单词 | even to |
释义 | > as lemmaseven to (or unto) 6. Fully, completely; quite; all the way to, right to. Formerly often preceding numerals; in later use chiefly in even to (or unto), in which use some suggestion of sense A. 8 is often present. Now archaic. ΚΠ eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xli. 301 Crisð ure aliesend hiene selfne geeaðmedde emne oð ðone deað. c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 26 (MED) Þe feond, þe wende to fordo me, tofeol efne atwa. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6948 He heom wes leof æfne al-swa heore lif. ?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) (2002) l. 939 He reignede her Euene fiue & þritti ȝer. c1440 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 314 (MED) What vessale sa it be þat es euyne full. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 248 (MED) The lion..Ranne to the false Emperes and Ravid hir evin to the bone. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke ii. f. lxxv The shepherds sayd won to another: let vs go even vnto Bethleem, and se this thynge thatt is hapened. 1546 Wycklyffes Wycket sig. A.ii In greate sufferaunce of persecusyon euen to the death. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxvii. 5 That the net may bee euen to the midst of the Altar. View more context for this quotation 1646 F. Hawkins tr. Youths Behaviour (ed. 4) 5 Nor is it beseeming to stoope so low as even to crouching. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xlvi. 180 Carried at the mercy of the Sea even until Sun-set. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 586 His Magnetic beam..Shoots invisible vertue even to the deep. 1709 R. Steele & J. Swift Tatler No. 70 A large French Mongrel..when he grapples, bites even to the Marrow. 1829 S. J. Hale Sketches Amer. Char. 273 I felt chilled even to the heart. 1853 ‘Seraiah the Scribe’ Chron. Fire-eaters of Tribe of Mississippi xiv. 30/2 [He] hath been of the tribe of Mississippi, and from the provinces of the East, from his youth [even] until this time. 1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. ii. 30 The strutting tail flowed down even to the ground. 1918 E. S. Eells Tales of Giants from Brazil ix. 151 The prince was praised throughout the kingdom and there is talk of him even unto this very day. 1997 J. Walsh Forty Martyrs Eng. & Wales 4 Martyrdom..means bearing witness even unto death. < as lemmas |
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