| 单词 | to take one's death |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take one's death ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise, vow, or pledge [verb (intransitive)] > stake one's life to take one's death1563 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 393 (MED) This pope..hade mony adversaryes..whiche hade ordeynede to have brente his werkes after his dethe, but that Petre his diacon affermede theym to be made by the instinccion of the Holy Goste, takenge his dethe in to testimony.] 1563 T. Becon Reliques of Rome (rev. ed.) f. 59 He tooke hys death thereon, that he was neuer giltye. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iii. 94 I will take my death, I neuer meant him any ill. View more context for this quotation 1650 M. Moore Wonderful News 10 I would take my death that Mrs. Dorothy Swinow was the death of the Lady Hambleton. 1833 Dublin Univ. Mag. Jan. 79/2 I'll take my death upon it, that a better natured or a better behaved boy never was in the world. < as lemmas |
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