单词 | to say over |
释义 | > as lemmasto say over to say over transitive. To repeat or recite from memory. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > recite [verb (transitive)] sayOE record?c1225 reckonc1350 renderc1380 repeat1451 recite1481 to say over1560 bespout1575 decline1597 to call over1674 the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > memorize, learn by heart [verb (transitive)] > repeat from memory to say over1560 rote?1606 a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xii. 23 Y shal make this prouerbe for to reste, nether opynli, or euery where, it shal be seide ouer [L.V. be seid comynli, L. vulgo dicetur] in Israel. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxxj Let the poorer sorte oftymes saye ouer theyr Pater noster, and after receyue the Sacrament. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 160 Or that a Man in Anger is as Wise as he, that hath said ouer the foure and twenty Letters. 1680 R. Baxter Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet xxxvi. 60 It is lawful to hear an ignorant raw Lad, that saith over a dry Sermon as a Boy saith his Lesson. 1734 J. Wesley Let. 15 Jan. (1931) I. 152 I take religion to be, not the bare saying over so many prayers, morning and evening..but a constant ruling of soul. 1852 Tracts for Parochial Use VI. No. 176. 6 These thoughts, I say, are what a Christian man ought to have when he is saying over the Lord's Prayer. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 47 Doris made a comic rhyme of it, And said it over to me. 1902 F. M. Crawford Cecilia xviii. 270 She knew all the fourteenth canto of the ‘Paradise’,..and said it over. 2006 J. Carey What Good are Arts? ii. vii. 245 Learn a poem by heart and you have it for ever. You never again have to consult a text. You can say it over to yourself in the small hours. < as lemmas |
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