单词 | wide and far |
释义 | > as lemmaswide and far b. far and wide (also, less usually, wide and far): over or through a large space or region; so as to reach or affect many or various places or people. ΚΠ eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. viii. 182 Wæron þas wundor feorr & wide gemæred & gecyþed. OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 10 June (2013) 114 He..ferde mid Pawle feorr ond wide geond middangeard. c1275 (?a1216) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) 710 Þu axest me..ȝif ich kon eni oþer dede Bute singen in sume tide An bringe blisse for & wide. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1256 Fro ðe riche flod eufrate, Wid and fer to ðe rede se. a1400 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Egerton) (1966) l. 447 He hadde ben ferre and wyde. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) v. l. 105 (MED) Of alle the est-syde Of al this world, to seke ferre and wyde, Shulde þou not fynde soo pyked a company. a1500 Life St. Alexius (Titus) l. 161 (MED) Hys Fader send bothe fer and vyde Messengers on euery syde. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxcvjv [They] distroye the countrie with fyre farre and wyde. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 80 The word broad,..added to the goose, proues thee faire and wide a broad goose. 1600 L. Lewkenor tr. A. de Torquemada Spanish Mandeuile ii. f. 53 Christendome stretcheth very wide and farre, and there are fewe places in the world where Christians inhabite not. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 133 Thir Legions..Scout farr and wide into the Realm of night. 1677 F. Bampfield All in One 124 This black Art doth spread it self wide and far. 1710 tr. C. Quillet Callipædia iv. 60 The Spanish Kingdom bounds the sultry West Stretch'd wide and far, a sunny Clime. 1766 G. Canning tr. M. de Polignac Anti-Lucretius i. 9 Out gush th' imprison'd waters, wide and far They spread destruction. 1768 T. Gray Fatal Sisters in Poems 84 Far and wide the notes prolong. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby v. 222 Their vassals wander wide and far. 1813 R. Southey Rokeby v. 222 Multitudes..assemble, coming from far and wide. 1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xix Though they scoured the country far and wide. 1879 China Rev. 7 No. 5. 313/2 I must journey wide and far. 1944 P. Larkin Let. 14 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 94 But the third went wide and far Into an unforgiving sea. 1977 Yearbk. Internat. Folk Music Council 9 96 He travelled far and wide with his recording van. 2011 R. Fortey Survivors vi. 177 Pollen travels far and wide, and often well away from the plant from which it originates. < as lemmas |
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