| 单词 | to wear a crown, diadem, mitre, palm, the purple |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wear a crown, diadem, mitre, palm, the purple a. to wear a crown, diadem, mitre, palm, the purple, etc.: to hold the dignity or office of which the ornament is a symbol. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [verb (intransitive)] > hold office with specific symbol to wear a crown, diadem, mitre, palm, the purplec893 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. (1883) vi. xxx. 280 Þæt hie woldon þa onwaldas forlætan, & þa purpuran alecgan þa hie weredon. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Esdras iii. 2 King Darie made a gret soper..to alle that wereden [v.r. werden] purper. c1470 Three Fifteenth-C. Chron. (Camden) 4 He was the fyrst kynge þat ever wered crowne of golde in this londe. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 6 The last That ware the Imperiall Diademe of Rome. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 31 Vneasie lies the head that weares a crowne . View more context for this quotation 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 274 It is the power of winning that palm which ensures our wearing it. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 205 Degrading that crown which it was probable that he would himself one day wear. 1895 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Sowers i He [the Emperor] is a gentleman, although he has the misfortune to wear the purple. < as lemmas |
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