| 单词 | god is my witness | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasGod is my witness  b.  In asseverative formulæ, in which a deity or a human being is invoked as one who is cognizant of a fact; as  God is my witness,  be my witness that... Most often in  to call or take to (†one's) witness: to call upon or appeal to as one's surety; to swear by. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > bear witness, testify			[verb (intransitive)]		 > call to witness to call or take to (one's) witness1297 to draw, take to warrantc1330 to call (also take) to recorda1393 to call to suretya1616 obtest1650 to call on ——1655 the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > 			[phrase]		 > with reference to God God wot?c1225 wot Christ?c1225 God is my witness1297 the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > 			[verb (transitive)]		 > swear an oath or take an oath > call upon or appeal to to call or take to (one's) witness1297 c1200    Vices & Virtues 73  				Ȝif he godd hafð to iwitnesse ðat he mid hlutter herte hit doð.]			 1297    R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6934  				Ich clupie god to witnesse..Þat ȝif ich of eni gulti am þat ich mote þoru þis fure Brenne..& perissy. c1386    G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 155  				The hooly writ take I to my witnesse That luxurie is in wyn and dronkenesse. a1400						 (a1325)						    Cursor Mundi 		(Vesp.)	 l. 17496  				Þat soth it es We tak drightin til vr wittnes. 14..    T. Hoccleve Min. Poems xvi. 10  				And so wolde I, god take I to witnesse! 1535    Bible 		(Coverdale)	 2 Esdras ii. 5  				I call vpon the for a wytnesse ouer the mother of these children, which wolde not kepe my couenaunt. 1548    Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xcix  				I take firste God to my witnesse, and afterwarde all the worlde, that I haue been at all tymes..true man. 1555    in  J. Strype Eccl. Memorials 		(1721)	 III. App. xlv. 133  				God is my Wytnes, that my Harte wyll not suffer me..to declare suche vyle Reportes. 1581    A. Hall tr.  Homer 10 Bks. Iliades  vii. 123  				To which (if so it needefull is) I Ioue to witnesse call. 1609    W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxiv. sig. H2v  				To this I witnes call the foles of time, Which die for goodnes, who haue liu'd for  crime.       View more context for this quotation a1616    W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor 		(1623)	  iv. ii. 121  				Heauen be my witnesse you  doe.       View more context for this quotation 1667    J. Milton Paradise Lost  i. 635  				For me, be witness all the Host of Heav'n, If counsels different, or danger shun'd By me, have lost our  hopes.       View more context for this quotation 1700    J. Dryden tr.  G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in  Fables 138  				That I have lov'd, I own; that still I love, I call to Witness all the Pow'rs above. 1833    H. Martineau Loom & Lugger  ii. i. 3  				He had so often emphatically taken his neighbours to witness that he was weaving. 1841    C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop  i. xxv. 232  				The tall boy..called those about him to witness that he had only shouted in a whisper. 1851    C. Kingsley Yeast xiii  				Though, God's my witness, there's no spite in me for my own sake. < as lemmas  | 
	
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