单词 | downputting |
释义 | downputtingn. Chiefly Scottish in early use. The action or an act of putting down a person or thing (in various senses of to put down at put v. Phrasal verbs 1); putting down. ΚΠ ?a1425 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Lamb. 472) (2000) ii. xxvi. l. 1555 Doon-puttynge and a lowynge of his evene Cristen. 1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. A.7 For the King was zoung, lusty, & reddy to auenture his persoun to all hasardis, baith be sey and land, in doun putting of theifis, and vpsetting of Iustice. a1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 215 To them quho was the cause of his doune putting. 1600 in M. Wood & R. K. Hannay Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1927) V. 292 Apprehendit for doun-puting of her awin bairne. 1839 A. Duff India, & India Missions i. 31 What was the history of the world between the flood and the coming of Christ? Was it not a history of the up-setting and down-putting of kingdoms? 1848 Ainsworth's Mag. 14 67 From the down putting of the shutters at morn, till the workshop closes at night. 1879 Theatre 1 Nov. 206 The mode of ‘downputting’ favoured by ladies and gentlemen of fashion is cool ignoring, overlooking and haughty silence. 1902 H. Harland Lady Paramount vi. 86 With slow calculated liftings and down-puttings of his feet. 1982 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 9 May 2 d/6 Dame Rebecca in 1915 was able to defend West from a downputting by an American critic. 2001 N. Hornby How to be Good ix. 144 Now I come to think of it, heckler downputting would have been the perfect job for the old David. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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