| 单词 | to school down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto school down to school down transitive. To subdue or reduce (a person, etc.) by training or circumstance. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] wieldOE i-weldeOE onwaldOE overwieldlOE amaistera1250 underlaya1300 daunt1303 underbringc1320 yoke?c1335 undercasta1340 afaitec1350 faite1362 subjecta1382 to make subjectc1384 distraina1400 underlouta1400 underthewa1400 underset1422 subjectc1460 subjuge?1473 submise?1473 dompt1480 suppedit?1483 to keep under1486 abandon1487 bandon?a1500 suppeditatec1545 to bring under1563 reduce1569 assubject1579 overpower1597 envassal1606 assubjugate1609 vassal1612 subact1619 vassalize1647 vassalate1659 to school down1818 to ride herd on (also over)1895 society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > by training to school down1818 society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject or subdue [verb (reflexive)] subduec1425 vassal1615 to school down1867 1818 Eclectic Rev. July 30 If this green and hasty age..would..suffer itself to be schooled down into a little more of the carefulness, and laboriousness, and seriousness, which distinguished times that are passed. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 3) II. ii. 63 Lord Raglan..was so schooled down by long years of flat office labour that it shocked him to see a man..armed to the teeth. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lii. 90 At home she had schooled herself down into quiescence. 1908 P. Fitzgerald Shakespearean Representation v. 83 The performers..had not been schooled down to inanity, or oppressed by the overpowering presence of an actor-manager. 1938 R. Davies & C. Hunt Eng. Artists 1600 to 1851 xii. 136 By a wiser course of study he might have schooled down his imagination. 2004 D. A. Reisman Schumpeter's Market 268 Today's thinkers effectively perceive that which they have been schooled down to see. < as lemmas |
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