| 单词 | give the onset |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give (the) onset a. An attack or onslaught, esp. a military attack; an assault. †to give (the) onset: to begin an attack, to make an attack (obsolete). Frequently with the. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] assault1297 venuea1330 scoura1400 wassailc1400 frayc1430 brunta1450 sault1510 onseta1522 attemptate1524 onsetting1541 breach1578 dint1579 objectiona1586 invasion1591 extent1594 grassation1610 attack1655 run1751 wrack1863 mayhem1870 serve1967 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. vii. 63 Mony debatis and onsettis haue we done. 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. (1898) II. 85 After the oncet is geven, the worste is paste. 1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 628, in Wks. (1931) I. 162 Upon the Scottis thay maid onset. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. iii. 253 That inuincible rage, and furious onset, which goes current with the barbarous for true valour. 1669 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 170 Upone thair just apprehensioune of some outragious onsett in defence of thair prissoner. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 80 This destroying of the outward garniture of the earth is but the first onset. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 949 He..thrice three Heroes at each Onset slew. 1767 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 231 The forceful onset had contus'd his brain. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. viii. 616 At their ships Give them brisk onset. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. ix. 168 Prince John with his truncheon signed to the trumpets to sound the onset. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 279 These troops had to bear the first brunt of the onset. 1892 G. Meredith Poems 77 He entreats..Compassion..For his fierce bugler horning onset. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) ii. 140 Beneath that boyish exterior was..the male hardness, the callousness that met the brunt and withstood the shock of onset. 1930 W. S. Churchill My Early Life xiv. 196 We young men who lay down to sleep that night within three miles of 60,000 well-armed fanatical Dervishes, expecting every moment their violent onset or onrush. 1993 G. Williams Renewal & Reformation ii. 49 He told with wry, mocking humour how, at the onset of the enemy, he and his fellows fled precipitately. to give the onset a. The beginning of some (esp. unpleasant) situation, condition, or state, etc.; a commencement, a start. †to give the onset: to make a beginning, to start (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > (a) starting operation onset1561 start1589 outsettinga1698 offset1791 startup1892 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] ordeOE thresholdeOE frumthc950 anginOE frumeOE worthOE beginninga1225 springc1225 springc1225 commencementc1250 ginninga1300 comsingc1325 entryc1330 aginning1340 alphac1384 incomea1400 formec1400 ingressc1420 birtha1425 principlea1449 comsementa1450 resultancec1450 inition1463 inceptiona1483 entering1526 originala1529 inchoation1530 opening1531 starting1541 principium1550 entrance1553 onset1561 rise1589 begin1590 ingate1591 overture1595 budding1601 initiationa1607 starting off1616 dawninga1631 dawn1633 impriminga1639 start1644 fall1647 initial1656 outset1664 outsettinga1698 going off1714 offsetting1782 offset1791 commence1794 aurora1806 incipiency1817 set-out1821 set-in1826 throw-off1828 go-off1830 outstart1844 start1857 incipience1864 oncome1865 kick-off1875 off-go1886 off1896 get-go1960 lift-off1967 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. B I..must giue the onsett in oure pastimes this night. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 125 There is surely no greater Wisedome, then well to time the Beginnings, and Onsets of Things. 1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. iii. 46 They had made a fair onset in Christianity,..they were forward in their way. 1775 D. Garrick Let. 15 Nov. (1963) III. 1047 Let me desire You to give me the earliest Notice when you & Mrs Siddons can be here, & what part or parts she Would rather chuse for her Onset. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 698 It may be employed at the very onset of the fever, during the presence of the rigors. 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xxi. 392 She kissed her a dozen times at the first onset, and called her dear heart. 1890 Proc. Royal Soc. 48 370 At the onset of germination the oil gradually disappears. 1922 W. Gerhardi Futility iii. vii. 182 It grew markedly colder, and one felt the onset of winter. 1951 Jrnl. Dental Res. 30 380 Onset of use of fluorinated waters has to occur within the first six years of life in order to produce an appreciable protection against caries. 1981 R. N. Hardy Endocrine Physiol. iv. 36 This..shows that the islets are slow to respond both to onset and offset of stimulation for some time after birth. 2001 Times 24 Apr. ii. 14/3 For many once active men, a sports injury or the onset of middle age can lead suddenly to a couch-potato existence. < as lemmas |
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