sprightly

suomi-englanti sanakirja

sprightly englannista suomeksi

1. vireä, pirteä

sprightly englanniksi

1. Animated, gay{{, or vivacious; lively, spirited.

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2. (quote-book)?&93;|chapter=Poems. Planet''arum'' Energia.|editor=J. M. Cowper|title=The Times’ Whistle: Or A Newe Daunce of Seven Satires, and Other Poems:(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Published for the (w), by Trübner|Nicholas Trübner & Co.,(nb...)|year=c. 1614–1616|year_published=1871|section=leaf 40|page=114|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_RDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA114|lines=13–14|oclc=1170431568|passage=Next vnto lumpish Saturn, sprightlie Iove / Moves in his orbe.

3. (RQ:Defoe Reformation) / ’Tis ''Love and Honour'' muſt enrich our Verſe, / The Modern Terms, ''our VVhoring to rehearſe''. / The ſprightly part attends the ''God of VVine'', / The Drunken Stile ''muſt blaze'' in every Line.

4. (quote-book) Daniel Prince; sold by (publishers)|John Rivington,(nb...); Payne|Thomas Payne,(nb...); and Dodsley|James Dodsley,(nb...); Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: T. and J. Merrill|year=1767|section=stanza LIV|page=70|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=W6hfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA70|oclc=1102752390|passage=By the Path-way green, / A ſprightlie Troupe ſtill onward heedleſſe ſped, / In Chace of Butterflies alert and keen; / Honours, and Wealth, and Powre, their Butterflies I ween.

5. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Andrew Miller,(nb...)|year=a. 1764|year_published=1800|volume=VII|page=137|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=K0YgAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA137|column=1|oclc=520315870|passage=The Bard now tries a ſprightlier ſound, / When all the feather'd race around / Perceive the varied ſtrains; / The ſoaring lark the note purſues; / The timorous dove around him cooes, / And Philomel complains.

6. Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step.

7. (quote-book) Anthony Stephens,(nb...)|year=1685|section=stanza VI|page=77|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pl8CAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA77|oclc=|passage=Shall our example ſloth create, / And make our Sons degenerate? / Our ſprightly youth uſeleſs in War become, / And ſleep in peace and ſlavery at home.

8. (quote-book)|seriesvolume=XVII, number 1|location=London|publisher=(...) For the (w), by T. Richards,(nb...)|year=1845|page=33|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=PYpKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA33|lines=79–80|oclc=1008201590|passage=This youth was ance a sprightlie boy / As ever lived in Linne.

9. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Saunders, Otley, and Co.(nb...)|year=1861|page=197|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nT0BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA197|oclc=1152831244|passage=Methinkes it was aboutt this Date that a ſore Afflicſhon befelle my deare and formerlie merrie Siſter, the Ladye ''Herbert'', whom my Reder will beſte recollecte as my Ladye Mother's beſte beloved Childe, the happie, ſprightlie ''Katie'' of oure School-den Daies.|footer=(small)

10. Especially of an older person: energetic and in good health; spry.

11. Of or relating to a sprite; ghostly, spectral.

12. (RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline) As I ſlept, me thought / Great (mythology)|Iupiter vpon his Eagle back'd / Appear'd to me, with other ſprightly ſhewes / Of mine owne Kindred.

13. In a lively and vigorous way; sprightlily.