单词 | hue and cry |
释义 | hue and cryn. 1. a. Law. Outcry calling for the pursuit of a felon, raised by the party aggrieved, by a constable, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] > outcry against thief hue and cryc1503 utas1600 1292 Year-bk. 20–21 Edw. I (Rolls) 339 Les presentors de la vyle de Hulle aveyt concele Hu e cry e sanck espandu. 1292 Britton i. vi. §4 Ou homme serra trové occys..ne heu ne cri ne avera levé.] c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxij/1 Ony persone..that wyll not helpe Constable sergeauntis and other officers..when hue and Crye is made. 1555 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. xxvii. 213 For keeping the statutes of hue and cry. c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 512 The finder sall raise the hoy and cry. 1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 29 Martin, wee are now following after thee with hue and crie, and are hard at thy heeles. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 312 He flies, And still lookes back for feare of Hu-on cries. 1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. Malcolm II in Regiam Majestatem c. 15 §1 [To be] followed, with huy and cry. 1668 London Gaz. No. 324/3 That Huy and Cry be immediately raised and pursued with diligence. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 454 He..flies beyond Persuit of Huon-cries. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 236 Six gentlemen upon the road..They raised the hue and cry:—‘Stop thief! stop thief!—a highwayman!’ 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. x. 153 But the old gentleman was not the only person who raised the hue-and-cry. b. A proclamation for the capture of a criminal or the finding of stolen goods. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > an announcement or proclamation > for criminal or stolen goods hue and cry1601 1601 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 256 Searchinge for suspected persons vpon huy and crye. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ Def. xxi. 180 If a hue and cry should issue for such persons as carry the marks of Diotrephes. 1685 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 147 Wm. Haigue Request ye Secretry that a hue and Cry from East Jersie..might have some force and authority to pass this Province..; the Secretary Indorsed it and Sealed it with ye Seal of ye Province. 1720 in C. Wordsworth Rutland Words (1891) at Hewing cry For a hewing cry, 2d. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 151 No Hue-and-Cry was published, no means taken for my re-apprehension. c. An official gazette in which particulars about offences committed, offenders ‘wanted’, etc. are published for the information of the authorities.In the English Police Gazette the phrase ceased to form part of the title on March 30, 1839, but continued to be so used thereafter in that of the Royal Irish Constabulary. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > official gazettes gazette1665 hue and cry1827 Birthday Gazette1869 1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxx, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 103 Men literally without a name, except it be recorded in the Hue and Cry. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xv. 244 Deeply absorbed in the interesting pages of the Hue-and-Cry. 1898 (title) The Police Gazette, or Hue-and-Cry. Published (by authority) for Ireland on every Tuesday and Friday. 2. The pursuit of a felon with such outcry. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] > outcry against thief > pursuit with hue and cry1648 1648 J. Mayne Amorous Warre i. i. 2 A Hue and Crye of fourty thousand. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 368 The Heu and Cry was stopp'd, and the High Constable went back again. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. (1809) xxi. 293 An hue..and cry, hutesium et clamor, is the old common law process of pursuing, with horn and with voice, all felons. 3. generally. A clamour or shout of pursuit or assault; a cry of alarm or opposition; outcry. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > outcry or clamour reamOE ropeOE brack?c1200 utas1202 hootinga1225 berec1225 noise?c1225 ludea1275 cryc1275 gredingc1275 boastc1300 utasa1325 huec1330 outcrya1382 exclamation1382 ascry1393 spraya1400 clamourc1405 shoutingc1405 scry1419 rumourc1425 motion?a1439 bemec1440 harrowc1440 shout1487 songa1500 brunt1523 ditec1540 uproar1544 clamouring1548 outrage1548 hubbub1555 racket1565 succlamation1566 rear1567 outcrying1569 bellowing1579 brawl1581 hue and cry1584 exclaiming1585 exclaim1587 sanctus1594 hubbaboo1596 oyez1597 conclamation1627 sputter1673 rout1684 dirduma1693 hallalloo1737 yelloching1773 pillaloo1785 whillaloo1790 vocitation1819 blue murder1828 blaring1837 shilloo1842 shillooing1845 pillalooing1847 shriek1929 yammering1937 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 152 Set vpon them with great hew and crie. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. x. §4. 105 Whom the Heathens haue pursued with such an Hue-and-Crie for most damnable Atheists. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 132 Prosecuted by Apparitions, and pursued by Hue and Crys from the other World. 1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 4 (note) The public took up the hue and cry conscientiously enough. 1871 S. Smiles Character v. 126 When the ‘Novum Organon’ appeared, a hue-and-cry was raised against it. Derivatives hue-and-cry v. to raise the hue and cry, make an outcry; to pursue with hue and cry. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > outcry or clamour galstrec1230 huea1250 galec1386 noisea1393 clamourc1400 brawl1447 yammer1513 to noise it1663 hue-and-crya1734 beclamour1832 chi-hike1874 hullabaloo1936 a1734 R. North Examen (1740) 233 We may hue and cry all over his Book, and hear no Tidings of them. 1830 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 432/1 The Hedge Hog, hue-and-cried, like a felon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1503 |
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