单词 | to set foot |
释义 | > as lemmasto set (or put) (one's) foot a. to set (or put) (one's) foot. extracted from footn.int. (a) With in, on, etc. To walk in or on; to enter, go into. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] stepOE bistepa1250 to set footc1300 treada1400–50 foota1425 trade1547 stride1596 ambulate1598 purmeinea1614 walka1628 conculcate1657 to tread the ground1691 toddle1819 sashay1878 c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 134 Of schup hi gunne funde & setten fout to grunde. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 38 Hoold cloos thy mouth..The deuel of helle sette his foot ther yn. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7267 (MED) In þe kirke ȝarde hir fote sho sett. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 222 I shall never sette foote there. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 46 It was a foule shame for a phylosophier to sette his foote into any hous where bawderie wer kepte. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 251/2 Sins which haue set in foote. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 95 When I from France set foot at Rauenspurgh. View more context for this quotation a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) 81 In some places of the same they have put foote. 1648 Moderate No. 6 47 The Informer saies, Prince Rupert is with the Prince, but intends not to set foot on English ground. 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies vi. 86 This is the talkingst place that ever I set my foot in. 1738 E. A. Burgis Ann. Church II. 436 He had no sooner put foot in the palace, but the young prince's fever sensibly abated. 1778 London Mag. July 302/2 Not to set foot..on the enemies territories, until every part of a fair resurrender of us shall have been punctually performed. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. v. 36 Since first thou didst set foot within the city. 1875 T. W. Higginson Young Folks' Hist. U.S. v. 38 Columbus was not the first to set foot on the mainland. 1907 Trans. & Proc. Japan Soc. 8 314 In 1858 there was not a living Englishman who could say that he had ever set foot in Japan. 1943 A. Moorehead Year of Battle i. 22 Few set foot in Egypt without contracting ‘Gyppy Tummy’ which is a mild stomach disorder lasting usually a couple of days. 2014 P. Earle Bubble Wrap Boy xvi. 85 You won't set foot in that skatepark again... D'you understand me? (b) With out of, out, etc. To walk or go out of; to leave. ΚΠ 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxviiv Whom, if you permitte once to set but one foote, out of your power..there is no mortall creature able..to deliuer hym from death. 1578 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) Pedes de lecto, to put his feete out of. 1602 W. Watson tr. A. Arnauld Le Franc Discours 5 Who grewe to more puritie of speech, ciuilitie of manners, and conformitie of minde to the geneall state and gouernment, then since that time they haue done, neuer setting foote out of theyr seuerall Countries. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 180 Now they..befooled themselves for setting a Foot out of doors in that Path. 1700 T. Brown et al. tr. P. Scarron Comical Romance ii. xix. 260 in tr. P. Scarron Whole Comical Wks. She was resolv'd next Day to shut her self up in a Nunnery, thence never to set Foot out again as long as she lived. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 155 I was never to set my Foot off this Island. 1798 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Southern Counties II. 263 They..live chiefly among themselves; seldom making their appearance, even at the capital; and rarely setting a foot off the Island. 1863 C. G. Frances Ambassador's Wife (new ed.) 56 What possible excuse..have we French, for ever setting foot out of our own glorious country? 1892 Lippincott's monthly Mag. Sept. 292 Make a law that Pio Pico can never put foot out of Los Angeles again. 1914 National Geographic Mag. 615/1 They never once set foot off of what came to be Turkish soil. 1999 News of World 26 Sept. 23/3 The elderly..never daring to set foot out of homes that have become prisons. < as lemmas |
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