| 单词 | mass! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmass! a. by the mass: expressing asseveration, or as an oath. Also English regional (Cumberland): amass. Also simply mass! (as int.). (In some dramatic uses perhaps indicative of the speaker's rusticity or ignorance.) Now archaic.Amass may represent on mass with a for on (see a prep.1; cf. on prep. 1e). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > (originally) with reference to mass by the massc1404 by the mattea1556 by (the) mackins!?1577 mack!?1577 mass!?1592 by the maskins!1611 c1404 Confession Abbot Beeleigh in Misc. Exchequer (P.R.O.: E 163/6/28) m. 12 He..swor be tweyne masses þat..he parted fro kyng Richard. c1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess 928 By the masse I durste swere..That ther was never yet..Man ne woman gretly harmed. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Giv By the messe I shall cleue thy heed to the waste. ?1553 Respublica (1952) i. iii. 11 Masse, and I will looke to be served of the beste. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. D3 Mas the foole sayes true. a1679 R. Boyle Mr. Anthony (1690) III. 23 By the Mass, I like not that Expression. 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iii. i. 41 So, so, enough Father—Mess, I'd rather kiss these Gentlewomen. 1723 S. Centlivre Artifice iv. ii. 60 Sam. Is not your Name Crumplin? Fain. Ay, marry, is it; be mess, I shou'd know yow too! 1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 14 Oh, a British Child, by the Mess. 1816 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) I. 350 By the mass, I look back with..much longing to her bounteous establishment. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. i. ii. 41 Mass! I had forgot. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxi. 264 By the mass ye may not question it! 1991 Past & Present 56 It is clear that what excited Pickering's ire..were oaths smacking of Catholicism: ‘by the mass’, ‘by our Lady’ and so on. < as lemmas |
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