单词 | to tarry, attend or stay a person's leisure |
释义 | > as lemmasto tarry, attend or stay (upon) a person's leisure c. to tarry, attend or stay (upon) a person's leisure: to wait until he is unoccupied; to wait his time. Also figurative. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > until someone is unoccupied to tarry, attend or stay (upon) a person's leisure1517 1517 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 4 (note) If ye be not contente to tary my Leysure, departe when ye wille. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxvi[i]. 14 [16] O tary thou ye Lordes leysure. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 68 Weele make our leysures to attend on yours. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 147 Worthy Macbeth, wee stay vpon your leysure. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 58 The aduerse windes Whose leisure I haue staid, haue giuen him time To land his Legions all as soone as I. View more context for this quotation 1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 91 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity Not contented to wait the Lords Leisure. < as lemmas |
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