单词 | to go after |
释义 | > as lemmasto go after —— to go after —— 1. intransitive. To go in pursuit of; to hunt. Also: to seek the company of (a person), esp. as a lover.See also to go after strange flesh at flesh n. 1h. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow [verb (transitive)] > pursue followOE driveOE to go after ——OE to come after——c1275 pursuec1300 suec1300 catcha1325 chasec1330 enchasec1380 to pursue aftera1387 ensuea1513 subsecute1548 prosecute1549 jass1577 course1587 to make after ——a1592 scorse1596 chevya1825 to take out after1865 shag1913 OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Maccabees (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1900) II. 110 Ac him [sc. Judas] æfter eode þæt oðer gefylce mid gefeohte hindan [L. secuti sunt post Iudam et qui cum ipso erant a tergo]. c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 168 Þes ben grucchers, pleiners, goinge aftur here desires. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 158 Hercules dyd on the skyn of the lyon and toke his swerd his bowe & his arowes And than wente after the geantes. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 101 (MED) Pharao..toke þre hundyrt of charyotes of hys owne..and ȝode aftyr hom. c1510 H. Watson tr. Valentine & Orson sig. B.v Whan the Archebysshop sawe that the lady was departed, he thought in hymselfe that he wolde go after her, and that with her he wolde do his pleasure. 1664 C. Jelinger Cluster of Sweetest Grapes for Saints 75 O Souls, Souls here are Apples, flagons, here showers of Mannah for you to be had by you. Oh! go after them. 1732 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Squire Lubberly iii. vi. 131 in Sel. Comedies VI She's become so mad for him, that she has left you to go after him. 1752 London Mag. Nov. 606/1 Some drovers coming by, he discover'd his case to them, who went after the villain. 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. iv. 58 Now, Edward, we are going after a fine stag. 1889 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 659 Don't you go after that Frenchwoman. They're not to be trusted. 1913 H. Gordon River Motor Boat Boys on Columbia xxiii. 243 Perhaps you'd better get your men together, all ready to go after the robbers. 1961 R. Gover One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 32 I didn't know whether to go after her or wait patiently for whatever might happen next. 2007 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 14 Aug. b7 The officers' time would have been better spent going after the thugs who are giving our city its bloody reputation. 2. intransitive. to go after (other) gods: (in biblical use) to worship gods other than the God of Israel. Also in extended use. [Ultimately after Hebrew hālaḵ 'aḥărē 'ēlōhīm 'ăḥērīm (Deuteronomy 13:2, etc.), lit. ‘to go after other gods’, where hālaḵ 'aḥărē , lit. ‘to go after’, is used in the figurative sense ‘to follow the guidance of (a person)’. Compare similar uses of walk v. 7a and see the etymological note at that sense; compare also post-classical Latin ambulare post deos alienos (Vulgate), a calque on the Hebrew idiom.] ΚΠ 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Deut. xiii. f. xxvv Lat vs goo after straunge Goddes which thou hast not knowen, and let vs serue them. 1534 G. Joye tr. Jeremy Prophete ix. sig. D.ii v They..folowed the craftynes of their owne shrewed hartis & went aftir goddes as their fathers taught them. 1554 J. Knox Faythfull Admon. sig. B. v Thys people..go after other gods, to worship and serue them. 1673 T. Holme Brief Relation Sufferings of Quakers in Ireland 68 Solomon went after other Godds, and took Wives of the Idolatrous Nations. 1709 W. Reeves in tr. Justin Martyr et al. Apol. II. xl. 342 Let their vain Imaginations go after Gods of their own Invention. 1764 A. Purver New & Literal Transl. Bks. Old & New Test. II. (Jer. vii. 6) Neither shed innocent Blood in thie Place, not go after other gods to your own Hurt. 1868 Friends' Intelligencer 21 Mar. 28/1 They have gone after gods that could do them no good. 1986 E. E. Cleveland Milk & Honey 124 They went after gods of wood and stone. 2008 M. Slaughter Momentum for Life (rev. ed.) vii. 125 We abandon the path of ascent to go after gods that promise to make us happy. < as lemmas |
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