单词 | to lie on one's hands |
释义 | > as lemmasto lie on one's hands 8. To remain unworked, unused, untouched, or undiscovered. Often with complement, as to lie barren, hid, waste (see also fallow adj.2, lea adj.); also in to lie on one's hands, to lie at a stand.Cf. sense 4, where the subject is a person or a personification. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > remain unused [verb (intransitive)] atliec1000 lie1377 to lie by the wall (or walls)1579 to lie by1642 sit1839 society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > not sell > remain unsold to lie on one's hands1548 to go (or have been) a begginga1593 stick1729 the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > be unproductive [verb (intransitive)] to lie at a stand1622 to thresh (over) straw1844 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. vi. 165 Worth neuere plente amonge þe poeple þer-while my plow liggeth. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6841 Your land yee sal sau seuen yeir... þe seuend ye sal it lat lij still. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxiijv Wherfore all brode Clothes, Kerseis, & Cottons, laye on their handes. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clv Through our mens wrytinges, sondrye articles are called agayne to lyght, whiche laye before hidde in darkenes. a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. D3v Letts goe and make cleane our bootes which lie foule vpon our handes. 1622 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 211 This hath made matters to lie a little at a stand. a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) Ep. to Rdr. sig. A6 This worke hath lyen above twice five [years]. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iii. 88 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Turris, an ancient City..which had been sack'd by Barbarians, and layen long wast. a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 68 To make them buy their currantes (which lay vpon their handes). 1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life i. 9 'Tis pitty, that any thing of Christ should lye hid from his people! 1862 W. E. Gladstone in Daily News 26 Apr. 2/2 Rarely, within the living memory, has so much of skill lain barren. to lie in (or †on) one's hands c. to lie in (a person): to rest or centre in him; to depend upon him, be in his power (to do). Now chiefly in as far as in (me, etc.) lies. Also, to lie in one's power, to lie in (or †on) one's hands. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > be under authority [verb (intransitive)] > be dependent to lie in one's powerc1374 depend1548 to hang on, upon, of (a person's) sleeve1548 to lie in (or on) one's handsa1593 to fall upon ——?1672 society > authority > subjection > be subject to [verb (transitive)] > be dependent on to lie inc1374 to stand to ——c1449 the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > be caused by or result from [verb (transitive)] > depend on to stand in ——OE to lie inc1374 to stand upon ——a1393 to turn on ——a1413 to stand by ——a1450 lie1590 set1597 suspend1638 to turn upon ——1652 condition1868 ride1950 c1374 G. Chaucer Compl. Mars 184 Sith hit lythe in his myght. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 965 Þer-for loueliche ladi in þe lis al min hope. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 431 Hit lyth in my grace, Wheþer þei deye oþer deye nat. c1440 Generydes 3109 I wote right wele it lithe in me The Sowdon to destroye. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ii. iii Aske what ye wil and ye shall haue it, and hit lye in my power to yeue hit. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxi. 243 It lyeth now in you to do with hym at your pleasure. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cclvv Thei promised the kyng, to doo all that in theim laie with their frendes. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. I4v Fauor him my lord, as much as lieth in you. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lx. 136 The Church as much as in her lieth, wilfully casteth away their soules. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. ii. 4 Correction lieth in those hands, Which made the fault that we cannot correct. View more context for this quotation 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Gg1 To me..that do desire as much as lyeth in my Penne [etc.] . View more context for this quotation a1613 T. Overbury Wife (1614) sig. D6v Women, though they weaker bee..,yet on their hands The Chastitie of men doth often lie. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 176 As much as in you hath lyen. 1662 King Charles II in J. M. Cartwright Madame (1894) 121 I am sure I have done all that lies in my power. 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. iv. 226 All the Hopes of the Republic lay in an old Man just taken from the Plough. 1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 9 Resolved, so far as in him lay, to root out the Christian Faith. 1885 Ld. Tennyson Tiresias Only in thy virtue lies The saving of our Thebes. < as lemmas |
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