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单词 at the mouth
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at the mouth
11. Determining the source from which anything comes, and at which we seek it: e.g. To ask, inquire, seek, learn, take, get, obtain, find, have, receive, buy, earn, win, suffer, at. Obsolete or dialect (repl. by of, from) except in (b.) the expanded phrases at the mouth or at the hands of.
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c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 29 Leorniað æt me.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxv. 28 Anymað ðæt pund æt hym.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 33 Þu most biȝeten milce et þine drihtene.
c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 3103 At the lady the ryng he hase.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2697 Mai he no leue at hire taken.
a1400 Chester Pl. 194 Receive my sonne nowe at me.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 484 Thai ask mercy, bot nocht at ȝow.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. ii. Argt. Quhou Eneas socht answer at Apollyne.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith x. 7 They axed no question at her, but let her go.
1618 M. Baret Hipponomie Pref. Nature [hath] giuen to the Ant, such prouidence, that Man is wished to learne at her.
1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 38 For that purpose, we must inquire at nature.
1883 J. Sime Hist. All-Israel vii. 170 He was making a similar inquiry..at other maidens.
b.1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 132 I took it kindly at her hands.1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 397 All that they had..suffered at the hands of the Tories.1884 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Feb. 303/1 He took at their hands the most outrageous treatment.
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