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单词 to term of life
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for (also †to) term of (a person's) life
P9. Chiefly Law. for (also †to) term of (a person's) life: as long as the person in question lives; until the person's death. Now historical.Formerly also without for or to. [After Anglo-Norman a terme de vie, a terme de sa vie (both late 13th cent. or earlier), pur terme de vie, pur terme de sa vie (both late 14th cent. or earlier); compare post-classical Latin ad terminum vite to term of life (from 13th cent. in British sources).]
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life
life-dayOE
year-daysOE
timeOE
dayOE
lifeOE
life's timeOE
livelihoodOE
yearOE
lifetimea1300
life-whilea1300
for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325
coursec1384
livingc1390
voyage1390
agea1398
life's dayc1425
thread1447
racea1450
living daysc1450
natural life1461
lifeness1534
twist1568
leasec1595
span1599
clew1615
marcha1625
peregrination1653
clue1684
stamen1701
life term1739
innings1772
lifelong1814
pass-through1876
inning1885
natural1891
life cycle1915
puff1967
the world > life > source or principle of life > [adverb] > in one's life > for remaining period of one's life
for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325
for life1548
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 60 Pasture þat is in tenauntes hond..to terme of liue, oþer of ȝeres, oþer in feo itailled.
1376 in L. Morsbach Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1923) 2 (MED) Þe forsede londes fulle in-to water Dunes hond and his heires, and in pes held he terme of his lif, and his heires after him, with-oute chalenges of any man.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 171 And there he lyueth in ioye and in honour Terme of his lyue.
1504 W. Copulldyke Will in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 327 I will that my wyffe hawe hyre Iwnter without eny interrupcion terme of hyre lyfe.
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. iii The husbande hathe estate in the speciall tayle, and the wyfe but for terme of lyfe.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 725 That Henry the Sixth should enjoy the right of the kingdome for tearme of life only.
1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. iii. 34 What men draw from their education generally sticks by them for term of life.
1830 Laws Commonw. for Governm. Mass. State Prison 13 Confinement to hard labor, for term of life or years.
1877 G. Hill Hist. Acct. Plantation in Ulster i. 32 The castles, hereditaments, and lands, hereby appointed to Sir Tirlagh, excepted only for term of his life.
1955 Econ. Hist. Rev. 7 351 William Sergeant of Wolveston had a licence to lease three of his fifteen acres, one in each field, for term of his life.
2016 N. G. Jones in M. Godfrey Law & Authority in Brit. Legal Hist. ii. 24 Sir John Wilshire..provided in his will that his widow should enjoy the premises for term of her life.
extracted from termn.
to term of life
a. Indicating a final limit in time, or the end of a period: Till, until; often correlative to from: see from prep. 3 (Formerly sometimes preceding an adverb of time, e.g. now, then: cf. from prep., adv., and conj. Phrases b, till prep. 5b) †Also rarely expressing an extent in time: For, during, till the end of (obsolete); esp. in to term of life (see term n. Phrases 9).
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > antecedence [preposition] > until
toc1000
fortc1200
tillc1330
hentc1426
pending1837
'til1939
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 356 He worhte his weorc to seofon nihtum.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 87 Fram þan halie hester dei boð italde fifti daȝa to þisse deie.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 190 Fram þe biginning of þe world to þe time þat now is.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 37 To þe daie þat Noie wente into þe ship.
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt 276 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 304 Scho saw hyme neuir to þan.
c1490 W. Caxton Rule St. Benet lxx. 139 Children to the xv. yere of age shall stande euer vndir..discipline.
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aivv Ye matynes of our lady, whiche kepte her to then.
1582 L. Kirby Let. 10 Jan. in W. Allen Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom sig. B5v Yours to death and after death.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 160. ¶4 From the Beginning of the World to its Consummation.
1799 W. Wordsworth Lucy Gray xv Some maintain that to this day She is a living child.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 36 The parliament was prorogued to the tenth of February.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. v. 41 The business hours..were from ten to six.
extracted from toprep.conj.adv.
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