| 单词 | to put, set, stretch, etc on tenter(s |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put, set, stretch, etc. on (the) tenter(s a. to put, set, stretch, etc. on (the) tenter(s, = to set on tenterhooks; to rack: see tenterhook n. 2a, 2b Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > misapply > apply or use beyond its province overstretcha1425 to put, set, stretch, etc. on (the) tenter(sa1533 stretch1553 to put, set, strain, stretch on the tenterhooks1583 outstretch1597 strain1597 tenter1611 overdraw1889 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Cc.ijv Ye haue strayned it on the tentours, and drawen it on the perche. 1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 66 But the Papistes haue set Christes wordes vppon the tenters and stretched them owt so farre, that they make his wordes to signyfy as pleaseth them, not as he ment. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E8 They inhance the rents, & set their fines on tenter. 1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 133 Nor ought the conscience in these to be set upon the rack and tainter. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiv. 341 I have pity'd him many a time, when I have seen him stretched on the Tenters to keep thee in Countenance. < as lemmas |
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