| 单词 | to marry and settle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto marry and settle b. intransitive. ‘To establish a domestic state’ (Johnson); chiefly in to marry and settle, to settle in life (see life n. 12f). Also to settle down. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence wickc897 telda1325 buildc1340 nestlea1382 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 to take one's lodgec1475 reside1490 inhabit1548 to settle one's rest1562 to sit down1579 to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584 to set (up) one's rest1590 nest1591 to set down one's rest1591 roost1593 inherit1600 habituate1603 seat1612 to take up (one's) residencea1626 settle1627 pitch1629 fix1638 locate1652 to marry and settle1718 domesticate1768 domiciliate1815 to hang up one's hat1826 domicile1831 to stick one's stakes1872 homestead1877 to put down roots1882 to hang one's hat1904 localize1930 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)] > marry and settle to marry and settle1718 to settle down1869 1718 M. Prior Alma ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 340 As people marry now, and settle, Fierce love abates his usual mettle. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 102 Why don't you marry, and settle? 1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater 29 My landlady..had but lately married away and ‘settled’ (as such people express it) for life. 1830 M. T. Sadler Law of Population I. 564 Their very object in leaving their native countries is to settle in life, a phrase that needs no explanation. 1869 J. Greenwood Seven Curses London ii. 19 At sixteen..the pair embark in housekeeping and ‘settle down’. 1891 G. Chamier Philosopher Dick v. 120 ‘Didn't I tell you he was a looking hout for some crib to settle down.’ ‘Settle down, indeed! What do you mean?’ ‘Why, he's about to get spliced.’ 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married Pref. in Doctor's Dilemma 118 They had all, as they called it, settled down, like balloons that had lost their lifting margin of gas. 1928 E. O'Neill Strange Interlude vi. 230 He looks pretty dissipated..too many women..ought to get married and settle down. < as lemmas |
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