单词 | to the grave |
释义 | > as lemmasto the grave a. Regarded as the natural destination or final resting-place of every one. Hence sometimes put for: The condition or state of being dead, death. †to the grave: till death. (to bear a mark) to one's grave: all one's life. to find one's grave: to meet one's death. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > state or condition of deathOE homeOE restOE sleepOE powderc1300 corruptiona1340 gravec1380 darkness1535 silence1535 tomb1559 iron sleep1573 another country1597 iron slumber1604 deadness1607 deadlihead1612 deadlihood1659 nothingness1813 unlivingness1914 post-mortemity1922 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 17 Crist sparid not to visyte pore men..in þe colde greue. 14.. Songs & Carols 15th C. (Percy Soc.) 66 Thei wyl gyffe a man a mark that he xal ber it to hys grafe. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xlii. E Yf eny mysfortune shulde happen vnto him..ye shulde bringe my graye hayre with sorowe downe vnto the graue. 1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant vi. 39 Both Rich and Poore are equal'd in the Grave. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 168 My course came next, though not to die, yet to goe neere the Graue. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. ii. iii. 238 France, where he soone found his grave. 1674 tr. P. M. de la Martinière New Voy. Northern Countries 113 And thinking by bleeding and purgation to recover their Patients, sent many of them to the Grave. 1709 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs (ed. 2) i. 71 There are no Acts of Pardon past In the cold Grave to which we haste. 1723 Pres. State Russia II. 129 I am, to the Grave, full of good Wishes towards you. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xi. 169 The Savages..discharged an Arrow, which wounded me deeply on the inside of my left Knee (I shall carry the Mark to my Grave). 1726 J. Dyer Grongar Hill in D. Lewis Misc. Poems 228 Between the Cradle and the Grave. 1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) vi. iii I cannot thank Thee in the Grave. 1751 T. Gray Elegy ix. 7 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 49 Birth and the grave, that are not as they were. < as lemmas |
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