单词 | prick and praise |
释义 | > as lemmasprick and praise (also price, prise, prize) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > for something done thank1297 prick and praise (also price, prise, prize)?a1534 kudos1831 ?a1534 H. Medwall Nature ii. sig. fiiv Now forsoth I gyue the pryk and pryse, Thou art worth the weyght of gold. 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xxiv. f. 35v At the laste acknowledginge his erroure, was constrained to geue him the pricke and price. 1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. iv. 6/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II In these seruices, as in all other, Robert of Barrie, and Meilerius had the pricke and praise. ?1589 Whip for an Ape sig. A2v For knaue and foole thou maist beare pricke and price. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ix. xvi. 324 For in running..he had not his peere, but went away with pricke and prise before all other in those daies. 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 49 The women gave him prick and praise for beauty. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew The Prick and Praise of our Town, that bears the Bell..in all Exercises, as Wrestling, Running,..&c. < as lemmas |
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