| 单词 | fast-holding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfast-holding a. In senses A. 1 – A. 3, with the sense ‘firmly, closely, or securely —’, as in fast-cleaving, fast-holding, fast-standing, etc.In early use frequently in figurative contexts. With quot. a1425, cf. fast adj. 6a. ΚΠ a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) l. 1321 (MED) A liberal man was ane of þa, þe toþer was hard and fast haldand. 1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. G.iiiv Possessed alreadye wt the fast holdyng bryers of vices. 1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded iii. ix. 181 Such clinging tares, fast cliuing foxes. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 266 The Spyder..new strengthneth them afresh..with another new glutinosity, or fast-bynding clamminesse. 1647 J. Hare St. Edwards Ghost 18 Yet could our name thereby take no true lustre, till it be cleared of this fast-sticking blemish. 1648 S. Rutherford Surv. Spirituall Antichrist xxix. 247 An everlasting fast standing Jerusalem. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xxv. 382 There still remains with us a fast-cleaving and mysterious evil. 2012 R. Ogilvie Cast Evil Eye ix. 43 Manny, however, stuck to Courtney like a tube of fast sticking glue. < as lemmas |
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