| 单词 | to subject someone's neck to the yoke |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto subject someone's neck to (also †unto) the yoke to subject someone's neck to (also †unto) the yoke: to place someone under the rule or control of someone or something. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > the neck to the yoke to subject someone's neck to (also unto) the yokec1592 c1592 Faire Em sig. A3 A number such as we subiect Their gentle neckes vnto their stubborne yoke, Of drudging labour. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 120 To subject their necks to the yoak of Christ. a1708 W. Beveridge Private Thoughts Relig. (1709) 71 He thus subjected his Neck to the Yoke of His own law. 1834 Knickerbocker Jan. 6 Distinctly blazoning his purpose never to subject his own neck to this intolerable yoke. 1906 tr. in E. H. Blair et al. Philippine Islands XXXVI. 110 Upon being freed from the conjugal yoke she desired to subject her neck to that of religion. 2003 E. Leiva-Merikakis Way of Disciple iii. 58 Only on condition that we willingly subject our neck to his yoke. < as lemmas |
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