单词 | to do, make, render stead |
释义 | > as lemmasto do, †make, †render stead a. Advantage, avail, profit, service, support; esp. in to stand in stead, also †to stand to stead, †to stand stead; to do, †make, †render stead. Now only archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [noun] fremea700 redeeOE noteeOE goodOE goodnessOE framec1175 winc1175 bihevec1230 behoofc1275 advantagec1300 prowc1300 wellc1300 wainc1315 profita1325 bewaynec1375 vantagec1380 goodshipc1390 prewa1400 steada1400 benefice1426 vailc1430 utilityc1440 of availc1450 prevaila1460 fordeal1470 winning1477 encherishingc1480 benefit1512 booty1581 emolument1633 handhold1655 withgate1825 cui bono1836 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 26512 It sal stand in sted sumquar. c1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 66 Bot þis haþe no stede bot to so streyt a wounde þat þe been may take within his extremitez þe extremitez of þe wounde. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. vi. 61 The giltyn mailȝeis makis hym na steyd, For in the coist he tholis dynt of deyd. 1524 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 389 Ane precept of seysing without charter or ony oþer euident followand þerapoune suld do nane steide nor be of effect. 1524 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 112 To rendre all hert, lefull service, steide, and pleasure, that lyeth in our power. 1524 T. Wolsey in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 139 [They] may and shal do grete stede in advertising the Kinges Grace from tyme to tyme..of the procedinges. 1545 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) X. 272 And now last of all what a stede His Highnes entryng in to the warre was to Him. 1546 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 47 Thai ar contentit to do steid and service to the said Schir Neill. 1551 Princess Mary Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 165 Of my good wyll and prayour to do you stede or pleasur, you shalbe ever duryng my lief assured. 1625 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 113 He..assured him by passed experience what stead your language was to us in the time of our imprisonment. 1637 J. Milton Comus 21 But here thy sword can doe thee little stead. 1643 Orkney Witch Trial in Abbotsford Club Misc. I. 175 I was about the loch with Jonet Sklateris,..but it is for no stead, it will never mend hir. a1670 J. Spalding Troubles Charles I (Bannatyne Club) I. 294 And sic [beasts] as wold not call thay hocht and slew, that thay sould never mak steed. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 396 Stead, aid, assistance, usefulness. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 22 The two grey points that did him stead And passed their eagle-owner to the front. < as lemmas |
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