单词 | to have one's wills |
释义 | > as lemmasto have (also get) one's wills a. That which a person desires, (one's) desire. Chiefly as object of to have. Often followed by of indicating the person affected. Also (chiefly Scottish) in plural, in to have (also get) one's wills (obsolete). Now archaic or poetic. ΚΠ eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. xix. 461 Siððan [he þæs welan full bið, þonne þincð] him þæt he hæbbe ælcne willan gif he hæ[b]be anwald. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1097 Se cyng geseah þet he nan þingc his willes þær geforðian ne mihte. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 39 Haue ȝe or wyl, ȝe waxeþ vnwraste. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 26880 Þe warlau sal noght in þis man Haue sa mikel of his will, Als if he desseli did ill. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 50 Quhill I oucht wantit of my will or quhat I wald desir. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. B4 The sundrie dangers of his wils obtaining. View more context for this quotation 1611 W. Adams Let. in T. Rundall Mem. Japon (1850) 25 God..would not suffer them to haue their willes of vs. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) i. iv. 145 Would'st haue me weepe? why now thou hast thy will . View more context for this quotation 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §35 He had the Will of his Maid before he could Speak or Go. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 6 The wedding guest..listens like a three year's child; The Marinere hath his will. 1828 P. Buchan Anc. Ballads & Songs N. Scotl. I. 242 When he had got his wills o' her, And his wills he had ta'en. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 929 Have all thy will of words; talk out thine heart. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xxv. 36 A lad that lives and has his will Is worth a dozen dead. 1924 Swatches o' Hamespun 4th Ser. 19 Gin aul lucky hid her wulls o's, we'd be as bare as the laads at Teuchatslap. 1999 I. Edghill Queenmaker (2003) vi. 82 So the shepherd's son is a king in the land, and Samuel has had his will at last. < as lemmas |
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