| 单词 | sit under |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sit under —— to sit under —— intransitive. Originally: to regularly attend or listen to (a minister or his preaching); to be a devotee of (a minister or his preaching). Later also: to study under the direction of (a teacher), to be the pupil of. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > [verb (transitive)] > be pupil of to go to school (to, (also with))a1450 to sit at the feet of1578 to sit under ——1631 to be up to1874 society > faith > worship > church-going > attend (church) [verb (transitive)] > of particular minister to sit under ——1631 1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 180 Litle doe people thinke, who sit under our Ministry, unwrought upon by the word, what a grievous..sinne they commit. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 6 There would then also appear in Pulpits other visages, other gestures,..then what we now sit under. 1754 Connoisseur No. 27. ⁋5 The..audience that sits under our preachers. 1797 R. Storry in J. Forster Poems Relig. Subj. To Rdr. The privilege which he enjoyed in sitting under the ministry of the late..Mr. Adam. 1878 J. A. Symonds in Brown Life (1903) 338 Your sermon on Faith..makes me wish that I had the privilege of ‘sitting under’ you. 1899 J. London Let. 20 Sept. (1966) 56 Stopped over at Stanford, where I..sat under the various profs. 1952 ‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands iii. 39 He ‘sat under’ a bank clerk in Glasgow, a chap from Uist, and swotted up some Gaelic. 2011 A. P. F. Sell Bible in Church, Acad., & Culture i. 16 I had the pleasure of sitting under Dr. Evans at the University of Manchester. to sit under to sit under (a preacher): see to sit under —— at sit v. Phrasal verbs 2. See also study v. 14a.extracted from underprep.< as lemmas |
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