| 释义 |
‖ verbum sat
Also sat verbum.
[See note to prec.]
A phrase used to conclude a statement, implying that further explanation or comment is unnecessary or unadvisable.
In the first quot. perhaps equivalent to prec.
1649Evelyn Corr. (1850) III. 49 Against which [conquest] I find most men inclined to oppose, by a juncture with the new Commonwealth. Verbum sat—. 1668in Extr. St. P. rel. Friends iii. (1912) 277 Ile say they are not of y⊇ brood of y⊇ old Presbiterian. verbum sat. 1838Thackeray Misc. Ess. (1885) 129 Verbum sat—this naughty ‘Somnolency’ ought to go to sleep in her night-gown. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xix. 195 The thing can be done, and we did it: sat verbum. |