单词 | in service |
释义 | > as lemmasin service (a) in service. extracted from servicen.1 (i) Engaged or employed as a servant, esp. a domestic servant. In early use also: so as to be so engaged or employed.In the 19th and early 20th centuries chiefly with reference to domestic service. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > in or into service [phrase] in servicec1300 of (a person's) retinuea1393 c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 1439 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 147 With luytel folk and luytel aise þare he dude bi-leue..his men he broȝte In seruise heore mete to wynne þere. c1330 Horn Child l. 644 in J. Hall King Horn (1901) 186 Icham comen to fand, For to win gold & fe, In seruise wiþ ȝour king to be. 1486 J. Mirk's Liber Festiuall (Rood & Hunte) sig. i.ij/2 This childe was takyn with enemys and ladde in to anothir straynge countre & there he was in seruice in the kynges courte. 1544 Act 35 Henry VIII c. 1 §8 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 957 Persons..that shall have anye Office..or shalbe receyved in service withe his Grace. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 287 Caliban Whom now I keepe in seruice . View more context for this quotation 1732 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Blunderer iv. i. 133 in Sel. Comedies III I wou'd place in his Hands..some small Matter my Father had left me, and what I had got in Service. 1810 B. Silliman Jrnl. Trav. II. lxxx. 299 Even now, in winter, some of the female servants in Edinburgh walk about the streets..without shoes or stockings; in London I never saw girls in service so destitute. 1938 ‘N. Shute’ Kindling (1964) i. 14 I've been in service nearly forty years, ever since I was a little nipper in the stables. 2014 Acadiensis 43 88 Interviews with 21 former domestics..provide a more intimate portrait of girls in service in the interwar period. (ii) Engaged in (esp. active) military service; serving in the armed forces. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > [adjective] > serving as soldier serving1569 in service1591 militarya1616 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 169 Although he neuer saw the enimy in the face, yet he may be rather accounted a trained souldier, then he which hath bene 20. yeares in seruice, and in 20. battailes, if this skil be wanting in him. 1646 Perfect Diurnall No. 147 1177 To require all Officers and Souldiers..to forbeare to have any dealing..with any person whatsoever formerly in service against the Parliament of England. 1799 J. McHenry Let. 3 Sept. in G. Washington Papers (1999) Retirement Ser. IV. 282 A return..exhibiting the names..of the field officers who were in service to the termination of the late war. 1855 Life of Sam Houston xliii. 377 Five hundred of the best cavalry now in service. 1947 G. E. Govan & J. W. Livingood Univ. of Chatanooga xvii. 170 There were 485 stars on the flag for men in service. 2004 M. Oke Times of our Lives 149 The Home Guard undertook dangerous work like bomb disposal and manning ack-ack guns—indeed, over 1,200 died in service. (iii) Feudal Law. Used to refer to land held of another in return for service (sense 10a); generally contrasted with in demesne (see demesne n. 1a). Chiefly in to hold in service [after Anglo-Norman tenir en service (late 13th cent. or earlier) and post-classical Latin tenere in servitio (14th cent. in British sources)] : to hold (land) of another in this way; (also) to hold (land) which is occupied by a subtenant. Now rare (historical in later use). ΚΠ 1642 Iust Reward of Rebels sig. Bv That no Acres of Land held in service or bondage, should bee held but for foure pence the Acre. 1660 W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind 109 Fees..were holden but in service, nomine quasi alieno, the Dominium, that at least of Lawyers called directum. 1883 T. Twiss tr. H. de Bracton De Legibus Angliæ VI. xxvii. 417 The tenant cannot lose that in demesne, which he only holds in service. 1897 F. W. Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond 256 What then the folk owns..is not (if we may introduce such feudal terms) ‘land in demesne’ but ‘land in service’, in other words, a superiority or seignory over land. 2008 M. P. Cosman & L. G. Jones Handbk. Life Medieval World I. ii. 116/1 In England a demesne was land held in possession for one's own use, belonging to oneself, tenere in domineo, lands possessed by free tenure, as opposed to lands held in service, tenere in servitio. (iv) Of a device, facility, system, etc.: in or available for use; spec. (of a telephone line or number) still in use, connected. Also in negative constructions, as not (also no longer) in service and variants: no longer in use or available; disconnected, discontinued, etc. Cf. out of service at Phrases 1d. ΚΠ 1912 Times 20 Apr. 24/1 The first automobile fire truck will soon be in service. 1915 Public Service Mag. (Chicago) June 185/2 (heading) Payment of rental when telephone is not in service. 1936 Air Stories Dec. 544/1 The R.A.F.'s latest fighter-bomber is as fast as any fighter yet in service. 1983 Bond Buyer (Nexis) 22 Mar. The rail system would have Japanese-built ‘bullet trains’... Similar trains have been in service in Japan since 1964. 2005 M. O'Connor Bitch Posse xiv. 118 Sorry that number is no longer in service. 2014 R. Peters D.A. Diary 302 The bus driver said..he was going straight to Slough and the bus was not in service. < as lemmas |
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