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单词 to expire one's last
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to expire one's last
4. transitive. To breathe out (the soul, etc.) in the article of death; also, to expire one's last. Obsolete. [Only a special use of sense 1; but the starting-point of a distinct series of senses.]
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c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 3287 On gude ffriday when crist his sawle on crosse expired.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 112 Syn recommanded him to the Goddes And that don expired his lyf.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lviiiv Medas..With paynfull hunger his lyfe breth dyd expyre.
a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. vi. §4 A youth..ready to expire his soule by sickenesse.
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 128 As soon as their Apostle had expired his last breath.
a1671 T. Fairfax Short Mem. (1699) 56 My daughter..in appearance was ready to expire her last.
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 1000 Patroclus thus..So many Lives effus'd, expires his own.
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