单词 | to sleep with one's fathers |
释义 | > as lemmasto sleep with one's fathers P3. to be gathered to one's fathers (also formerly †to be put to one's fathers, †to be laid unto one's fathers, †to sleep with one's fathers): to be dead and buried. [In to be gathered to one's fathers, to be put to one's fathers, and to be laid unto one's fathers ultimately after Hebrew ne'ĕspū 'el-'ăḇōṯāw they were gathered to their fathers (Judges 2:10); in to sleep with one's fathers ultimately after Hebrew yiškaḇ ʿim-'ăḇōṯāw he slept with his fathers (frequently in the books of Kings and Chronicles, indicating the death of a king of Israel or Judah).] ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dead sleepc950 restOE liea1000 to be deadc1000 to lie lowa1275 layc1300 to be gathered to one's fathersa1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 to sup with our Saviour, with Our (the) Lord, with (Jesus) Christa1400 repose1586 slumber1594 to sup in heaven or hell1642 to turn one's toes up to the daisies1842 to be out of the way1881 to push up daisiesa1918 to have had it1942 RIP1962 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Judges ii. 10 Al þat generacion is gedered to here faders [L. congregata est ad patres suos]. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings i. 21 Whan my lord kyng schal slepe with his fadris [L. cum dormierit..cum patribus suis]. c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 34 (MED) He decessid and was put to his fadres. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts xiii. f. li Dauid (after he had in his tyme fulfilled ye will of god) fell on sleape, & was laid vnto his fathers. 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man (new ed.) 95 The Reader may iudge, how hee would vse his Maiesties owne fame if hee were gathered to his Fathers. 1698 M. Pix Deceiver Deceived iii. 24 In a months time he went to sleep with his Fathers. a1702 N. Taylor Pract. Disc. (1703) 207 Other Calamities which it may be will fall upon us before we are gathered to our Fathers. 1776 R. Winter Serm. Death J. Winter 19 Even a David..must fall asleep, and be laid to his fathers. 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 31 843 He salivates for some threescore years,..and is gathered to his fathers, to spit no more. 1880 Harper's Mag. July 186/2 Finally La Lande died in the odor of sanctity, and was gathered to his fathers. a1902 S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) iii. 12 About one year after his wife's death Mr Pontifex also was gathered to his fathers. 1944 G. Heyer Friday's Child xx. 234 The pug, not being as yet gathered to its fathers, was her particular charge. 2015 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. (Obituaries) 8 b DeCubellis, Germain L. ‘Jerry’ of Tampa, died and was gathered to his fathers on October 3, 2015. < as lemmas |
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