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单词 to redd the marches
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to redd the marches
3. transitive. To delineate or fix exactly (a border or boundary); to mark or set the borders of (a place). Chiefly in to redd the marches (see march n.3 4). Also figurative. Cf. rede v.2 4, rid v. Phrases 4. Now rare.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > form continuous boundary [verb (intransitive)] > determine boundary
ride1455
to rid (the) marches1466
to redd the marchesa1500
butt1523
to beat the bounds1570
to run the line or lines1639
procession1724
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) viii. l. 4018 Þe þride castel..Dame Cristiane þe Bruys stoutly Helde wiþe knychtis..Þat reddit about þaim weil þe meris.
1532 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 124 All men..to be reddy one fut and hors one Mydsymer day to red and vesy our common.
1698 J. Donaldson Postscript Husbandry Anatomiz'd 18 And factors accompts running on in confusion, so that its very hard to redd marches with them.
1739 R. Erskine Gospel-compulsion 21 A Power..of..redding Marches wisely between the Kingdom of Christ, and the Kingdom of Caesar.
1835 T. Rose Rambles 163 (Northumbld. Gloss.) In this neighbourhood—between Keilder and Larriston—the precise boundaries of each kingdom are ‘ill to red’.
1859 N. Brit. Rev. Aug. 210 The attempt of the chemist to redd the marches between the animal and vegetable kingdoms.
1924 Philos. Rev. 33 229 Perhaps one who cannot accept without reservations either Mr. Bradley's Absolutism or Professor Alexander's Realism may do something to ‘redd the marches’.
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