单词 | launch into eternity |
释义 | > as lemmasto launch into eternity c. figurative. To start (a person) in, into, or on a business, career, etc.; to set on foot (a project); to commence (an action). Also with out. to launch into eternity: rhetorically for ‘to put to death’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > cause (a person) to begin to do something launch1602 start1757 to set on1823 to start off1844 to set off1863 the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iv. sig. Gv Was neuer Prince..With louder shouts of tryumph launched out Into the surgy maine of gouernment. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 217 Being lanched again into the gulf of misery. View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 108. ¶7 We find several Citizens that were lanched into the World with narrow Fortunes. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 298 I am now launch'd quite beside my Design. 1802 Med. Jrnl. viii. 275 The mention of this term serves to launch the author into a digression. 1812 Examiner 30 Nov. 768/1 The platform, from whence he was to be launched into eternity. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 43 The worthy captain,..fairly launched on the broad prairies, with his face to the boundless west. 1840 W. Irving Ralph Ringwood in Knickerbocker Mag. Sept. 263 It was agreed that..as soon as I should be fairly launched in business, we would be married. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. vi. 104 The pretty youngster..was well launched in Bardo's favourable regard. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 275 The Mississippi scheme launched by John Law. 1884 H. B. Buckley in Law Times Rep. 22 Mar. 115/1 The plaintiff himself has launched this action in the Chancery Division. to launch into eternity 6. To push forth, out from land, put to sea, advance seawards; literal and figurative. to launch into eternity: rhetorically for ‘to die’. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > set out on a voyage to go to seac900 to take the seac1275 to go or fere to (the) saila1375 sail1387 to make saila1500 to set sail1513 lance1526 launch1534 to put off1582 to put out?1587 to put forth1604 to come to sail1633 underweigh1891 to take sail1904 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (reflexive)] > move impetuously throwc1330 launch1534 hurlc1540 shoot1577 run1605 fling1700 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Luke v. 4 He sayde vnto Simon: Launche out in to the depe. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. i. f. 55v He lanched from that lande, and directed his course to Vraba. 1600 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. (rev. ed.) f. 50 v The Thames..That daunc'd with my Barge in launching from the stayre. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. xviii. 60 I doe not finde in ancient bookes, that they have lanched farre into the Ocean. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 385 What need I lanch forth into this forrain deep? 1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe ii. 25 Lanching out into a Sea of strife. 1720 D. Manley Power of Love i. 123 He was afraid his Soul should launch into Eternity without a Guide to direct his Penitence. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. ii. 23 The time of my servitude [has] expir'd, and I am launch'd forth into the great ocean of business. 1766 D. Hume Let. 20 Nov. (1932) II. 111 I find I am launching out insensibly into an immense ocean of commonplace. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 73 We must have launched into a new sea, I fear a boundless sea, of expence. 1773 S. Johnson Let. 21 Sept. (1992) II. 77 We launched into one of the straits of the Atlantick Ocean. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xii. 107 Before any Greek navigator ventured..to launch out beyond Sicily. 1875 H. W. Longfellow Pandora ii Forth I launch On the sustaining air. < as lemmas |
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