| 单词 | to strike dead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto strike dead a. transitive. Of God: To visit with lightning, esp. as a punishment. Also, to strike dead. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [verb (transitive)] > punish smitelOE punisha1325 scourgec1384 chasten1526 strike1577 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vii. xvii. 133 (note) Therefore God strooke Iulianus image from heauen with lightening and rent it in peeces. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 64 Either heauen with lightning strike the murtherer dead, Or earth gape open wide and eate him quicke. View more context for this quotation 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 188 Then for his crown th' old trembling souldier took An helmet, and at great Jove's altar strook, Fell like an ox. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 386 But he, the King of Heav'n,..launching from the Sky His writhen Bolt,..Down to the deep Abyss the flaming Felon strook. < as lemmas |
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