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单词 to stand to stern
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to stand to stern
d. In various phrases, with literal or figurative meaning. to be, sit, at the stern, to stand to stern, to conduct, guide, hold, keep, possess, rule, steer, turn the stern: to steer, govern, control, to occupy the seat of government. to take in hand the stern, to assume the government. Obsolete.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > steer ship of state [verb (intransitive)] > assume the government
to take in hand the stern?1553
1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 109 Ne were God the giour, and kept the stern,..al schulde wende to wrak.
c1500 Three Kings' Sons (1895) 60 Some [shippes]..had neither saile ne maste, nor noman so hardy that durst conduyte the steerne.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xv. sig. p.viv Kynge Edgar kept the storne, as most principall Eche prince had an ore to labour with all.
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) xcviii. 83 Those handes..that..rule the sterne of my pore lyff.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 6 Fye on hym that would take vpon hym to sitte and holde the stierne in a shyppe, hauyng none experience in ye feate of marinershyp.
a1547 Earl of Surrey Girt in Guiltless Gown in Poems 6 How som to guyd a shyppe in stormes styckes not to take the stearne.
?1553 Respublica (1952) i. iii. 10 I shall tell Respublica ye can beste governe, bee not ye than skeymishe to take in hand the stern.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 12 The father, held the sterne of his whole obedience.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 152 Wee satt at ye sterne, and had the weale publique in our rule and gouernement.
1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 6v Construe al thinges to the best, turne the stearne the best waye.
1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Scotl. (new ed.) 356/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The male line..descended from the women, haue sometime possessed the sterne of Scotland.
a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. D 3 Pilot..if thou hadst no greater cunning in stirring of the stearne.
1593 T. Churchyard Challenge 6 In greatest stormes, I stoutly stood to sterne, And turnd about, the shippe to winne the winde.
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) vi. 338 He that guideth by his providence the sterne of mens soules.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. i. 177 I intend to..sit at chiefest Sterne of publique Weale. View more context for this quotation
1625 in S. R. Gardiner Deb. House of Commons (1873) 87 He that was then at the sterne fetch't many sighes before he fetch' it aboute.
a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1711) III. 323 We are in a more special manner to pray for such as sit at the stern, and are in authority.
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