| 单词 | to gibbet into |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto gibbet into 3. figurative. To hold up to infamy or public contempt. Also with up. to gibbet into: to bring into (an ignominious position) as by hanging on a gibbet. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [verb (transitive)] > subject or expose to ignominy bauchle1488 swinge1546 prostitute1613 post1642 gibbet1646 pillory1699 1646 J. Whitaker Danger of Greatnesse 5 God doth..gibbet his open adversaries. 1681 J. Oldham Some New Pieces never Publisht 132 I mean to hang, and gibbet up thy Name. 1752 Bp. W. Warburton Let. to Balguy in Hurd Life (1794) 65 I had gibbeted up Julian, and he comes by night to cut him down. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 39 Thus [he] unknowingly gibbeted himself into infamy, when he might have otherwise quietly retired into oblivion. 1836 R. Southey in Cowper's Wks. II. 26 This reviewal of Cowper's first volume is one of those defunct criticisms which deserve to be disinterred and gibbeted for the sake of example. 1848 Ashley in E. Hodder Life Earl Shaftesbury (1886) II. xvii. 274 Poor Melbourne died yesterday, and to-day he is, of course, gibbeted in the Times. This is ‘one of the new terrors of death’. 1886 T. Frost Reminisc. Country Journalist v. 59 Everybody..[was] apprehensive of being morally gibbeted in its pages. < as lemmas |
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