单词 | to catch, find, hent, kep, thole, etc, scathe |
释义 | > as lemmasto catch, find, hent, kep, thole, etc., scathe c. The corresponding passive notion is expressed by to get, have, take scathe. †Also, to catch, find, hent, kep, thole, etc., scathe. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > do harm [verb (intransitive)] > be harmed to get, have, take scathe1303 suffer1609 damn1620 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 10648 Sey me þe soþe, and, as y am knyȝt, Þou ne shalt haue for me skaþe ne plyȝt. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iv. 65 Withouten gult, god wot gat I þis scaþe. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 151 Lest he skaþe hent. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. xxx. 464 To redresse the harmes and the scathes that he had of them. c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 252 He [sc. the boar] began to dotur and dote Os he hade keghet scathe. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 358 Menand the scath that he had tane. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. v. 116 How grete harme and skaith..That childe hes caucht throw lossing of his modir! c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5103 Hit is skille for his skorne, þat he scathe thole. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 47 The fyir slaucht vil consume the vyne vitht in ane pipe..& the pipe vil resaue na skaytht. ?1572 R. Sempill Premonitioun Barnis of Leith (single sheet) That nane of ȝow kep ony skayth For laik of Premonitioun. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. i. vi. 20 He tolde what skath the Centaures late..had found. 1642 in J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) p. xvii Suche personis as had cum from Irland, and had gottin great skaithe thair. 1721 A. Ramsay Fygar rub her iv Laying a' the wyte On you, if she kepp ony skaith. a1732 T. Boston View this & Other World (1775) v. 259 He..could not miss to catch scathe if all the better care was not taken to prevent it. 1839 H. Campbell Only Daughter iii The Laird of Kilmore..took no scaith from the..attractions of the Misses Sibellas, and Miss Anabels of the county, and at the age of forty he was still a bachelor. < as lemmas |
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