单词 | to take for gospel |
释义 | > as lemmasto take for (†a, the) gospel 4. Something as ‘true as the gospel’; a statement to be implicitly received. Also †with a, no, and to take for (†a, the) gospel. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [noun] > true statement, correct account, truth > true as holy writ gospela1250 scripture1573 evangel1604 gospel-truth1833 a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1268 For-thi seide Alfred swithe wel And his worde was goddspel, That [etc.]. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1265 God wot I wende, O lady bright Criseyde, That every word was gospel that ye seyde! 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) vi. xiii. 254/1 Yet what they saye, the people taketh it for a gospell. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ii. sig. G All is not gospell that thou dooest speake. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Henry VI. xxviii Whose wordes to be no gospel tho, I to my griefe haue found. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 95v The only trial that a Lady requireth of hir louer, it is this,..that..euery gloase [be] a gospell. 1625 in S. R. Gardiner Documents Impeachm. Duke of Buckingham (1889) 212 All the Cardinal sayes is not gospel, for two moneth's pay is yet behinde. 1678 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 133 Oates was encouraged, and everything he affirmed taken for gospel. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iv. 16 She took them [her dreams] all for Gospel. 1807 G. Crabbe Library (rev. ed.) in Poems 147 And all was Gospel that a Monk could dream. 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI vi. 64 Those holier mysteries, which the wise and just Receive as gospel. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. i. 92 Offered me two hundred and fifty dollars—gospel, by the living jingo! 1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 74 It's gospel every word. < as lemmas |
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