forlongとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

forlong (三人称単数 現在形 forlongs, 現在分詞 forlonging, 過去形および過去分詞形 forlonged)

1. To fill with longing.
   • 2005, Swede Hastings, Creeping Shadows:

     Now certain shadows followed me. Forlonged memories move round From visions inside my head I see [...]

   • 2009, Carol Gilligan, Kyra:

     And then after, forlonged, forlonging, longing without end. I looked at his hands, his fingers long, elegant, the hands of a conductor.

派生語

• forlonging

名詞

forlong (複数形 forlongs)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of furlong
   • 1857, Robert Conger Pell, Milledulcia:

     Again, Oh read ouer D. John Bridges, for it is a worthy work, is: Printed oner sea, in Europe, within two forlongs of a Bouncing Priest, at the Cost and Charges of Martin Marprelate, Gent, 1589.

   • 1881, Plutarchus, Plutarch's Lives, tr., with notes and a mem. by J. and W. Langhorne:

     Besides, he divided all the road into miles, of near eight forlongs each, and set up pillars of stone to mark the divisions.

   • 1971, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of the Close Rolls ...: Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume 44, page 295:

     A parcel of land in 'Wodeforlonge' containing 1 acre lying in the upper forlong of that field between land of the prioress called 'Candalescroftes' sometime of Robert Adelm* and land sometime of William Barnevyle and extending lengthwise from land called the 'Menecroft' to land of said William towards Lyddynges water.