单词 | so mote i go |
释义 | > as lemmasso mote I go 3. In an expression of wish, forming a periphrastic subjunctive: may. †Formerly often in emphatic or affirmative phrases, as so mote I thee, so mote I go, etc. Now archaic. so mote it be: (used in Middle English as a paraphrase for) amen; hence in Freemasonry, occultism, etc. ΚΠ α. β. a1456 (c1385) G. Chaucer Wordes unto Adam 3 Under thy long lokkes, thou most have the scalle, But after my makyng thou wryte more trewe.OE Paris Psalter (1932) cxl. 7 Ele synfulra æfre ne mote heafde minum hrinan ahwær. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 21 (MED) Ich am cristes maiden; alse þu hauest iseid, swo mote hit wurðe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4481 A mote þu wel færen, & Delgan mi dohter. a1300 Passion our Lord 71 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 39 (MED) ‘Iblessed,’ hi seyde, ‘mote he beo þe cumeþ on godes nome.’ a1300 in H. A. Person Cambr. Middle Eng. Lyrics (1953) 27 (MED) Led us neuere, Louerd, into no fondinge Ac lus us vt of vuele..Amen. so mote hit boe. c1395 G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale 777 Lerneth to suffre or elles, so moot [v.r. must] I gon, Ye shul it lerne wher so ye wole or non. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 5150 (MED) ‘Sais þou soth?’ ‘yaa, sa mot i the.’ c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 136 (MED) So Crist mott me helpe. 1471 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 355 Goddys blissyng and myn mut ye haue both. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiiii Ye mary is it, ye so mote I goo. 1533 T. More Apologye 158 The kynge our souerayne lorde that now is and longe mote be, hath [etc.]. 1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxix. 271 Long moit thir countreis leue in pace togidder. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N3v Well mote yee thee, as well can wish your thought. 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Heautontimoroumenos v. iv, in Terence in Eng. 261 So mought thou liue after me and my husband Chremes, as thou art his and mine. c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 18 Quha God mote prosper. 1634 W. Lathum Phyala Lachrymarum, Meditationes (1932) VIII. 41 Blest mote hee ever bee, who ever can Compose the joyes, and sorrows of his mind. 1772 W. Preston Illustr. Masonry 46 Amen. So mote it be. 1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border I. 9 God mot thee save! brave Outlaw Murray. 1895 ‘H. Haliburton’ Dunbar: Poems adapted for Mod. Readers 84 Saint Francis, loving bee thee till, An' thankit mote thou be for thy gudewill. 1903 J. W. Riley His Pa's Romance 6 Some gal, er widder anyhow, That silly boy he's coaxed at last To marry him!.. An' ef he has, ‘so mote it be’! 1980 E. Jong Fanny i. xii. 93 ‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster. < as lemmas |
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