| 单词 | to sit adown |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sit adown † to sit adown Obsolete (archaic in later use). extracted from sitv. intransitive. To sit down; = to sit down 1 at Phrasal verbs 1, to sit down 3 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > sit down sitOE to sit adownc1275 to sit downc1300 to make one's seata1400 to set adowna1400 to set downc1400 seat1596 pitch1796 roost1816 take a pew1898 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6467 Þe swike set [c1300 Otho sat] adun. alse he wolde holden run. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 1088 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 137 Bi-fore ech ymage he op aros, and eft he sat a-doun a-kne. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (1874) l. 862 Thanne wolde she sitte adoun..And seyn right thus, with sorweful sikes colde. 1554 Hawes' Pastime of Pleasure (new ed.) xxxviii. Bb.ii. But la bell Pucell, full right gentilly Did sit adowne, by a windowe side. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week iv. 21 Upon a rising Bank I sat adown, Then doff'd my Shoe. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 89 He sat adown..amid the most awful part of the Ruins. 1891 W. Morris Poems by Way (1896) 194 There on the grass they sat adown. < as lemmas |
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