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单词 to hold house
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to hold house
a. to hold house: to maintain a house or household (with, for a person); to keep house (see Phrases 4b(b)). Also figurative. Now rare. [Compare the phrasal verbs in other Germanic languages cited in the etymological note at householding n., and also Middle French tenir maison (c1350).]
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a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Hous-wif Thar als hoswif held scho house.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. l. 138 (MED) He was a nygarde..a wrecched hous he helde.
?1566–7 G. Buchanan Opinion Reformation Univ. St. Andros in Vernacular Writings (1892) 6 And he be maryit, or hald hous out of the college.
c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) l. 52 Þat wicked folke [sc. Carmelites] wymmen bi-traieþ, And bigileþ hem of her good wiþ glauerynge wordes, And þerwiþ holden her hous in harlotes werkes.
1653 D. Dickson Brief Explic. First 50 Psalms xlvii. 323 He delivered them out of Egypt, setled them in Canaan, held house among them in a Tabernacle [etc.].
a1734 R. Wodrow Coll. Lives Reformers Church Scotl. (1848) II. ii. 74 [In] 1595, the Session order the names of single women, holding house together, to be taken up.
1901 E. Castle Light of Scarthey (new ed.) ix. 86 The long plaintive figure of his maiden sister, who had held house for him..ever since the death..of his..wife.
2000 O. Vésteinsson Christianization Iceland v. 207 Sometimes it is said that he [sc. a priest] held house together with the resident householder.
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