单词 | to have, take the steer |
释义 | > as lemmasto have, take the steer (of a country, etc.) 1. The action of directing or governing; guidance, control, rule, government. to have, take the steer (of a country, etc.). Of the presumed literal sense, action of steering, no example is known. In 15–16th centuries senses 1 and 2b are not easy to distinguish. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] steera900 governaila1382 governancea1393 controlment1495 moderation1526 control1583 command1642 whip-handle1861 whip-hold1895 a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. v. 278 Þætte nænig biscop oðres biscopes scire inswoge, ac þætte he þoncful sy steore [v.r. styre] him þæs bibodenan folces [L. sed contentus sit gubernatione creditae sibi plebis]. c1000 Ælfric in Old Eng. Hom. I. 304 Fela beoð stuntnyssa þær nan steor [c1175 Lamb. Hom. 117 steore] ne bið. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3418 Ilc of ðe .v. steres-men Vnder hem welden in stere tgen. 1423 Kingis Quair 130 Tak him before In all thy gouernance, That in his hand the stere has of ȝou all. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. viii. 127 My son Pallas..Exhort I wald to tak the steyr on hand. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) ii. l. 875 in Shorter Poems (1967) 60 Caliope..sche of nobillis fatis hes the stere [1579 Edinb. steir] Till wryt thair worschyp, victory and prowes. 1558 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1873) III. 21 To haue the steir reull and gouernance of the toun. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 179 How sune he began to tak the steir of the Realme. < as lemmas |
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