| 单词 | to be priest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be (a person's) priest † to be (a person's) priest: to kill (a person). Obsolete.With allusion to the function of a priest in performing the last offices to the dying. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (intransitive)] to shed blood?a1100 to let blood?c1225 to be (a person's) priesta1450 shortena1535 kill1535 to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568 to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels1587 to make dice of (a person's) bones1591 to put out (also quench) a person's light(s)1599 account1848 to fix1875 a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 3858 (MED) The Iren with the hawberk met Right ageyn the self brest; Wel nigh it had ben his prest. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iv. viii. sig. H.jv Away loute and lubber, or I shall be thy priest. 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. E4 Who first laies hand on me, ile be his Priest. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 272 And to preserue my Soueraigne from his Foe, Say but the word, and I will be his Priest . View more context for this quotation 1661 Thracian Wonder i. i This hand shall be his Priest that dares agen presume to speak for her. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 32 Anither day like this 'll be my priest. 1810 J. Cock Simple Strains 135 Syne claught the fellow by the breast, An' wi' an awfu' shak, Swore he wad shortly be his priest. 1845 D. Trumbull Death of Capt. Nathan Hale v. i. 28 He asked me to bring him a Bible, and send a minister..but I won't do it; I won't take the one, nor send the other—I'll be his priest myself. < as lemmas |
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