单词 | to lay in water |
释义 | > as lemmasto lay in water ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail to [verb (transitive)] > have no effect upon > render ineffectual voida1340 mortifyc1390 to lay in water?c1425 frustrate1471 stint1509 mutilatec1570 dead1602 unvirtuate1611 ineffectuate1633 nonplus1640 ?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 41 Her gode fame is leide a water thore. a1450 (?1419–20) Friar Daw's Reply (Digby) l. 41 in P. L. Heyworth Jack Upland (1968) 74 But Iak þouȝ þi questions semen to þee wyse, Ȝit liȝtly a lewid man maye leyen hem a water. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxiv. sig. M Ciuile warres and batayles, wherin infinite people were slayne..the lawes layde in water (as is the prouerbe). 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 4 Either Apollo must haue plaied the bone setter, or euery occupation beene layde a water. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xcv. 579 If I lende him money nowe, it is layde a water, I loose a whole yeares occupying of it. c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) l. 782 (MED) Now þe harlottes han hid thilke rewle, And, for the loue of oure lorde, haue leyd hire in water. a1607 A. Dent Opening of Heauen Gates (1610) 97 Haue not these wise men laid true religion in water and sacrifized their zeale to reason, as if she were some Goddesse? < as lemmas |
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