单词 | to come abroad |
释义 | > as lemmasto come abroad to come abroad ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > from one's house or place stir?a1500 to come abroad?1516 sally1590 ?1516 T. More Mery Gest He myght not come abrode. ?1532 T. Paynell tr. Erasmus De Contemptu Mundi x. sig. L.ij He dredde and was ashamed to come abrode in the syght of folkes. 1578 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) Abdere se literis, to liue unknowne in continuall studie, and neuer come abroade. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. vi. 134 They dare not come abroad all their liues after, but melancholize in corners. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. ii. vi. 174 Keeping the Plants warm, and thereby enticing the young lurking Flowers to come abroad. 1746 J. Hervey Refl. Flower-garden 73 in Medit. among Tombs Such would be the ill Effect, if the most stately Species of Flowers should presume to come abroad in the blustering Months. 1752 C. Lennox Female Quixote I. i. v. 21 I did not imagine he would have been well enough to come abroad so soon. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 17 The acid..usually comes abroad at five times the strength of vinegar. 1887 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 22 June 3/6 The Queen..drove all the way from Constitutional Hill to Westminster... Immense multitudes..had come abroad to welcome her. 1916 C. M. Doughty Titans iv. 87 The people come abroad, is thronging then, To wells. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (intransitive)] > spread or be current springOE spreadc1300 to go abouta1325 quicka1400 risea1400 runa1400 walkc1400 stir1423 voice1429 fly1480 to go abroad1513 to come abroad1525 wandera1547 divulge1604 to get abroad1615 to take aira1616 to make (also do) the rounds1669 to get about1740 reach1970 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. lxxxxiiiiv/1 When these wordes came abrode [Fr. furent bien ouvertes en tous lieux] and to the herynge of the kynges vncles, they were ryght gladde therof. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere Pref. sig. Bbv Of all theyr bookes that yet came abrode in englysshe..was neuer none yet so bad, so folysshe, nor so false as hys. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Luke viii. 17 For there is not any thing..hid, that shall not be knowen, and come abrode. 1637 W. Prynne Quench-coale 24 When this new Booke was printed, no Coppies must come abrode..before the Bishop of London had presented it to your Majesty, and gained your Royall approbation thereof. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) To Rdr. Some Writings of mine have without my privity come abroad in Print. 1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife Ded. sig. A Now the Piece is come abroad into the World, give me leave to hope that You will take it under your Protection. a1799 J. Meikle Solitude Sweetened (1803) 73 If it comes abroad that you live near God, and above the vanities of time, you will forthwith be a gazing-stock to all. 1909 Proc. Conf. Care Dependent Children 152 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (60th Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. 721) XIII No State can be long indifferent if the notion comes abroad that the education of any class of its young citizens is seriously neglected. 3. intransitive. To come to a foreign country or overseas. Cf. to go abroad 4 at go v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iv. xiii. 464 They came abroad a pyrating [Sp. venían en corso] with the other Turks. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 222 He was a ree-brained divell, but thought nothing of it, as all the British are so when they come abroad. 1882 Med. & Surg. Rep. 29 Apr. 472/2 I came abroad to study abdominal and pelvic surgery. 1914 E. Pound in Poetry Dec. 129 It is natural and proper that I should have to come abroad to get printed. 1988 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 16 June There are too many Britons behaving badly when they come abroad on holiday. 2006 W. Ngwa & L. Ngwa From Dust to Snow iv. 43 Friends and acquaintances who went to Africa, married and successfully petitioned for their wives to come abroad. < as lemmas |
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