| 单词 | to make repair to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make repair (to) a. The action of going or travelling to a place or person. Chiefly in to make repair (to): to make one's way, go. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] > resorting or repairing to a place repair?a1400 resortc1425 resorting?a1439 repairing1632 gang1645 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 7964 Þer wonyng is in þe eyre, [but] vmwhile to þe erth þei mak repeire. 1538 D. Lindsay Complaynte & Test. Popiniay sig. f. iii Make no repayre, where poetes bene present... Be neuer sene besyde none other boke With kyng nor quene, with lorde nor man of gude. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 118 Diuers kings and princes, who made repaire to Rome with sutes and supplications. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 265 Then to my father's house I make repair, with some small glimpse of hope to find her there. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxix. 42 Then thy spruce citizen, wash'd artizan, And smug apprentice..To Hampstead, Brentford, Harrow make repair. a1850 D. G. Rossetti Dante & Circle (1874) i. 158 A lover..to his lady must make meek repair. 1907 E. S. Dudley Mil. Law & Procedure of Courts-martial xxxi. 361 The sickness which will prevent repair to the place of rendezvous accrues prior to the necessity for repair thereto. to make (also have) repair (to) a. Originally Scottish. Frequent or habitual visiting of or travel to a place; resort. Frequently in to make (also have) repair (to). Now only in place (also house) of repair at Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > haunting or resorting > [noun] sokenc1000 hauntc1330 hauntingc1400 resortc1425 resorting?a1439 recoursea1456 repairc1480 frequentinga1555 frequentation1585 frequentance1593 frequent1631 frequency1642 frequentage1814 c1480 (a1400) St. Anastasia 176 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 412 Þe prefet yddire had repare. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 178 He saw, or persauit him mak grete repaire till his hous. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) i. l. 1657 Qwhar common accesse of repayr Men mycht haf to þat figoure fayr. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 150 She exhorted repaire to the Churche. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 38 Flatterers..alwaies make their repaire thether where profite is to be reaped. 1638 T. Heywood Wise Woman iii. i, in Wks. (1874) V. 314 By his oft repaire..your good name May be by Neighbours hardly censur'd of. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 184 Peter Heylin..was furnished with Books..by his repair to Bodlies Library. 1775 H. Season Speculum Anni Oct. Nineveh; whither all Malefactors make repair. < as lemmas |
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