| 单词 | to flow with milk and honey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto flow with milk and honey 14. to flow with (†in, †of): to abound in, to overflow with. Now rare except in Biblical phrase to flow with milk and honey (Wyclif and Mandeville, following a barbarism of the Vulgate, use the verb in this phrase as transitive). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (transitive)] > flow with runa1225 to flow with1382 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > make abundant [verb (transitive)] > abound in or with flourishc1380 to flow with (in, of)1382 redound1483 fleeta1500 swim1526 rebound1535 abound1591 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. iii. 8 A loond that flowith [a1425 L.V. with] mylk and hony. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxx. 137 I sall giffe to ȝow land flowande mylke and hony. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Eccles. xi. 25 Who schal..flowe in delicis as Y dide? 1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. D.iij Such as flowe in worldly goodes. a1592 H. Smith Three Serm. (1624) 23 Christ so flowed now with Diciples, that [etc.]. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 877 The Unjust and Ungodly, often flow in all kind of Prosperity. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. lii. 269 A land flowing with milk and honey. < as lemmas |
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