aroint

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. avaunt; begone; go away; leave! archaic,imperative,transitive
    — And aroynt thee Witch, aroynt thee.
  2. to dispel; to send away. archaic
    — Whiskered cats arointed flee, Sturdy stoppers keep from thee Cologne distillations.

词形变化

aroints present,singular,third-person arointing participle,present arointed participle,past arointed past

词源

Uncertain, and subject to various attempts to connect it to multiple Germanic and Romance etymons; first attested in the First Folio, and sometimes posited to be an error for anoint, referring to a witch’s supposed flight-facilitating ointment, and thus being a commandment for her to anele herself and fly away; also said to be taken from the phrase rowan tree, thought to dispel witches.
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