| 单词 | under the person of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder the person of a. In the (assumed or fictional) character, voice, or guise of. Also †under the person of. Cf. sense 1. ΚΠ c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xviii. 333 (MED) In my paleys, paradys, in persone [v.r. likenesse] of an addre, Falseliche þow fettest þere þynge þat I loued. 1537 W. Turner tr. Urbanus Regius Compar. Olde Learnynge & Newe sig. Cii The Apostel doth not here speake in the person of wycked men, for wycked men do not consent to the law. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 11 Whan as he speaketh vnder the parson of Phebus. 1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. ii. v. f. 92v When the Magnifico, in the person of the Lady, had spoken thus, then hee returned her this answere. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 13 Spenser..describing true temperance under the person of Guion, [etc.]. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 542. ¶1 Had I always written in the Person of the Spectator. 1843 tr. in Dial Oct. 267 Bettina.., the Frau von Arnim, exhibits her eccentric wisdom under the person of Goethe's Mother. 1955 W. R. Matthews Brit. Philosopher as Writer 12 The author sets up one or more ‘stooges’, who..can be made to ask just the questions which he, in the person of another character, can answer. 1997 R. Hayman Nietzsche (1998) 14 Entering the trance state, she [sc. the medium]..began to talk in the person of dead relatives. < as lemmas |
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