单词 | to do ease |
释义 | > as lemmasto do (a person) ease a. Comfort, convenience; formerly also, advantage, profit, and in stronger sense, pleasure, enjoyment. to take one's ease: to make oneself comfortable. †to do (a person) ease: to give pleasure or assistance to. †to be (a person's) ease: to be pleasing, convenient, advantageous. ΚΠ c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 61 Gruccheð ȝef ha naueð nawt oðer mete oðer drunch efter hire eise? c1230 Hali Meid. 28 I-se swote eise wiðute swuch trubuil. a1300 Cursor Mundi 22773 Werldis worschip..siluer and gold and esse [F. ese, C. es, Edinb. ais] of lijf. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 35 The woundes of his malady They [i.e. the hounds] licken for to done him ese. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xlvi. 1197 To hem þat lyueþ delicatliche and in ese and reste. a1400 Cato's Distichs (Fairf.) l. 199 in R. Morris Cursor Mundi (1878) III. App. iv. 1672 Quen þou art in gode ese þen þink on mis-ese. c1400 Rom. Rose 7500 We wolden, if it were your ese..A short sermon unto you seyne. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) lxx. 386 I wil neþer selle it..for the aiese that it dothe me. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 362 Bot mycht nane eys let hyr to think On ye king yat sa sar wes stad. 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII xxviii. Preamb. His Highnes is not mynded for the eas of his subgiectes..of longe tyme to calle..a newe parliament. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxcvii. 686 It was nat his ease to come to Tourney as at that tyme. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 653 He levis weill that levis into eis. a1555 H. Latimer Wks. (1845) II. 479 Latimer:—‘Good master Prolocutor, do not exact that of me which is not in me.’ Prolocutor:—‘Take your ease.’ Latimer:—‘I thank you, sir, I am well.’ 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 112 Any good thing..That may to thee doe ease, and grace to mee. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxx. 184 The ease, and benefit the Subjects may enjoy. 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. vi. 110 The general could not live in it to his ease. 1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 4 The portion which came..to Mrs. Jefferson..doubled the ease of our circumstances. 1841–4 R. W. Emerson Manners in Wks. (1906) I. 205 The popular notion [of a gentleman] certainly adds a condition of ease and fortune. 1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 7 June in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vi. 256 The occasional ease of rustic seats. < as lemmas |
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