| 单词 | fast upon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fast against (also upon, on) P2. Originally Irish History; later also Indian English. to fast against (also upon, on) (a person, later also a thing): (originally) to undertake a fast as a way of compelling payment, redress, or compliance from (a debtor, offender, etc.); (later also more generally) to protest against (something) with fasting. Originally used with historical reference to the practice of troscud in Early Irish law, in which a fast was typically undertaken at the door of the debtor, offender, etc. In later use also applied to the similar Indian practice of sitting dharna (dharna n.), in the context both of personal disputes and political protests. ΚΠ 1865 W. N. Hancock et al. tr. Senchus Mor in Anc. Laws Irel. I. 115 I deem it right that they be fasted upon before distress shall be taken from them. 1873 W. K. Sullivan O'Curry's Anc. Irish I. Introd. 283 Where the defendant was a Rig, the plaintiff was obliged to ‘fast’ upon him..before he made his distress. 1887 W. Stokes tr. Tripartite Life Patrick I. 219 Patrick..went to the king..And fasted against him. 1924 M. K. Gandhi in Young India 1 May 145/1 I can fast against my father to cure him of a vice, but I may not in order to get from him an inheritance. The beggars of India..sometimes fast against those who do not satisfy them. 1997 S. A. Meigs Reformations in Ireland: Trad. & Confessionalism ii. 33 It was not acceptable to fast against someone on a holy day, or against one's own father. 2003 Times of India (Mumbai) 29 Nov. 3/1 Anna Hazare..was fasting against corruption in the state government at the Azad Maidan. fast upon ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > approximate quantity or amount > approximately (an amount) [phrase] > nearly (an amount) nigh thana1200 on (also upon) the point ofc1300 nearhandc1350 nigh byc1430 nearbyc1485 nigh hand1548 fast upon1583 nigh upon1632 near on (also upon)1651 nothing short of1838 nigh but1854 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xxx. 177 After he had gone about with them a fortie yeres or fast vpon it. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxix. 735 So there were..killed in the place..fast upon a thousand. 1621 H. Finch Calling of Iewes 164 He was fast vpon 100. beyond which yeares it was not ordinary for men in those dayes to liue. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale at Fast ‘I gev fast on ten pounds for her.’ < as lemmas |
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