| 单词 | to strive a vie |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto strive a vie a. To contend in rivalry; to seek to surpass another or each other; to compete in a trial of strength or skill. Also to strive a vie (see a-vie adv.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)] envyc1369 to try (also play, prove, etc.) masteriesa1393 strive?c1450 pingle?a1513 marrow1567 corrive1586 contend1589 tilt1589 to drop vie(s)1599 to prove conclusions1601 to try (a) conclusion1601 rival1608 wage1608 campa1614 vie1615 buzzle1638 side1641 rival1656 urge1691 compete1796 rivalize1800 ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 732 Þai straue wha first to lande myght wynne. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xlv There as bestes to stryue and drynke auy. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 62 Every towne semyd to me to stryve wyth other as hyt had byn for a vyctory, wych schold be more beutyful & strong. 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things iii. 74 A man..with swyft running, contended and stryued with Dogs, and was hunted of them vnhurt in the woods. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxviii. viii. 339 They run all at once striving a vie who shall be formost. [Holland often uses the phrase.] ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) viii. 179 When all had striu'd in these assaies their fill. 1619 A. Gorges tr. F. Bacon Wisedome Ancients xxvi. 124 Certaine games of Lampbearers, in which they that striued for the prize were wont to carie torches lighted. a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) iii. iv Fost. I have no money. Phil. But now you strived which man would lend me most. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 10 That most eminent Oratour would often contend and strive avie with Roscius. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 14 The Galley slaves strived who should sound their Waits and Trumpets most joyfully. 1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. Dd4v [They] smiled when they were rackt, and strived with their Tormentors who should be first tired. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 97 The rival Chariots in the Race shall strive . View more context for this quotation 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 241 There with commutual zeal we both had strove, In acts of dear benevolence, and love. < as lemmas |
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