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形容詞

conynger

1. (obsolete) More cunning.
   • 1720, Desiderius Erasmus, Desiderii Erasmi ... Explicatio in Symbolum Apostolorum & Decalogum:

     If ony man being unlettred, wold bable and strive agaynst suche a philosopher, as was Aristotele or Pythagoras, or if there have ben ony other conynger than either of them both, whan he did dispute de materia prima, of the principles and causes of thinges, de infinito, or of the largenes, the movynge: and the vertue of the hevenly fperes, and wolde dowte of every thyng, that hymfelfe could not by his one witte attayne unto, and perceyve : shold he not be called an arrogante and madde foole?

   • 1866, A Merye Enterlude Entitled Respublica, Made in the Years of Our Lord 1553:

     Madam, ere I had taught these merchauntes enie while, Thei were conynger then I all men to beeguile ; And Veritee fawe myne were small purses and baggs, Tottering loose abought me like windshaken rags, But he that shoulde have bagged that Insolence dyd winne, Muste have made a poke to putt five or six shiers in ; He muste have made wide sacks for castells, townes, and woodes: The canvesse to make them of were woorth ten tymes my goodes.

   • 1981, Karl Heinz Göller, The Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Reassessment of the Poem, ISBN 085991075X, page 109:

     The pridde braunche of pride is arrogaunce or presumption, that is overboldenesse, that is whan a man weneth or tristeth more to hymself than he scholde: that is to seye. whan he weneth or troweth hymself be more worth than he is. or that he may more do than he may, or that he weneth hymself conynger than he is . . .