单词 | lord have mercy |
释义 | > as lemmasLord have mercy (on us) (a) Lord have mercy (on us) and variants. [Compare post-classical Latin Domine miserere mei Lord have mercy on me, Domine miserere nobis Lord have mercy on us (Vulgate), and also Hellenistic Greek Κύριε ἐλέησον Lord have mercy (see Kyrie eleison n.)] extracted from lordn.int. (i) Used as a prayer or exhortation requesting mercy.This prayer was written on the doors of houses affected by the bubonic plague, esp. during the epidemic in London in 1665. ΚΠ a1250 Lofsong Louerde in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 217 Milzfule louerd haue merci of me. ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 101 (MED) Louerde Crist, þou red vs rede, And of vs þou hab mercie. a1500 ( Vision E. Leversedge in Notes & Queries Somerset & Dorset (1905) 9 27 (MED) Lord, have mercy vpon me, the moost wikid synner of all the world. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 419 Write Lord haue mercie on vs, on those three. View more context for this quotation 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. H I am sick, I must dye. Lord haue mercy on vs. 1638 R. West To Pious Memory T. Randolph in T. Randolph Poems sig. ***3 The Titles of their Satyrs fright some, more Then Lord have mercy writ upon a doore. 1665 Londons Lord have mercy upon us (single sheet) The Red Crosse still is us'd, as it hath bin. To shew they Christians are that are within: And Lord have mercy on us on the Door, Puts thee in mind, to pray for them therefore. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 194 He set the great Red Cross upon his Door with the words Lord Have Mercy Upon Us. ?1790 Adventures of Pin ii. 33 O Lord, have mercy upon me, and keep me from all such gentility say I. 1808 E. Sleath Bristol Heiress V. 159 There she died. Lord-a-mercy upon those that had a hand in such a business. 1857 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 8 Aug. 145/1 Some ass of a popular music manufacturer..made of the solemn: ‘Lord, have mercy upon us! Christ, have mercy upon us!’ a mere dance fit for a village festival. 1927 Sci. Monthly Dec. 513/1 The infected house was shut up with a large red cross and ‘Lord have mercy upon us’ painted on the door. 2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 97 And poor Edmund is gone. He was buried yesterday. May the Lord have mercy. (ii) Expressing surprise, dismay, etc. Also in Lord-a-mercy and other contracted forms (cf. God-a-mercy int. 1a). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection] whatOE well, wellOE avoyc1300 ouc1300 ay1340 lorda1393 ahaa1400 hillaa1400 whannowc1450 wow1513 why?1520 heydaya1529 ah1538 ah me!a1547 fore me!a1547 o me!a1547 what the (also a) goodyear1570 precious coals1576 Lord have mercy (on us)1581 good heavens1588 whau1589 coads1590 ay me!1591 my stars!a1593 Gods me1595 law1598 Godso1600 to go out1600 coads-nigs1608 for mercy!a1616 good stars!1615 mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616 gramercy1617 goodness1623 what next?1662 mon Dieu1665 heugh1668 criminy1681 Lawd1696 the dickens1697 (God, etc.) bless my heart1704 alackaday1705 (for) mercy's sake!1707 my1707 deuce1710 gracious1712 goodly and gracious1713 my word1722 my stars and garters!1758 lawka1774 losha1779 Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784 great guns!1795 mein Gott1795 Dear me!1805 fancy1813 well, I'm sure!1815 massy1817 Dear, dear!1818 to get off1818 laws1824 Mamma mia1824 by crikey1826 wisha1826 alleleu1829 crackey1830 Madonna mia1830 indeed1834 to go on1835 snakes1839 Jerusalem1840 sapristi1840 oh my days1841 tear and ages1841 what (why, etc.) in time?1844 sakes alive!1846 gee willikers1847 to get away1847 well, to be sure!1847 gee1851 Great Scott1852 holy mackerel!1855 doggone1857 lawsy1868 my wig(s)!1871 gee whiz1872 crimes1874 yoicks1881 Christmas1882 hully gee1895 'ullo1895 my hat!1899 good (also great) grief!1900 strike me pink!1902 oo-er1909 what do you know?1909 cripes1910 coo1911 zowiec1913 can you tie that?1918 hot diggety1924 yeow1924 ziggety1924 stone (or stiffen) the crows1930 hullo1931 tiens1932 whammo1932 po po po1936 how about that?1939 hallo1942 brother1945 tie that!1948 surprise1953 wowee1963 yikes1971 never1974 to sod off1976 whee1978 mercy1986 yipes1989 1581 T. Lupton Persuasion from Papistrie 293 The other with a starte, sayde Lorde haue mercie vppon me: wyth that Mawlden turned and sayd, what aylest thou Iohn? 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccxlvi. 213 'Tis not a Bare Lord have Mercy upon us, that will help the Cart out of the Mire. ?1780 Adventures Air Balloon (ed. 5) 6 It was with much ado that I prevailed on my father and mother... Lord a mercy on us! 1855 ‘W. Brooke’ Eastford vi. 60 What! a lady drownded!..Lord-a-massy! 1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge I. iii. 49 Lord a mercy, is that how she talks? 1918 G. Moore Story-teller's Holiday xlvii. 284 But lord amassy, what time is it? 1990 P. Matthiessen Killing Mister Watson (1991) 205 O Lord-a-mercy—now why do some fool women do that, you suppose? Lord have mercy (on me) (b) Lord have mercy (on me): a painful and dangerous intestinal illness; = ileus n. 1. Now historical and rare. [Apparently after post-classical Latin Domine miserere, lit. ‘Lord have mercy’, denoting a disease of the gut (early 16th cent. or earlier; attributed to Razi, 10th cent.; also miserere mei, lit. ‘have mercy on me’).] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [noun] > obstruction or constriction iliac passion1519 iliac1542 rest1571 Lord have mercy (on me)1585 miserere mei1611 volvulus1679 ileus1706 miserere1755 typhlostenosis1890 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 433/2 Ileus..the Illiake passion, or a paine and wringing in the small guts, which the homelier sort of Phisicians doe call, Lorde haue mercy vpon me. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. xiii. 58 The torments of the small guts, commonly called the Iliake passion [Note] or, Domine miserere mei,..Lord have mercie upon me. a1836 R. Williams Medicine in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 554/2 Popular opinion, which has termed this disease ‘Lord have mercy upon us’, seems to consider it entirely beyond the powers of medicine. 2010 D. Mitchell 1,000 Autumns Jacob de Voet (2011) i. 71 Death by intussusception, or..‘shitting out your own intestines’... Its Latin name is miserere mei, translatable as ‘Lord have mercy’. < as lemmas |
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