scathe

scathenoun詞源 1/skeɪð/

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  archaicdialectalDamage, harm, hurt, injury.

  • Therefore great Lords bee as your titles vvitnes, / Imperious, and impatient of your vvrongs, / And vvherein Rome hath done you any ſkath, / Let him make treable ſatisfaction.
  • [S]trong ale and noble cheere / t'aſſwage breeme winters ſcathes.
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  archaicdialectalSomeone who, or something which, causes harm; an injurer.

  • The pride I trampled is now my scathe, / For it tramples me again.
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  archaicobsoletedialectalAn injury or loss for which compensation is sought in a lawsuit; damage; also, expenses incurred by a claimant; costs.

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  archaicdialectalSomething to be mourned or regretted.

  • They deemed it little scathe indeed / That her coarse homespun ragged weed / Fell off from her round arms and lithe / Laid on the door-post, that a withe / Of willows was her only belt; / And each as he gazed at her felt / As some gift had been given him.

scatheverb詞源 2/skeɪð/

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  archaicdialectalTo harm or injure (someone or something) physically.

  • This trick may chance to ſcath you I knovv vvhat, / You muſt contrarie me, […]
  • Thir Glory witherd. As when Heavens Fire / Hath ſcath'd the Forreſt Oaks, or Mountain Pines, / With ſinged top their ſtately growth though bare / Stands on the blaſted Heath.
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  archaicobsoletedialectalTo harm or injure (someone or something) physically.

  • VVell goe too vvild oates, ſpend thrift, prodigall, / Ile croſſe thy name quite from my reckoning booke: / For theſe accounts, faith it ſhall skathe thee ſomevvhat, / I vvill not ſay vvhat ſomevvhat it ſhall be.
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  archaicdialectalliteraryTo harm, injure, or destroy (someone or something) by fire, lightning, or some other heat source; to blast; to scorch; to wither.

  • The shout was hushed on lake and fell, / The Monk resumed his muttered spell. / Dismal and low its accents came, / The while he scathed the Cross with flame; […]
  • Hoary, yet haughty, frowns the oak, / Its boughs by weight of ages broke; / And towers erect, in sable spire, / The pine-tree scathed by lightning fire; […]
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  archaicdialectalTo severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc.

  • There are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul—that penetrate to the vital seat of happiness—and blast it, never again to put forth bud or blossom.
  • For the fire-baptised soul, long so scathed and thunder-riven, here feels its own Freedom, which feeling is its Baphometic Baptism: […]