See handsel in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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],
[
"ceremony",
"ceremony"
],
[
"break in",
"break in"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1647, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Worse Times:",
"text": "Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Michael Brodsky, ***, Four Walls Eight Windows, →ISBN, page 38:",
"text": "[…]the success of the one did not handsel usurpation[…]of the other's.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhænd.səl/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhæn.səl/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-handsel.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-handsel.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-handsel.wav.mp3",
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ændsəl"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ænsəl"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "handsell"
},
{
"word": "hansel"
}
],
"word": "handsel"
}
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