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单词 rife in one's mouth
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rife in one's mouth
a. Of speech, words, etc.: commonly or frequently employed or heard; esp. in rife in one's mouth and variants. Obsolete.
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c1225 (?OE) Soul's Addr. to Body (Worcester) (Fragm. C) l. 22 Os tuum habundauit malitia, was on þine muþe luþernesse ripe [prob. read rife].
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid i. Prol. 381 [Words] Quhilkis ar als rife amange clerkis in scule As euir fowlis plungit in laik.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xxii. sig. T.i The manifold foolishe vnfaithfull wordes, which are, so rife in ouer manye mennes mouthes.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 37 But what if thys were a ryfe phrase in Pliny?
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xviii. 221/1 Hauing that Apothegme of Scipio Africanus rife in his mouth.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 866 That grounded maxim So rife and celebrated in the mouths Of wisest men. View more context for this quotation
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby 5/1 Known as being no longer inclined to pursue their policy of the preceding session..[the Peers] thus obtained a title at the moment rife in everybody's mouth—the title of ‘the Waverers.’
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 68 What's the adage rife in man's mouth?
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