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单词 dehort
释义 dehort, v. Now rare.|dɪˈhɔːt|
[ad. L. dēhortā-rī to dissuade, f. de- I. 2 + hortārī to exhort.]
1. trans. To use exhortation to dissuade (a person) from a course or purpose; to advise or counsel against (an action, etc.).
a. with simple (or double) obj. Now Obs.
1545Joye Exp. Dan. i. (R.), Jermye wel dehorted and disswaded the peple sayinge [etc.].1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 29 Wherby we doe perswade..disswade..exhorte, or dehorte..any man.1611Bible 1 Macc. ix. 9 But they dehorted him, saying, Wee shall neuer be able.a1631Donne Lett. xcvii. Wks. VI. 416, I am far from dehorting those fixed Devotions.a1656Ussher Ann. iv. (1658) 24 Exhorting them to observe the law of God..and dehorting them the breach of that law.1682R. Burthogge Argument (1684) 121 He doth Dehort the Baptizing of Infants.1696Aubrey Misc. (1721) 218, I dehort him who adviseth with me, and suffer him not to proceed with what he is about.
b. Const. from.
a1533Frith Another Bk. agst. Rastell Prol. Wks. (1829) 207 To dehort thee from the vain and childish fear which our forefathers have had.1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. xiii. 333 They dehorted him from going to Babylon.1758Jortin Erasm. I. 343 No person had taken so much pains as he to dehort all men from cruelty.1825Southey Lett. (1856) III. 462 Croker dehorts me from visiting Ireland.1882Cheyne Isaiah xx. Introd., Isaiah had good reason..to dehort the Jews from an Egyptian alliance.
c. fig. Said of circumstances, etc. Obs.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 106 If the wasting of our money might not dehort vs, yet the wounding of our mindes should deterre vs.1697Potter Antiq. Greece ii. xvii. (1715) 339 It was unlucky, and dehorted them from proceeding in what they had designed.
2. absol.
1574Whitgift Def. Aunsw. i. Wks. (1851) I. 156 Christ doth not here dehort from bearing rule..but from seeking rule.1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. iii. iv. rule xx. §19 S. Paul does..dehort from marriage not as from an evil but as from a burden.a1703Burkitt On N.T. Heb. xiii. 6 The words are a strong reason to dehort from covetousness, and to exhort to contentedness.1801F. Barrett The Magus 19 The Creator..dehorting from the eating of the apple.
Hence deˈhorting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 34 b, The places of exhortyng and dehortyng are the same whiche wee use in perswadyng and dissuadyng.1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 82 After these Epistles Dehorting and Disswading.1652Gaule Magastrom. 29 Whan God desists from his gracious and serious dehorting.
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