单词 | to greet fair, friendly, well |
释义 | > as lemmasto greet (a person) fair, friendly, well a. To accost or address with the expressions of goodwill or courtesy usual on meeting; to offer in speech or writing to (a person) the expression of one's own or another's friendly or polite regard. Now only literary. †Formerly often to greet (a person) fair, friendly, well. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > greet or salute greetOE i-gretec1000 hailc1175 anourec1300 saluec1300 hailse1377 salutec1380 salusc1440 halsec1480 begreet1513 enhalse1563 congratulate1589 halch?c1600 regreet1607 to give the day (to)1613 OE Beowulf 614 Cwen..grette..guman on healle. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 18 Ongunnon hine þus gretan hal wes þu iudea cyning. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 121 Þet folc..hine greite and cleopede king on bismer. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2417 Wha-swa oðerne imette þer fæire hine igrætte [c1300 Otho grette]. c1325 Lay le Freine 257 The abbesse and the nonnes alle, Fair him gret in the gest-halle. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2170 Go forth..& gret wel my doȝtre dere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4339 Quen he had hir hend-li gret. c1410 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ (Gibbs MS.) iv What tyme þat oure blessed lady grette Elizabeth. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 974 Rycht gudlye he with humylnes him gret. 1553 Queen Mary I in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) III. ii. 171 (App. i. 3) We grete you well. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. v. 13 There's other of our friends Will greet vs heere anon. View more context for this quotation 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Greet (old Word), to salute. ?1728 R. Blair Poem to W. Law 7 If..thou greets Heav'n's King, and shoutest thro' the..Streets. 1794 W. Jones tr. Inst. Hindu Law ii. §132 The wife of his brother..must be saluted every day; but his paternal and maternal kinswomen need only be greeted on his return from a journey. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. xxii. 23 Greet the father well from me. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxix. 501 I had passed Jane Rodgers..and having just greeted her, had gone on. < as lemmas |
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