单词 | through a person's hand |
释义 | > as lemmasthrough a person's hand(s) a. With reference to action performed with the hand, and hence to action generally; (in later use) esp. the agency or instrumentality of a person; power, influence. Esp. in expressions such as by the hand(s) of, by a person's hand, through the hand(s) of, through a person's hand(s), etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > action performed by handeOE the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] > specifically a person through a person's hands (also hand)c1330 by the hand(s) of1639 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) cviii. 26 (27) Vt sciant quia manus tua haec est : ðæt witen ðætte hond ðin ðeos is. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxii. 357 Ða worhte god fela tacna on þam folce þurh ðæra apostola handum. OE Paris Psalter (1932) lxxvi. 17 Folc þin ðu feredest swa fæle sceap þurh Moyses mihtige handa [L. in manu Mosi]. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. viii. 36 Hit is comaunded to me & aaron & his sonys doden alle þynges þat þe lord spak by þe hond of Moises. ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iv. met. iii. l. 3503 O feble and lyȝt is þe hand of Circes þe enchaunteresse þat chaungeþ þe bodies of folk in to bestes. 1449 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 147 (MED) As wele when he is in goode hele as when he is visited by the hond of Gode. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges vi. 36 Yf thou wilt delyuer Israel thorow my hande. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) ix. 59 Behold. the hand of the lorde is na scheortar nor it vas. 1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 58 To suffer by the hands of the hangman. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §8 If some..attribute such things to Gods immediate hand. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 305 I sent it by the Hand of an Enemy. 1785 New London Mag. Dec. 288/1 All around are made to feel her bounty, whose hand is ever stretched forth to relieve the wants of the distressed. 1847 Church of Eng. Mag. 12 June 385/1 The value of time is best appreciated in considering it as coming from the Lord's hand. 1913 Nation 5 June 575/2 She was one..whose hand was seen in political intrigues involving persons of the highest rank. 1961 New Scientist 31 Aug. 523 It is impossible not to see his hand behind the remarkably comprehensive symposium on the subject held in Cardiff last year. a2005 R. Hounsome Very Nearly Man (2006) 212 Did I detect the hand of my guiding spirit yet again? through a person's hands (also †hand) a. through a person's hands (also †hand), through the hands of a person: so as to be handled or dealt with by the specified person. through many hands (and variants): via many people, via numerous intermediaries. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] > specifically a person through a person's hands (also hand)c1330 by the hand(s) of1639 c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 1035 Erst þow schelt pase þourȝ min hond. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. clxxxii/1 The money..paste throughe his handes and his treasourers. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 346 They are able in one day to make two hundred Harquibushes..although there be no Harquebush that goeth through lesse than ten hands at the least. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures iv. 8 The things of God..lose their value and force, when they are sifted through so many hands. 1709 J. Bagford in MS Rawl. Let. 21 lf. 8 All of them from ye Bookes themselues which haue run throw my handes. 1778 A. Lee Let. 9 Jan. in R. H. Lee Life A. Lee (1829) II. 127 To call those to an account, through whose hands I know the public money has passed. 1862 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies I. viii. 215 His numbers having suffered corruption during their passage through so many hands. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §6. 408 Plot and approval alike passed through Walsingham's hands. 1947 M. McLuhan Let. Dec. (1987) 191 Two books on popular culture are in process of circulation through editorial hands. 1970 A. K. Armah Fragments iv. 112 I've had six, maybe seven students pass through my hands who really had something. 2006 Vanity Fair July 95/1 It has emerged that the forged Niger documents went through the hands of the Italian military intelligence service. < as lemmas |
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