单词 | to smite down |
释义 | > as lemmasto smite down to smite down (formerly also †to smite adown) 1. transitive. To knock, beat, or strike down; to cut down with a sword or other weapon. Also figurative. Now chiefly literary or archaic.In quot. c1225 in to smite down one's knees to the earth: to fall to one's knees; to kneel down.Also with to the ground, earth, etc. (cf. to smite (a person or thing) to the ground (also earth, floor) at Phrases 3). ΚΠ c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 22 (MED) Ha..smat smeortliche adun hire cneon to þer eorðe &..to Crist..cleopede. c1300 St. Michael (Laud) l. 567 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 316 Hov is þat hit..smit a-doun wel grete treon? c1330 Simonie (Auch.) (1991) l. 360 Þat is muchel reuþe To wite Þat alle manere godnesse is þus adoun ismite. c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) l. 1185 Þre stedes heeddes doun ryȝt He smot at strokes þre. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxlii. A For the enemie..smyteth my life downe to the grounde. 1611 Bible (King James) Judges xx. 39 Surely they are smitten downe before vs. View more context for this quotation 1642 J. B. Speciall Newes Army at Warwicke sig. A2 The Kings red Regiment of 12. hundred men..were..then abundantly smitten downe by the Orange Coats. a1741 T. Emlyn Serm. (1742) vii. 131 That surprizing stroke, which has smitten down to the ground one of the greatest lives in the world. 1785 G. Butt Isaiah Versified xxvi. 116 Dead are the tyrants, nor return to light; Thy hand hath smote 'em down no more to rise. 1839 L. H. Sigourney in Christian Keepsake 78 The parent may be doomed to see the child, in whom his proudest hopes were garnered up, smite down those hopes. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxiv. 571 The lightning has actually struck the vessel, so as to smite down some of the spars and rigging. 1920 R. Kipling et al. in Q. Horati Flacci Carminum Librum Quintum v. 17 For fierce she-Britons, apt to smite Their upward-climbing sisters down. 2016 M. Schorr Identity Crisis xxii. 139 It wasn't just the higher power I needed to worry about smiting me down. I'd..discovered that what we'd done was breaking the law. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > position specific body part [verb (transitive)] > head, face, or eyes warpc1175 lout1297 to smite downa1350 to cast downc1374 embowc1440 droop1582 vail1586 upturn1667 slink1683 poke1852 a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 13 When the kyng of fraunce y-herde this tydynge, he smot doun is heued. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 540 Wiþ þat he smot a-down his hed a-noon And gan to motre. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 466 Than she smote downe the hede and seyde but lytyll. 1534 Prymer in Eng. sig. H.viiv When he had sayde these wordes, he smyte downe his heade & let go his breath And lo, the veile of the temple was cut in two partes. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 54 Downe she smote her visadge. < as lemmas |
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