglia XVIII. 302 It schal drywyn owte all þe peyne Withowte gret spetynge or oþer peyne.
▪ II. spete
obs. form of spit n.1 and v.2 |
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