单词 | storm of strife |
释义 | > as lemmasstorm of strife a. A violent disturbance of affairs whether civil, political, social or domestic; commotion, sedition, tumult. More definitely storm of rebellion, storm of state, storm of strife, storm of war, etc. Frequently in to weather the storm. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > a disturbance or riot stormOE disturbance1297 disturblancec1330 riota1393 disturbation1529 ruffle1534 upstir1549 tumult1560 embroilment1609 hubbuba1625 embroil1636 ruction1809 uproaring1827 OE Andreas (1932) 1236 Storm upp aras æfter ceasterhofum, cirm unlytel hæðnes heriges. c1315 Shoreham Poems vii. 716 For þou [sc. the serpent] areredst þerne storm And alle þys hete, Acorsed be þou bestes by-syde. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 940 Ryȝt so holy chyrche after þat starme Shalle haue þe maystre atte lest. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 Subgette and thral vnto the stormes of fortune. 1614 F. Bacon Charge touching Duels 9 It may cause suddaine stormes in Court, to the disturbance of his Maiestie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 349 I will stirre vp in England some black Storme, Shall blowe ten thousand Soules to Heauen, or Hell. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Caryll Sir Salomon iv. 66 My designs of Revenge are vain, and unjust. I must pull down my Sailes to weather out this storme. 1713 A. Pope Prol. to Cato in Guardian No. 33. A brave Man struggling in the Storms of Fate. 1766 Ld. Kames Remarkable Decisions Court of Session 1730–52 33 Newlands dreading the storm, had retired out of the country. 1802 G. Canning Song Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm! [i.e. Pitt.] 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 623 They were..thrown into the shade by two younger Whigs,..who weathered together the fiercest storms of faction. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xiv. 131 Pa told me, only yesterday morning,..that he couldn't weather the storm. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 207 A violent storm broke forth. Daly was ordered to attend at the bar. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. ix. 361 A monk of the house, who..contrived to weather all storms, and died in possession of his Abbey. 1924 Nation & Athenæum 26 Jan. 603/1 His plight was serious; but he weathered the storm. 1934 F. W. Crofts 12.30 from Croydon viii. 95 He had come to an arrangement with his uncle whereby he hoped to weather the storm. < as lemmas |
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