| 单词 | dying bed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdying bed 2. attributive. Of, belonging to, or relating to dying or death, as dying bed, dying command, dying day, dying declaration, dying fit, dying groan, dying prayer, dying shriek, dying time, dying tree, dying wish, dying word, etc. Cf. death n. Compounds 1a(a) (In some of these, the verbal noun has come to be identified with the participial.adj.) ΚΠ 1580 J. Stubbs in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 41 The glad tydings..half revived my wife almost in a dyeng bedd. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. I3 Dying feare through all her bodie spred. View more context for this quotation 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 90 To have a sight of her sometime before their dying-dayes. 1620 F. Quarles Jonah (1638) 45 Like pinioned pris'ners at the dying tree. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 70. ¶8 The Scotch Earl falls; and with his dying Words encourages his men to revenge his Death. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 328 The sobs and dying shrieks Of harmless Nature. 1872 Wharton's Law Lexicon (ed. 5) 273/2 Death-bed or Dying Declarations are constantly admitted in evidence. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket Prol. 19 A dead man's dying wish should be of weight. 1897 N.E.D. at Dying Mod. I shall remember it to my dying day. < as lemmas |
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