| 单词 | to wend to bed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wend to bed e. intransitive. To go to a specified place or thing for an implied purpose. Frequently in to wend to bed, to wend to church (also kirk). Now rare. ΚΠ c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) 221 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 225 Þe monekes wende to bedde & slepe, þo soper was ido. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 19046 [P]etre and iohn..went to kirc to make þair bone. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 72 When þay had waschen worþyly, þay wenten to sete, Þe best burne ay abof. c1450 (a1400) Chevalere Assigne l. 161 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 865 And whenne it drowȝe to þe nyȝte he wendeth to bedde. 1797 T. Park Sonnets 105 Supperless to bed, the plunderers wend, And feast upon the pleasant dreams which on deceit attend. 1838 E. B. Barrett Seraphim & Other Poems 139 Till Isobel its mother said ‘The fever waneth—wend to bed—And mine the watch shall be.’ 1911 Methodist Rev. Mar. 321 They wend to dinners whose price would educate an orphan. They wend to church where they call themselves ‘miserable sinners’. < as lemmas |
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