| 单词 | to give in hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give in hand 5. Of a parent or guardian: To sanction the marriage of (a daughter or female ward). Now only more explicitly to give in marriage; formerly also †to give in hand. Cf. to give away at Phrasal verbs 1. [A prominent Common Germanic sense: compare Old English gifta plural, marriage: see gift n.1] ΚΠ a855 Anglo-Saxon Chron. an. 853 Ond þæs ofer Eastron geaf Æþelwulf cyning his dohtor Burgrede cyninge of Wesseaxum on Merce. 1154 [see ]. a1300 [see γ. forms]. a1375 [see β. forms]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12694 Was anna giuen to salomas. c1440 [see α. forms]. a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 934 I have a dowghttyr þat ys me dere..I wille geve here in [hand]. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII 22 Because the lady was of that age, that she coulde neither be geven nor yet taken in mariage. 1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 30 Angels..marrie not, nor are in mariage giuen. 1600 2nd Pt. Marchants Daughter of Bristow Her gentle maister she desirde, to be her father, & at church to giue her then. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 257 Take not a wife of another Law nor give your daughters to men of another Law. 1872 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 228 He would not give his daughter in marriage to a stranger. to give in hand 41. In various obsolete uses, where put or set would now be used; e.g. to give (an) end, to give a period to, to give a date to, to give a stop to. Also to give in hand, to give fire to (see fire n. and int. Phrases 2c(b)). ΚΠ a1475 [see α. forms]. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xvii. 396 Reynawd..wyll not gyve noo yrens to your nevewe. 1490 [see γ. forms]. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B Tyme gyuethe ende to that suffrethe ende. 1595 [see γ. forms]. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 253 His death gave an end to that warre in the yeere 1477. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iii. 160 To give date unto that which hath..afflicted me. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. i. 132 To give some stop to those Atheistical and Epicurean Opinions. a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 7 The imperceptible course of nature..may..give an end to our businesses and lives together. 1698 Spelman's Hist. Sacrilege 121 King Henry I..dying afterward without Issue Male, in the year 1135, gave a period to this Norman Family. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 108 Placing..Barrels of Powder at the Foot of them, to which they give Fire, by Trains laid for that purpose. < as lemmas |
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