| 单词 | law it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto law it ΚΠ 1653 H. Cogan in tr. N. N. Scarlet Gown Ep. Ded. sig. A3 That pragmatique Superintendent Court, and Consistory, which Lords and Lawes it, or would willingly doe so, over the whole world. to law it a. intransitive. To go to law, litigate. Also to law it. Also colloquial or dialect in indirect passive. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > go to law or litigate [verb (intransitive)] pursue1389 suea1422 pleada1425 proceed1425 pleac1450 to wage one's (or the) law1455 to go to (the) law?a1513 to put at ——1534 to prosecute the law against (also upon)1535 law?a1550 to follow a suit1571 prosecute1611 to go to suit1690 litigate1726 ?a1550 Hye Way to Spyttel Ho. 799 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 59 They that lawe for a debt vntrew. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvi. 137 He will needes lawe it, which careth for no lawe. a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) iv. 52 Ye must law and claw before ye get it. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iii. 10 If we Law it on till Lewis turns honest, I am afraid our Credit will run low at Blackwell-Hall! a1734 R. North Lives of Norths I. 108 There [i.e. in Ho. of Lords] the knight lawed by himself, for no person opposed him. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 13 People who inherited estates that were lawed about. < as lemmas |
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