单词 | to excuse to be |
释义 | > as lemmasto excuse (a person or thing) to be ΚΠ a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xviii. 7 No man may excuse him ‘þat he ne is sum tyme stird fra synn to gode’. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxiii. 6 Couþest þou nat excuse þe..þat þow nome no more þan neode þe tauhte? c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xcv. 309 The prouost..excusynge hym selfe that he knew nothynge of ye trewes. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. E2 Excusing himselfe, That it was reason to yeeld to him, that commaunded thirtie Legions. View more context for this quotation 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. i. 323 The Father excepts the Nerves of the Privity manifestly hollow, which nevertheless his Son excuses to have been meant of the hollow Ligaments of the Privity. < as lemmas |
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