单词 | under colour |
释义 | > as lemmasunder (a) colour ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adverb] > under the appearance of under (the) umber of (or for)1423 by colour ofc1425 under (the) colour ofc1451 under the shadow of1523 with coloura1593 under the umbrage of1674 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 399 Vnder that colour hadde I many a myrthe. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 669 Wndyr colour we mon our ansuer mak, Bot sic a thing I will nocht on me tak. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure ix. i They beleve in no maner of wyse That under a colour a trouth may aryse. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 866 The Moores contrarie to his commaundement had bought spices vnder a coulour. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C3v Then may we with some colour rise in armes. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vii. xxiv. 568 They went aboord in their canoes, carrying many refreshings of meats and stuffes to make apparrell, vpon colour to sell them. 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xxvii. 30 They had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. View more context for this quotation 1688 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Persecution Piedmont 46 The Prisoners..represented also that they ought not to be distinguished from the rest, under colour that they were more culpable. 1740 Universal Hist. V. iii. xix. 674 Civicus Cerealis was murdered during his proconsulship of Asia, under colour, that he designed to raise disturbances in the state. 1824 tr. Herodotus Hist. II. vi. cxxxiii. 114 Miltiades..set sail for Paros, under colour that the Parians had sailed in a trireme with the Persians to Marathon. 1882 C. G. Leland Gypsies 247 He was endeavoring to convince me that I ought to give five cents more for it..under color that the leather had a different ground. < as lemmas |
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