单词 | to look forth |
释义 | > as lemmasto look forth to look forth intransitive. To look out, esp. from a window or other vantage point, on to a view or vista. Also figurative with reference to an immaterial or future prospect; cf. to look forward at Phrasal verbs 1. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look forth or out to look forthOE to look outa1393 outlook1888 OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John xx. 11 Inclinauit se et prospexit in monumentum : gebeg hia seolfe & giorne sceode uel locade forð in ðæm byrgenne. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 1686 (MED) Sche loketh forth as doth a More. a1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 294 In þe dawnyng I lay..in my bed al naked And lokid forþ, for I was wakid. 1498 Interpr. Names Goddis & Goddesses (de Worde) sig. Ciiiv/1 Then loked I forth as doctryne me bad. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 49 I salbe laith to lat him le quhill I may luke furtht. 1569 ‘L. Avale’ Commem. Edmonde Boner ix. sig. C.ij One morne betime I loked forth, as ofte as I did before. 1611 Bible (King James) Song of Sol. ii. 9 He looketh forth..at the windowe. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 209 Through the Firey Pillar and the Cloud God looking forth will trouble all his Host. View more context for this quotation 1728 R. Erskine Saving Sight 67 He stands looking forth at the Windows of Ordinances. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vii. 296 My soul..looked forth, though at a distance, to some future dawning. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. i. 4 The warder..from old Baliol's tower looks forth. 1885 J. H. Dell Dawning Grey, Songs of Surges 97 I stood looking forth o'er the surges,—Looking forth o'er their squadrons of snow. 1908 Michigan Alumnus July 442/2 He looked forth to the legal profession as the one ambition of his life. 1968 Life 5 Apr. 24/1 From behind a plastic mask, a young American spaceman hurtling to Jupiter looks forth, courageous but uncertain. 2006 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 9 July e5 That preternatural eye of Sauron, looking forth from Mordor when Frodo dons the Ring. < as lemmas |
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