单词 | by god above |
释义 | > as lemmasby God above a. by God, †before (also for, fore) God; also by God above, etc. Cf. by prep. 2. [Compare Anglo-Norman par deu and Middle French, French par Dieu (c1170).] From a desire to avoid the charge of taking God's name in vain arise various distorted or ‘minced’ pronunciations of the word: see cock n.6, dod n.1 and int., Gad n.2, gar int., Ged n.2, Gog n.1, goles n., golly int., gom n.3, gosh n., gosse n.1, gud n., gum n.5; also adad int., adod int., bedad int., begad int., begar int., ecod int., egad int., igad int. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > egad by Goda1225 deusc1300 s'elpa1330 by Gogc1400 Gog of heavena1500 by cock?1548 mort dieua1593 (God) refuse me1596 God damn me1619 adad1664 agad1672 igad1672 egad1673 adod1676 ecod1677 gadso1677 ydadc1680 goles1734 s'gad1743 by (or my) gumc1815 gorblimey1896 a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 57 For god, let þu þet uuele beon. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7000 Vor gode [a1400 Trin. Cambr. bi god] þe nexte king..ne ȝef hom noȝt folliche so muche. c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 1098 ‘For gode’, queþ Beues, ‘þat ich do nelle’. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7934 ‘Bi godd o-liue’, he suor his ath. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 965 (MED) A mensk lady on molde mon may hir calle, for Gode [rhymes brode, lode]. c1410 (c1350) Gamelyn (Harl. 7334) l. 469 (MED) It is nouȝt wel serued, by God þat al made. c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) l. 195 Be God þat boȝte me dere! c1500 Melusine (1895) 293 By god, my lord, shame is therof to you. ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Cvjv That is well sayd be god almyght. ?1544 J. Heywood Foure PP sig. C.iv Pardoner. I thought ye lyed. Potycary. And so thought I by god that dyed. c1557 Enterlude of Youth (new ed.) sig. Biiv A wyfe nay nay for God auowe He shall haue fleshe inoughe. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. C2v Fran, Are they so? Comes, I before God are they. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. iii. sig. C3v 'Fore God, my intelligence Costs me more money, then my share oft comes too. View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 157 By God, Sir, I will doe for Queene Elizabeth that which I will not doe for my selfe. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxxvi. 276 Before God! I think the fellow's head is made of a wool-pack; for my shot rebounded from his face like a wad of spun-yarn from the walls of a ship. 1799 M. Hays Victim of Prejudice I. iii. 29 ‘By God!’ said he, ‘a little beauty! a Hebe! a wood-nymph! I must and will have a kiss.’ 1844 R. W. Emerson Poet in Ess. 2nd Ser. i. 43 He says with the old painter, ‘By God, it is in me, and must go forth of me’. 1885 J. Ormsby Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote III. ii. xxxiv. 384 ‘By God and upon my conscience’, said the devil, ‘I never observed it’. 1912 B. L. Reitman in P. Glassgold Anarchy! (2001) 271 You won't kiss the American flag, eh? By God, we'll make you; we'll ram it down your throat. 1915 J. Turner Let. 3 May in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 12 I do trust, before God, that these innocent-eyed French kiddies do not understand a word of that which they repeat—in our tongue. 1953 V. Randolph & G. P. Wilson Down in Holler 166 By God, I'll chop the damn' thing to pieces! 2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 161 Well, by God she is a little darling! It's why I went for her. < as lemmas |
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