| 单词 | to use a person's company |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto use a person's company ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication with [verb (transitive)] > frequent (another's company) to use a person's companyc1450 c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) l. 13632 (MED) Kyng Ioas..lyfed in mawmentry, All wroyȝt on þat same wyse þat vsed hys cumpany. ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. B.iiv Yf ye knewe hym as well as I ye wolde not vse his company Nor loue hym in no wyse. 1564 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 101 As report is, she hath vsid the evill Companie of William Gallimour. 1580 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Short Disc. Chirurg. sig. F.iv The fourth cause is certein fluxes of Vrine caused of some kinde of the Pockes, as ye may see by those that vse company with euil women and take harme, for presently this burning commeth. 1599 R. Barnfield in W. Shakespeare et al. Passionate Pilgrime (new ed.) sig. D7v They that fawnd on him before Vse his company no more. 1615 T. Cooper Christians Daily Sacrifice (rev. ed.) To Rdr. sig. 2 Therefore art thou also taught how to choose and vse company, that so thou maist not returne vnto them, but cause them to returne vnto thee. 1698 W. Caton tr. Eusebius Abridgm. Eccl. Hist (ed. 2) 29 She said that it was thence forth unlawful for her to use company at Bed and Board with that Man. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iv . x. 253 He has been the best son in the world, madam, and used nothing but the best company. 1825 tr. J. W. von Goethe Faustus iii. i. 38 Had I a jot of reason, I'd not use The devil's company. 1869 Ladies' Repository Nov. 347/2 If he had known before that he would have done so, he would never have used his company so familiarly. < as lemmas |
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