单词 | in press |
释义 | > as lemmasin press c. in press: in a crowd, crowded together; in the thick of a fight, etc. Now archaic and poetic. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [adverb] > in the thick of the fight in pressa1450 in the thick of1821 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > in/into one place, company, or mass [phrase] > crowded together in pressa1450 as thick as hops1590 a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 44v (MED) Þey were ytauȝt also to knowe wele her baners, þat þei lese her warde ne her banere þoruȝ medling in prees. 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. Hiiij Ye Scottes..without ony mercy slewe euery man of our men that abode furthest in prece. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xvi. 74 Here will desire throng in prease, though it praise not in parting. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 755 They ran in prease with their wiues children and best mooueables, striuing who should first get out. 1669 Hist. Sir Eger 37 Sir Grahame a knight of aventure, In preass think on your paramour. 1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad I. 27 Close files, in press, behind each other, stand, And stretch in martial phalanx o'er the land. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. V. xvii. 70 Riders of war-carts tumbled, rife, to grass, In press o'erthrown of flying men and chariots. in (also †at, †under) (the) press a. in (also †at, †under) (the) press: in the process of being printed or published. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > [adverb] > in process of printing in (also at, under) (the) press1535 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. Cvv One bothe to wryte yt and to correcke it in the presse. 1549 J. Leland Laboryouse Journey sig. E.iiij Part of the exemplaries..hath bene emprynted in Germany, and now be in the presses. 1612 Sir R. Naunton in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 113 The great work of his Chrysostome then under press. 1642 King Charles I in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1702) I. v. 534 A Declaration now in the Press. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. Introd. Pref. sig. a1 Papers..discovered to have been lost when some of the rest were to be at the Press. 1721 London Gaz. No. 5961/2 A Memorial of the Grocers..said to be under the Press. 1764 E. Burke Let. to J. Dodsley 9 Feb. in Westm. Gaz. 12 Jan. (1898) 2/1 I suppose that by this our work is in the press. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. p. viii After the volume has been at press upwards of a year. 1860 G. H. Lewes Let. 4 Jan. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) III. 243 It will be well now to begin announcing it in lists—if not the title at any rate the fact of a new novel being in the press. 1936 Isis 25 518 A translation of the Imitatio Christi was already in press in 1669 when it was forbidden by the General Court because of its Popishness. 1977 D. Aitkin Second Chair vi. 57 He has a book in press about social class. 2001 Ann. Bot. 88 1214/1 (In press) Aspects of a Goethean science: complexity and holism in science and art. < as lemmas |
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