| 单词 | laid in the dust |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaid in the dust a. That to which anything is reduced by disintegration or decay; spec. the ‘ashes’, or mouldered remains of a dead body. Also in phrases denoting the condition of being dead and buried ( laid in the dust, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] lichc893 dust?a1000 holdc1000 bonesOE stiff onea1200 bodyc1225 carrion?c1225 licham?c1225 worms' food or ware?c1225 corsec1250 ashc1275 corpsec1315 carcass1340 murraina1382 relicsa1398 ghostc1400 wormes warec1400 corpusc1440 scadc1440 reliefc1449 martc1480 cadaverc1500 mortc1500 tramort?a1513 hearse1530 bulk1575 offal1581 trunk1594 cadaverie1600 relicts1607 remains1610 mummya1616 relic1636 cold meat1788 mortality1827 death bone1834 deader1853 stiff1859 ?a1000 Martyrol. (E.E.T.S.) 74 Þæt hi mihton mid heora handum ræcan ond niman þæs halgan dustes. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4124 Many [a day] hade i be ded and to dust roted. 1388 J. Wyclif Psalms xxi[i]. 16 Thou hast brouȝt forth me in to the dust of deth. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 199 Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till a find it stopping a bunghole? View more context for this quotation 1676 I. Mather Hist. King Philip's War (1862) 38 That Great Author, unto whose dust..I owe a sacred Reverence. 1751 T. Gray Elegy xi. 7 Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 263 One, without whose friendly aid the hand which writes this would long since have been in the dust. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xi. §2. 40 Worthier dust lies east and west of him. < as lemmas |
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