单词 | to sentence to death |
释义 | > as lemmasto sentence (also judge, †deem, etc.) to death (b) Modifying verbs expressing judicial sentencing or punishment, as to sentence (also judge, †deem, etc.) to death, and corresponding agent nouns. Cf. sense 1d.See also to put to death at Phrases 1d, condemn to death at condemn v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > sentence [verb (transitive)] > sentence to death to sentence (also judge, deem, etc.) to deathOE to escry him, them, etc. to or unto death1477 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) i. 188 Ða nam þæt iudeisce folc micelne andan ongean his lare, & smeadon hu hi mihton hine to deaðe gedon. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 18 Hig genyþeriað hyne to deaþe [L. condemnabunt eum morte]. c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 36 Beatest us & bindest, & to deað fordemest. a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 2041 (MED) Hi dampnede him to deþe. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 127 Þe date..Steuen to dede was dight. a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 35 Weryn the Citteseynnes to deth demyd. 1560 J. Knox et al. Buke Discipline in J. Knox Wks. (1848) II. 231 For suche..the Civill swearde aught to punische to death. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 592 The putters of Iesus and of his disciples to death. 1640 D. Lupton Glory of their Times 538 By the hand of envy and tyranny they were judged to death. 1682 J. Flavell Righteous Man's Refuge in Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) 179 They were sentenced to death. ?1793 T. Priestley New Hist. Life Jesus Christ xiii. 320 Upon a full hearing, ripe deliberation, and exquisitely-judicial proceeding, we have sentenced this malefactor to death. 1829 P. Allwood Key Rev. St. John II. xii. 551 That Inquisitorial power, which..had been ‘the accuser’, judge, tormentor, and putter-to-death, of so many of the innocent sons and daughters of Britain. 1909 Chatterbox 226/2 I saw..all the noble polity of England arrayed to judge a boy to death for a five-minutes' prank. 2000 Big Issue 17 July 12/3 However, within a year he had been found guilty of murder, in what many felt was a fit-up, and sentenced to death. < as lemmas |
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