单词 | good stay |
释义 | > as lemmasgood (quiet, etc.) stay ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [noun] > permanent state or condition stay1536 fixedness1647 fixity1791 stability1855 stationarity1901 1536 in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS I. 311 Then they to-gether xuld, or this tyme, a brought Inglond in-to a better stey then it is now. 1542 N. Vyllagon Lamentable & Piteous Treat. in Harleian Misc. (1808) I. 238 All thynges beynge in good ordre and staye. 1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre i. civ. sig. F iij My counsayl is, to set all thynges in quyet staye, and brynge them [soldiers at variance] agayne to concorde. ?1553 Respublica (1952) iii. iii. 26 Ye knowe it is no smalle weorke from so greate decaie..to sett all in good staighe. 1566 Chambrelayne in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. 489 Where he, with his Father and Mother,..had lately repaired unto him; and were in some good Stay. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 980/1 Moreouer..the worlde now was at an other stay, then when the beleuers were all of one harte and soule. 1570 G. Buchanan Chamæleon in Vernac. Writings (1892) 49 Be ye diligence and wisdom of ye regent the cuntre wes brocht to sum stay. 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle i. i. sig. Aiiv Aske them what they ayle, or who brought them in this staye? a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. G Hath she not promised to chaunge..the state of a Curtizan into the staie of a matron. a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 90 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) The State is at an euill stay, where more then one the Scepter sway. < as lemmas |
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