单词 | belord |
释义 | belordv. 1. transitive. To address or speak of as ‘lord’ or ‘my lord’. Also: to grant the status and title of lord to. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > address specific persons of rank [verb (transitive)] begracec1522 belord1565 grace1597 highness1658 be-ladyship1811 honourable1877 esquire1887 1565 J. Rastell Replie Def. Truth To Rdr. sig. ¶iiijv The author..declareth litle good nurture in not belording some person. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. xxi. 763 You are graced & belorded, & crouched and kneeled vnto. 1785 W. Drennan Let. in Drennan-McTier Lett. (1998) I. 244 I belorded the only lord I knew in proper place and time. 1834 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 478/1 His old naval friend, just belorded by the title of Weybridge. 1883 G. A. Sala in Illustr. London News 7 July 3/1 An American never fails to belord Francis of Verulam. 1923 H. Brighouse Capt. Shapely vi. 115 Will's was not one of the places where a waiter, however abject, belorded a man who was not a lord. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1972) i. 5 Seventeen years Pertiscus sat secure in Laimak, begraced and belorded. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or govern [verb (transitive)] steera900 hold971 wieldOE warda1000 redeOE wisc1000 i-weldeOE rightlecheOE rightOE raima1325 governc1325 guyc1330 rulea1387 justicec1390 rekea1400 reigna1413 lorda1450 earlc1450 seignoryc1475 over-govern1485 overrulec1488 emperyc1503 gubern?a1505 signorize1594 sway1613 gubernate1623 overlead1720 belord1858 prime minister1906 1858 T. F. Barham Philadelphia xiii. 402 This did not..prevent the bishops from belording their flocks in a style of pretty considerable arrogance and pomp. 1890 H. G. Dakyns tr. Xenophon Anabasis in Wks. I. 135 If any one annoys you, with us as your faithful servitors you shall belord it over him. 1895 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 413 Drogo was the name of a gentleman who belorded the manor under Henry the Second. 1914 A. H. Plumb When Mayflowers Blossom xvi. 342 He may not monarchize and belord it over us with conveniency here. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1565 |
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