单词 | still of noise |
释义 | > as lemmasstill of noise ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] to hold one's tonguec897 to keep one's tonguec897 to be (hold oneself) stilla1000 to say littleOE to hold one's mouthc1175 to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 to keep (one's) silence?c1225 to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275 stillc1330 peacec1395 mum1440 to say neither buff nor baff1481 to keep (also play) mum1532 to charm the tonguec1540 to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546 hush1548 to play (at) mumbudgeta1564 not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590 to keep a still tongue in one's head1729 to sing small1738 to sew up1785 let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814 to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824 to choke back1844 mumchance1854 to keep one's trap shut1899 to choke up1907 to belt up1949 to keep (or stay) shtum1958 shtum1958 a1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxii. 34 Þæt he het þa saduceiscan stylle beon [L. quod silentium imposuisset Sadducæis]. a1200 Moral Ode 112 Þe ðe lest wat biseið ofte mest; þe hit al wat is stille. c1200 Vices & Virtues 11 Ðus ðu dedest, and ic was stille. a1225 Leg. Kath. 373 Stille beo þu þenne & stew swuche wordes. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 92 Ich am stille of þet mare [i.e. I do not speak of the greater (offence)]. c1275 Passion our Lord 253 in Old Eng. Misc. Ihesuc hym wes stille, nolde heo nowyht speke. c1305 St. Christopher 165 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 64 Þu miȝt, quaþ þis oþer: as wel beo stille. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1388 Ne sileas [etc.]..Þat es to say, be noght swa stille, Þat [etc.]. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xx. 31 Forsothe the cumpanye blamyde hem, for to be stille [L. ut tacerent]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19994 Fra nu forward i will O þe apostels hald me still. c1400 Rule St. Benet i. 4 Better es to be stille þan for to speke of þair lif. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1677 And whan he say the peple of noyse al stille Thus shewed he the myghty dukes wille. a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 6 Ȝif þou had bene stille thou had bene holden a philosophre. c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 665 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 323 Þai held þame stil, þo þai wa ware, nedly for þai mycht nomare. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 63 Be nocht of langage quhair ȝe suld be still. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxviii. 236 Better it is to shew the trouthe then to be styll. 1518 H. Watson tr. Hystorye Olyuer of Castylle (Roxb.) K 1 b Wherfore she helde her styll and sayd nothynge. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxxiiiv Lo eke an olde prouerbe amonges many other, He that is stylle semeth as he graunted. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zech. ii. 13 Let all flesh be still before the Lorde, for he is rysen out of his holy place. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 794 All was still and muete, and not one worde aunswered to. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 49 Peace, and be still . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. ii. 69 Oh soft sir, hold you still. < as lemmas |
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