“divinail”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

divinail

释义

† ˈdivinail Obs.
Also 4–5 de-, dy-, -al(e, -aile, -aille, -ayle, deuenayle.
[a. OF. de-, divinail, -al masc., and devinaille, -nalle, -gnaille fem. (Godef.) a thing divined, a conjecture, prediction, divination, repr. L. types *dīvīnāle sing., *dīvīnālia pl., of dīvīnālis: see next and -al¹ 4, 5.]
1. Divining, soothsaying, divination.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋531 Hem þat bilieuen in diuynailes [v. rr. dyuynayles, -ales, -alis, divynailles, deuenayles] as by flight or by noyse of briddes or of beestes.c1430Lydg. Bochas ii. xiii. (1554) 51 b, Her clerkes in theyr diuinayle Tolde it was token of seruage and trauayle.1484Caxton Chivalry 87 The deuynaylles of them that by the flyght of byrdes deuynen.
2. Something to be divined, a riddle.
c1430Lydg. Bochas i. ix. (1544) 18 a, The serpent him..would assaile With a problem..Called of some men an uncouthe deuinaile.c1430― Thebes i. (R.), To slea all tho..that did faile, To expoune, his misty deuinale.1483Caxton G. de la Tour G ij b, Sayeng that they myȝt not arede a certayne deuynal.

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