| 单词 | to perform, seek, spend, work, and esp take wreak |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto perform, seek, spend, work, and esp. take (…) wreak b. In the phrase to perform, seek, spend, work, and esp. take (…) wreak. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > inflict retributive punishment [verb (intransitive)] wreakc825 to do, have, nim (= take), ta, or take wrake (of, on, or upon)?a900 to do (also take) wrack (on one)12.. to do, have, make, nim, seek, and esp. take wrechec1200 to take (also nim) vengeance1297 to perform, seek, spend, work, and esp. take (…) wreakc1330 visita1382 vengec1400 revengec1485 avenge1535 hevenc1540 the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > take or execute revenge [verb (intransitive)] wreakc825 to do, have, nim (= take), ta, or take wrake (of, on, or upon)?a900 to do (also take) wrack (on one)12.. to do, have, make, nim, seek, and esp. take wrechec1200 to take (also nim) vengeance1297 wrakea1300 to perform, seek, spend, work, and esp. take (…) wreakc1330 visita1382 vengec1400 revengec1485 avenge1535 hevenc1540 resent1612 exact1858 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Petyt MS.) Prol. 202 When god toke wreke of Caym synne. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 1156 Þat I sal take wreke on þe. c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine v. 61 God..on the puple tho took ful grete wreke. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxv. 329 I saide that he shuld..of youre warkys take wreke. 1525 W. Tyndale in Wks. (1849) II. 229 No man should avenge himself, or seek wreak, no, not by the law. 1576 G. Whetstone Garden of Vnthriftinesse 72 in Rocke of Regard Sith fortune threates, to woorke our wreake of ioy, By sowsing of our ship, in seas of yre. 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xviii. xi. 349/1 No creature is more wreakful, nor more feruent to take wreak than is the Bee when he is wrath. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 162 A huswife of Millan..wrought her wreake vpon the fruite of her womb. 1613 G. Chapman Reuenge Bussy D'Ambois iii. sig. E4 Dull and drossie in performing Wreake of the deare bloud of my matchlesse Brother. 1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 308 Enough of wreak is spent; A passage hath been made among the foes. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. xix. 189 None murdered the damsel but I; take her wreak on me this moment. < as lemmas |
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