单词 | from before |
释义 | > as lemmasfrom before a. from before: (a) from the front or anterior part; (b) from an earlier period, from the time before something. ΚΠ a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 109 Oon ioynture, þe which þat strecchiþ from bifore to bihynde to þe lenkþe of þe heed. 1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis (Rev. x. 1) 33 Repeated from before; vnto the end of the chapter. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Parey Wks. (1649) x. i. 263 From before to behind, and the contrary, as when the forehead is smitten, the nose cleft. 1691 E. Pococke Comm. Joel ii, in Theol. Wks. (1750) I. 316/2 The word call here appears to include and import more than a promiscuous calling, viz. election from before, and such a calling in due time. 1726 N. B. Philippos Farrier's & Horseman's Dict. 84/2 The longest of them runs length ways from before to the Noll, where it is divided into some Branches. 1796 European Mag. & London Rev. Apr. 245/1 His corpse,..covered with wounds, all received from before, and close to the point of attack, clearly declared that this resolute Mogul..possessed the genuine spirit of a soldier. 1855 R. Owen Teeth 302 Counting the molars from before backwards. 1898 H. M. Field Life D. D. Field xvi. 233 Looking then at the question from before and after, Mr. Field reasoned that the proper moment to stop a war was before it was begun. 1928 E. A. Dawes tr. A. Comnena Alexiad (1967) v. 123 The Emperor for his part stood like an unshaken tower with darts thrown at him from before and behind. 2011 H. Beach Apocalypse Prelude xiii. 64 The bar staff were different from before, with two barmaids and six waiters/waitresses going around the now almost all full tables. from before (a) Followed by a preposition indicating an initial point in space or time, as in from among, from after, from before, from beyond, from over, from under, etc.See also from off. ΚΠ OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 25 Fram Iudea & fram begeondan Iordanen. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 14 Makieð..a large creoiz wið þe þume & wið þe twa fingres. from buue þe forheaued dun to þe breoste. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2327 Þe Amyral þat was so riche ys falle doun fram an heȝ. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Luke xxiv. 49 Til that ȝe be clothid with vertu from an hiȝ [E.V. c1384 Douce 369(2) fro an hiȝ]. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xx. 575 The garden & wilde Purcelayne, do flower from after the moneth of June, vntill September. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. i. 44 Shee culd it from among the rest. View more context for this quotation 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 20 in Justa Edouardo King The sacred well That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring. 1654 View Regulation Chancery 49 The Custos brevium in the Court of Common-Pleas which hath been an office usually granted by Letters-Patent from before the Reign of Edw. I. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1691 His fiery vertue rouz'd From under ashes into sudden flame. View more context for this quotation 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 170. ⁋4 I thought it better to remove a studious Countenance from among busy ones. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 134 That they might feast on fresh Meat from on Shore, as we did with their Salt Meat from on Board. 1786 H. Mackenzie Lounger No. 56 (1787) II. 197 I see my grandmother..looking at me from under her spectacles. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. i. 15 A..body of horsemen..dashed from amidst the trees. 1943 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 764/1 All the folks from around here was there. 1985 Cambr. Encycl. Life Sci. xiii. 319/1 Similar fossils from rocks from after the Precambrian era can sometimes be assigned to ornamented eukaryotic algae. 2006 F. Kiernan & G. Hemphill Still Game: Scripts I. i. 11 From over the fence we hear a rumpus. < as lemmas |
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