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"text": "O he is attended vpon moſt Babilonically, and Xerxes ſo ouercloyd not the Helleſpont with his foyſtes, gallies, and brigandines, as he mantleth the narrow ſeas with his retinue, being not much behinde in the checkroule of his Ianiſſaries and contributories, with Eagle-ſoaring Bullingbrooke, that at his remouing of houſhold into baniſhment (as father Froyſard threapes vs downe) was accompanied with 40000, men wemen and children weeping, from London to the landes end at Douer.",
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"ref": "1664, John Fullartoun, The Turtle-Dove:",
"text": "Come then, threap kindnesse yet apon thy King, Tell him that in the prison thou wilt sing His praises",
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"ref": "1761, John Willison, Sacramental meditations and advices, page 173:",
"text": "Take faith with you, and the stronger it is, it will be the more agreeable present to Christ; put a firm trust and confidence in his blood and bowels, bode and threap kindness on him",
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"ref": "1766, John Brown, An Exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, page 565:",
"text": "It is useful sometimes to threap good upon people, providing it be done soberly, prudently, and not in a flattering way, speaking nothing but truth, and withal, doing is seasonably, when the doing thereof will not foster pride nor conceit in people, but will make way, and open a door for receiving the wholesome admonitions and profitable directionsl as the apsotle doth here threap good upon these Romans, to the end his freedom in speaking to them might be the better welcomed, and less exception might be made against it: And I myself am persuaded of you, &c.",
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"ref": "1800, Allan Ramsay, The Poems of Allan Ramsay - Volume 1, page 262:",
"text": "While the young swankies on the green Took round a merry tirle: Meg Wallet wi' her pinky een Gart Lawrie's heart-strings dirle; And fouk wad threap, that she did green For what wad atar her skirle and skreigh some day.",
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"ref": "1733, George Logan, The Humble and Modest Inquiry Concerning the Right and Power of Electing and Calling Ministers to vacant Chruches, Finished:",
"text": "Thus the Power of Truth has so great Influence upon you, as to make you decline the Debate, and to yield the Argument to me, and yet your inveterate Prejudices still prevail, and have the Mastery over you, to threap what you cannot defend, but will have others do it for you, who are no way interested;",
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"ref": "1785, Robert Burns, Epistle To William Simson Schoolmaster, Ochiltree:",
"text": "Some herds, weel learn'd upo' the beuk, / Wad threap auld folk the thing misteuk;",
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"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/iːp",
"Rhymes:English/iːp/1 syllable"
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{
"word": "threaper"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "threpen",
"t": "to scold"
},
"expansion": "Middle English threpen (“to scold”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "þrēapian",
"t": "to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame"
},
"expansion": "Old English þrēapian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*þraupōn"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*þraupōną",
"t": "to punish"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *þraupōną (“to punish”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*þrawō",
"t": "torment, punishment"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*þrawjaną",
"t": "to torment, injure, exhaust"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *þrawjaną (“to torment, injure, exhaust”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*trōw-",
"t": "to beat, wound, kill, torment"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "þrēagan",
"t": "to rebuke, punish, chastise"
},
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"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English threpen (“to scold”), from Old English þrēapian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *þraupōn, from Proto-Germanic *þraupōną (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawjaną (“to torment, injure, exhaust”), from Proto-Indo-European *trōw- (“to beat, wound, kill, torment”). Akin to Old English þrēagan (“to rebuke, punish, chastise”), þrēa (“correction, punishment”), þrōwian (“to suffer”). More at throe.",
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{
"form": "threaps",
"tags": [
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"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "threaped",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "threaped",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "threapt",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "threapt",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1778, Nicholas Wilkinson, The Trial at Large of Nicholas Wilkinson:",
"text": "I told them I went to seek him, but they threaped me and said I did not.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To contradict."
],
"links": [
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"contradict",
"contradict"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To contradict."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 32:",
"text": "O he is attended vpon moſt Babilonically, and Xerxes ſo ouercloyd not the Helleſpont with his foyſtes, gallies, and brigandines, as he mantleth the narrow ſeas with his retinue, being not much behinde in the checkroule of his Ianiſſaries and contributories, with Eagle-ſoaring Bullingbrooke, that at his remouing of houſhold into baniſhment (as father Froyſard threapes vs downe) was accompanied with 40000, men wemen and children weeping, from London to the landes end at Douer.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To denounce."
],
"links": [
[
"denounce",
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]
],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To cry out; complain; contend."
],
"links": [
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"cry out",
"cry out"
],
[
"complain",
"complain"
],
[
"contend",
"contend"
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],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"ref": "a. 1529, John Skelton, \"The Old Cloak\", in Thomas Percy (editor), Percy's Relics, published 1765",
"text": "It's not for a man with a woman to threap."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke"
],
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"argue",
"argue"
],
[
"bicker",
"bicker"
],
[
"scold",
"scold"
],
[
"rebuke",
"rebuke"
]
],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1664, John Fullartoun, The Turtle-Dove:",
"text": "Come then, threap kindnesse yet apon thy King, Tell him that in the prison thou wilt sing His praises",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1761, John Willison, Sacramental meditations and advices, page 173:",
"text": "Take faith with you, and the stronger it is, it will be the more agreeable present to Christ; put a firm trust and confidence in his blood and bowels, bode and threap kindness on him",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1766, John Brown, An Exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, page 565:",
"text": "It is useful sometimes to threap good upon people, providing it be done soberly, prudently, and not in a flattering way, speaking nothing but truth, and withal, doing is seasonably, when the doing thereof will not foster pride nor conceit in people, but will make way, and open a door for receiving the wholesome admonitions and profitable directionsl as the apsotle doth here threap good upon these Romans, to the end his freedom in speaking to them might be the better welcomed, and less exception might be made against it: And I myself am persuaded of you, &c.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1800, Allan Ramsay, The Poems of Allan Ramsay - Volume 1, page 262:",
"text": "While the young swankies on the green Took round a merry tirle: Meg Wallet wi' her pinky een Gart Lawrie's heart-strings dirle; And fouk wad threap, that she did green For what wad atar her skirle and skreigh some day.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To affirm; to express with conviction."
],
"links": [
[
"affirm",
"affirm"
]
],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1677, Richard Gilpin, Daemonologia Sacra:",
"text": "Thus are men threaped out of their own persuasions.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cozen or cheat."
],
"links": [
[
"cozen",
"cozen"
],
[
"cheat",
"cheat"
]
],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He threaped me down that it was so.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1727, Caleb Threlkeld, Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum Alphabetice Dispositarum, page 110:",
"text": "I eat some of it so prepared in an English Man's House in this City, and who would threap me down, that it was Sampire, and so named in his Country of Lincolnshire.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1733, George Logan, The Humble and Modest Inquiry Concerning the Right and Power of Electing and Calling Ministers to vacant Chruches, Finished:",
"text": "Thus the Power of Truth has so great Influence upon you, as to make you decline the Debate, and to yield the Argument to me, and yet your inveterate Prejudices still prevail, and have the Mastery over you, to threap what you cannot defend, but will have others do it for you, who are no way interested;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1785, Robert Burns, Epistle To William Simson Schoolmaster, Ochiltree:",
"text": "Some herds, weel learn'd upo' the beuk, / Wad threap auld folk the thing misteuk;",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on)."
],
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[
"obstinately",
"obstinately"
],
[
"denial",
"denial"
],
[
"contradiction",
"contradiction"
],
[
"insist",
"insist"
]
],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
}
],
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{
"rhymes": "-iːp"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "threep"
},
{
"word": "threip"
},
{
"word": "threpe"
},
{
"word": "threeap"
},
{
"word": "thrape"
},
{
"word": "threp"
},
{
"word": "traep"
},
{
"word": "traip"
},
{
"word": "trep"
},
{
"word": "trape"
}
],
"word": "threap"
}
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