单词 | corner-meeting |
释义 | > as lemmascorner-meeting b. figurative. (Chiefly with meaning ‘done in a corner’: see 6), as corner-contract, corner-meeting, etc. ΚΠ 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. ii. 40 These corner contracts, without consent of parents. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ff5 Casting a kinde of corner looke vpon him. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 40 They had their secret corner-meetings. 1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) ii. 44 Drag this corner-seeking..vice into the open view. 1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. Ep. 165 With corner-whisperings from house to house. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 134 Our corner-miching priests. < as lemmas |
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