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单词 to dree one's weird
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to dree one's weird
P2. to dree one's weird and variants: to endure one's fate; to suffer or submit to one's destiny. In later use also with a particular kind of fate specified (see e.g. quots. 1816, 1996). Chiefly archaic and literary in later use.In early use only with weird in plural (cf. weird n. 3b).In quot. c1450 apparently (in weakened sense): to try one's luck.
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the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > must as decreed by fate [verb (intransitive)] > endure one's fate
to dree one's weirdc1400
to grin and abide1785
to grin and bear ita1827
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1224 In doungoun be don to dreȝe þer his wyrdes.
c1450 (?a1400) Parl. Thre Ages (BL Add. 31042) l. 3 (MED) Als I went to the wodde my werdes to dreghe..a schotte me to gete At ane hert or ane hynde, happen as it myghte.
1603 Proph. Waldhaue in Whole Prophesie Scotl. sig. Cv Heere in wildernes I dwell, my weird for to dree.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. iii. 54 Ohon! we're dreeing a sair weird—we hae had a heavy dispensation.
1886 E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew III. vi. 133 French must dree his weird as a brave man should.
1922 G. Atherton Sleeping Fires xlvii. 295 ‘Poor Howard!’ ‘He dreed his weird,’ said Mrs. McLane indifferently. ‘He couldn't help it.’
1926 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Drunk Man looks at Thistle 2 Ony man s'ud wish To dree the goat's weird tae as weel's the sheep's!
1996 Independent (Nexis) 25 Feb. 42 I am..hunched keening under the bedclothes with a Cadbury's Creme Egg, dreeing my feeble weird.
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