| 单词 | coign of vantage |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoign of vantage 1. In the Shakespearean phrase coign of vantage: a position (properly a projecting corner) affording facility for observation or action. (The currency of the phrase is apparently due to Sir Walter Scott.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > advantage over another > a position of advantage higher ground1583 vantage-ground1612 coign of vantagea1616 high ground1800 place, point (etc.) of vantage1805–6 vantage-coign1808 inside track1857 vantage-placea1861 vantage-pointa1861 pole position1888 vantage1908 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vi. 7 No Iutty frieze, Buttrice, nor Coigne of Vantage, but this Bird Hath made his pendant Bed. View more context for this quotation 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 132 As if the traders had occupied with nests..every buttress and coign of vantage, as the martlett did in Macbeth's Castle. 1831 W. Scott Quentin Durward (new ed.) II. iii. 43 From some such turret or balcony-window, or similar ‘coign of vantage’. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. xix. 205 A..swarming of the people at every coign of vantage. 1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 117 Terror on her vantage-coigne, Couchant supreme among the powers of air, Watches. coign of vantage c. In the phrases coign of vantage (see coign n. 1), place, point (etc.) of vantage. So also †dice of vantage. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > false or loaded stop-dice1540 bar1545 flat1545 gourd1545 barred dicec1555 bristle-dicec1555 fulhamc1555 graviersc1555 high manc1555 langretc1555 low manc1555 cheat1567 dice of vantage?1577 demy1591 forger1591 squarier1592 tallmen?1592 stop cater trey1605 demi-bar1606 downhill1664 high runner1670 low runner1670 doctor1688 tat1688 uphill1699 cut1711 loaded dice1771 dispatcher1798 dispatch1819 miss-out1928 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > advantage over another > a position of advantage higher ground1583 vantage-ground1612 coign of vantagea1616 high ground1800 place, point (etc.) of vantage1805–6 vantage-coign1808 inside track1857 vantage-placea1861 vantage-pointa1861 pole position1888 vantage1908 ?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 209 The preistes handes ith mustardpott the knave throwe at ninch Has some dise of vauntadge myne oth I durst take. 1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno xvi. 24 Naked champions..Are wont, intent, to watch their place of hold And vantage, ere in closer strife they meet. 1832 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 949/2 This adoption would have been applied..as a station of vantage for introducing him to the public favour. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) II. xvii. 347 It was unfortunate that the possession of Sluys had given Alexander such a point of vantage. < as lemmas |
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