| 单词 |
to-cleave |
| 释义 |
† to-cleave, v. Obs.
Forms: see cleave v.1
[OE. tocléofan, f. to-2 + cléofan, cleave v.1 So OS. teklioƀan, OHG. zi-, zeklioban.]
1. trans. To cleave asunder; to split open; to divide or separate into two parts.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxiv. §11 ᵹif þu þonne ænne stan toclifst, ne wyrð he næfre ᵹegadrod swa he ær wæs. c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xxv. 55 Þa nytenu sind clæne þe to-cleofað heora clawa. c1200Ormin 14798 Drihhtin þær toclæf þe sæ. a1375Joseph Arim. 516 Þer weoren..harde scheldes to-clouen. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 141 For þe heihe holigoste heuene shal to-cleue.
2. intr. To split or fall asunder.
c1205Lay. 1920 Corineus..hine fusde mid mæine..Þat his ban to-cluuen. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 246 (MS. B.) The erthe..Quaked..and al to-clief þe roche. 1390Gower Conf. III. 296 The Schip toclef upon a roche. c1430Hymns Virg. 41 His herte to-cloue, and he for-bleed. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xlvi. 3 The mountaines to clive from their rotes. |
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