单词 | consort |
释义 | con·sort I. a. obsolete b. < the criminal and his semirespectable consorts > < the second volume is in every respect a splendid consort of the first > specifically < far astern … he could see the brown sail and the red sail of their consorts — C.S.Forester > c. < the queen attended the opening of the exhibition with her consort > — compare prince consort II. 1. obsolete < in one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite — Edmund Spenser > 2. < I can claim that poetry … had consort with me through life — A.T.Quiller-Couch > — often used with in < he ruled in consort with his father > 3. a. b. obsolete c. III. transitive verb 1. < the ideas that naturally consort themselves with the word civilization — Isaac Taylor > 2. 3. obsolete intransitive verb 1. < a unit's soldiery … consorting with women — Fred Majdalany > < from this time on he consorted more and more with Methodists — Allen Johnson > 2. 3. < except in matters of doctrine Pilgrim and Puritan consorted ill together — V.L.Parrington > < the statement of faith … is so inane that … an apostate … can easily consort to it — H.H.Savage > < the illustrations consort admirably with the text — Times Literary Supplement > |
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