英语词汇“to hold the stirrup”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to hold the stirrup: lit. in helping a person to mount, esp. as a manifestation of homage or reverence; hence figurative to be subservient.Sometimes with allusion to the rendering of this act of homage by certain emperors to the pope.

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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > attend as servant [verb (intransitive)] > hold the stirrup

to hold the stirrup1548

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. lij When the kynge approched, the duke at his lightynge offred to holde his styrope.

1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. i. 54 Hast not thou kist thy hand and held my stirrope?

1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 247 They do but hold the stirrop to their owne destruction.

1636 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 179 It becometh not Christ to hold any man's stirrup.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 228 Opinions hold the stirrup, while vice mounts into the saddle.

1675 E. Wilson Spadacrene Dunelmensis 34 I hold the stirrop to Pyrotechnical Philosophy.

1764 C. Churchill Duellist iii. 33 Who was so mean..That he would..hold a stirrup for the Devil.

1908 J. Gairdner Lollardy I. 49 The fiery Frederic Barbarossa held the stirrup of Pope Alexander III.

单词	to hold the stirrup
释义	> as lemmas to hold the stirrup b. to hold the stirrup: lit. in helping a person to mount, esp. as a manifestation of homage or reverence; hence figurative to be subservient.Sometimes with allusion to the rendering of this act of homage by certain emperors to the pope. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > attend as servant [verb (intransitive)] > hold the stirrup to hold the stirrup1548 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. lij When the kynge approched, the duke at his lightynge offred to holde his styrope. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. i. 54 Hast not thou kist thy hand and held my stirrope? 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 247 They do but hold the stirrop to their owne destruction. 1636 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 179 It becometh not Christ to hold any man's stirrup. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 228 Opinions hold the stirrup, while vice mounts into the saddle. 1675 E. Wilson Spadacrene Dunelmensis 34 I hold the stirrop to Pyrotechnical Philosophy. 1764 C. Churchill Duellist iii. 33 Who was so mean..That he would..hold a stirrup for the Devil. 1908 J. Gairdner Lollardy I. 49 The fiery Frederic Barbarossa held the stirrup of Pope Alexander III. extracted from stirrupn. < as lemmas
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