单词 | to cry aim |
释义 | > as lemmasto cry aim ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > support or encourage [verb (intransitive)] hieldc1325 inclinea1393 favour1393 to cry aim1567 shout1875 root1889 pull1890 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 165v One of the townesmen, standyng rather in his windowe to crye ayme, then helping any waye to part the fraye. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D3 Shake hands & be friendes, meet halfe way, and I standing iump in the middle will crie aime to you both. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 196 It ill beseemes this presence to cry ayme To these ill-tuned repetitions. View more context for this quotation 1624 P. Massinger Bond-man i. iii. sig. C4 Can you coldly suffer such rewards To be propos'd, to Labourers and Slaues? While you that are borne Noble..cry ayme, Like idle lookers on. 1642 in J. A. Atkinson Tracts rel. to Civil War in Cheshire (1909) 24 A man upon his Tower with a flag in his hand cryde them ayme while they discharged their Canon. 1712 in J. Harland Collectanea rel. Manchester & Neighbourhood (1866) 173 I cried ym aim..and only heard how ye matter was. 1805 W. Gifford in P. Massinger Plays II. 27 To cry aim!..was to encourage... Those who cried aim! stood by the archers; he who gave it, was stationed near the butts. 1822 R. Nares Gloss. 8/1 To cry aim, in archery, to encourage the archers by crying out aim, when they were about to shoot. Hence it came to be used for to applaud or encourage in a general sense.] 1843 G. Soane Last Ball I. iv. 135 I must..crush the false hope, which, I can read in that reply..it is my shame that, in mere waywardness of mood, I ever cried aim to it. 1857 ‘Thomas of Swarraton’ Noble Traytour II. xxii. 278 [They] would point him to that mark of glory and greatness his ambition would fain reach; crying aim to his untutored efforts. < as lemmas |
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