| 单词 | to gird one's loins | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto gird one's loins  a.  transitive. To surround, encircle (the waist, a person about the waist) with a belt or girdle, esp. for the purpose of confining the garments and allowing freer action to the body. Chiefly reflexive or passive; also, after Biblical phrase,  to gird one's loins,  to gird one's reins, etc. Also  to gird up,  to gird about. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing			[verb (transitive)]		 > in specific way > with specific garments > belt or girdle girdc950 begirdc1000 belta1400 girdle1582 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around			[verb (transitive)]		 > surround with begirdc890 belayc893 bitrumc1000 umbegoc1300 vironc1440 compass1481 beset1578 entour1623 to fabricate about with1634 surround1635 hearse1646 gird1667 round1698 entwine1796 c950    Lindisf. Gosp. John xxi. 18  				Mið-ðy [þu] uere giungra ðu waldes ðec gigyrde..miððy uutudlice ðu bist geuintrad..oðer ðec gyrdeð. ?c1225						 (?a1200)						    Ancrene Riwle 		(Cleo. C.vi)	 		(1972)	 307  				Ge Schulen inan hetter & igurd liggen. a1325						 (c1250)						    Gen. & Exod. 		(1968)	 l. 3149  				Sod and girt, stondende, and staf on hond. c1330    R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1804  				Coryneus first vp he stirt, & wyþ a cloþ his body gyrt. a1382    Bible 		(Wycliffite, E.V.)	 		(Douce 369(1))	 		(1850)	 Tobit v. 5  				Tobie..fond a ȝung man stondende, ful faire, gird [1535 Coverdale gyrded vp], and as redi to gon. 1382    Bible 		(Wycliffite, E.V.)	 Exod. xii. 11  				Ȝe schulen girde about ȝoure reynes. c1430    Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 7054  				The lauendres kirtel on she cast, She gird hir, and tukked hir fast. 1483    W. Caxton tr.  J. de Voragine Golden Legende 432 b/2  				For gyrdle he gyrded hym on his bare flesshe wyth a corde. 1535    Bible 		(Coverdale)	 2 Kings iv. 29  				Girde vp thy loynes, and take my staffe in thy hande, and go thy waye. 1535    Bible 		(Coverdale)	 Luke xii. 35  				Let youre loynes be gerded aboute. 1667    J. Milton Paradise Lost  ix. 1113  				Those Leaves They gatherd..And..together sowd, To gird thir  waste.       View more context for this quotation 1782    W. Cowper Truth in  Poems 82  				In shirt of hair, and weeds of canvas dressed, Girt with a bell-rope that the Pope has blessed. 1810    W. Scott Lady of Lake  iii. 106  				He girt his loins, and came. 1865    C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II.  iii. iv. 25  				She girded herself with a white apron. 1872    Earl of Pembroke  & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles vii. 176  				They girded him with strange belts. < as lemmas  | 
	
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