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单词 to speak with
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to speak with ——
1. To converse with, talk to; to consult or confer with.In Old English and early Middle English similarly with mid.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse with [verb (transitive)]
to speak to ——c825
speakc950
to speak with ——971
to speak unto ——c1386
entertain1553
to stand with ——1564
wissel1571
discourse1677
dialogue1681
converse1718
971 Blickl. Hom. 241 He þæt is se þe wið me spræc.
c1000 Ælfric Exodus xxxii. 23 Þa þu.. wið god spæce.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 85 Alse wise hire lerden, þanne hie wið hire speken.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1553 Ne mot no mon wiþ hire speke.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 811 Wiþ morgan speke wil y And spede.
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 17 Ȝe spekyn with Hym in spyrit.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. x. 48 They spak with the knyghtes & welcomed hem.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 727/2 He shalbe spoken with towchyng your cause.
1622 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 10 They both retired themselves to there privacy, soe that wee could not then speake with them.
1675 City Mercury 18–25 Nov. 2/1 He [a Physician] is any time to be spoke with from eight in the Morning to four in the Afternoon.
1764 S. Foote Patron iii. 67 Not to be spoke with! Don't tell me, Sir; he must, he shall.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 140 Your uncle..has been spoken with, and declines visiting you.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 27 Not for three years to speak with any men.
figurative.1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xv. 134 When any temptation desires to speak with you, let the answer be ready that there is other company within.
2. Nautical. To hold communication with (another vessel). Cf. 19b.
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1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 182 The expedition bearing vp to speak with vs, the ships fell foule.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4422/7 We made Signal to the Commanding Officer..that we would speak with him.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 24 On our speaking with her we found she had sprung her Fore-stay.
1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 6 I need not direct seamen how to proceed, in order to speak with any vessel they chance to see.
3. To communicate with (a place). rare.
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society > travel > means of travel > [verb (transitive)]
to speak with ——1659
to link up with1907
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 275 In Greenland, and Nova Zembla, &c. which onely in Summer-time may bee spoke with.
4. Cant. To have to do with; to steal or rob (cf. to speak to —— 8 at Phrasal verbs 1). Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] > steal from
picka1350
lifta1529
filch1567
purloinc1571
prowl1603
touch1631
pinch1632
to pick up1687
to speak with ——1725
knock1767
shab1787
jump1789
to speak to ——1800
shake1811
spice1819
sting1819
tap1879
to knock over1928
1725 New Canting Dict. (at cited word) I will never speak with any thing but Wedge or Cloy; I'll never steal, or have to do with any thing but Plate, or Money, &c.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) I spoke with the cull on the cherry coloured prancer, I robbed the man on the black horse.
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