| 单词 | the article of death |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(in) the article (formerly also †articles) of death P2. (in) the article (formerly also †articles) of death: (at) the moment of death. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > point of death's gateOE the gate(s of death1340 lasta1382 (in) the article (formerly also articles) of death1483 death's door1515 the valley of the shadow of death1535 (one's) last gasp1564 death door1601 extremity1602 on one's last legs1614 verge1750 the Great (Continental) Divide1908 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton F vj b Euery man ought to haue good hope whan he is in the article of deth. a1500 Craft of Deyng (Cambr. Kk.1.5) in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 167 Thai that are in the artykle of ded has vþir temptacions. 1512 MS. Reg. Test. Ebor. VIII. 101 b Seyng the articlys of deth comyng apon me. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. iii. 551 The common customes of the world expound all the laws of the Blessed Jesus so as to be truly obligatory at no time but in the danger, or in the article of death. 1782 T. Newton Wks. II. 706 In the article of death he commended his soul to God. 1816 S. Phillipps Treat. Law of Evid. viii. 374 A will is often executed suddenly in a last sickness, and sometimes in the article of death. 1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law vi. 207 Roman citizens originally made their Wills only in the article of death. 1924 C. S. Lewis Diary 4 May (1991) 319 Farki's daughter had just got the sack from a London hospital for feeding a child who had diabetes on plum cake in the article of death. 1947 Philos. Rev. 56 215 In the very article of death Socrates says: ‘Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and don't forget’. 1981 C. Harvie No Gods & Precious Few Heroes (1993) vi. 169 The works..was demolished in 1996. By 1996, too, the shipyards seemed close to the article of death. < as lemmas |
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