单词 | make stand |
释义 | > as lemmasto make (a) stand a. The action or an act of standing in place. Also with reference to a person in motion: the act of coming to a position of rest; a pause or halt in movement (esp. in to make (a) stand). Cf. sense 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > act of arrestc1385 stop?1575 stand1591 the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > be resolute or determined [verb (intransitive)] > make a firm stand to make (a) stand1591 to put one's foot down1833 to stand up to one's lick-logs1834 1591 G. Clayton Approoued Order Martiall Discipline i. 15 He is to accompany the watch to place of stand. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vi. 2 This is the penthouse vnder which Lorenzo desired vs to make stand [1623 make a stand] . View more context for this quotation a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm2v/1 Why dost thou make These often stands? thou saidst thou knewst the way. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite i, in Fables 8 At ev'ry Turn, she made a little Stand, And thrust among the Thorns her Lilly hand To draw the Rose. 1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 208 He made a stand at one of them, and appeared to deposit something. 1898 D. Wingate in Ballads & Poems (Glasgow Ballad Club) 2nd Ser. 272 But bairns cam' hame and stauns cam' roun', A trade depressed brang wages doun. to make (a) stand b. With reference to thoughts, speech, etc.: the act of coming to a stop, pause, or halt. Chiefly in to make (a) stand. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation pause1440 trip1584 interpause1595 wem1599 stand1602 vacation1617 interspiration1623 intercisiona1631 interregnum1659 lapse1838 shutdown1857 break1878 slip1898 seventh-inning stretch1915 standoff1918 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. iii. B2v And thrice, deluded by erroneous sense, I forc't my thoughts make stand. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 39 And we are all well pleas'd, Since all, and euery part of what we would Doth make a stand, at what your Highnesse will. View more context for this quotation a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 536 Had these narrators made a stand here,..they had found nor contradiction nor discommendation. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 33. ⁋7 But by Heaven, and all that's Sacred! If you could ——. Here he made a full Stand. 1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. vii. 127 It was not unthinking carelessness, by which he run on headlong in Vice and Folly, without ever making a stand to ask himself what he was doing. < as lemmas |
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