单词 | within-door |
释义 | within-dooradv.adj. Now rare. = within doors adv. speak within door: ‘do not clamour so as to be heard beyond the house’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [adverb] > indoors within-door1579 within doors1581 indoors1813 therein1822 indoor1884 in-a-door1932 the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [adjective] > indoor within doors1625 indoor1709 indoors1799 within-door1821 under-cover1854 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 14 Him..yt hath a conduit within doore, & fetcheth water without. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) iv. ii. 148 Speake within doore [1622 within dores]. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 177 Sedentary, and Within-doore [1612 within-doores] Arts. 1649 C. Wase tr. Sophocles Electra 4 Methinks within door,..I seemd to heare One of the maidens keep a groaning. 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 282/1 I suspect he had his within-door reasons for the preference. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket i. i. 35 They [sc. moths] burn themselves within-door. 1954 M. Sharp Gipsy in Parlour xxi. 200 All female within-door work had been properly done. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < adv.adj.1579 |
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