单词 | wait attendance |
释义 | > as lemmasto wait attendance 5. In senses 3, 4 the phrases to wait attendance (obsolete), to dance attendance, occur= ‘to attend’; the latter usually with some shade of sarcasm or contempt. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > on a superior to dance attendance1555 to wait attendancea1593 antechamber1884 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. D.viv He dauncth atendaunce, are atendantes dauncyng. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C4 Nobles..That waite attendance for a gratious looke. 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. ii. ii. iv. 451 Shut him out of doores once or twice, let him dance attendance. a1704 T. Brown Comical View London & Westm. (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 69 Why should the Loadstone complain of the Iron for not dancing Attendance after it. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xviii. 175 What was he about, dancing attendance here? to wait attendance ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > on a superior to dance attendance1555 to wait attendancea1593 antechamber1884 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > attend as servant [verb (intransitive)] followeOE to stand before ——OE wait1526 to wait attendancea1593 attenda1616 tenda1616 a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C4 Nobles..That waite attendance for a gratious looke. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 165. < as lemmas |
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