单词 | from the mouth of a person |
释义 | > as lemmasfrom the mouth of a person j. from the mouth of a person and variants: from the person specified as speaker; directly from the person specified chiefly as the originator of a statement, suggestion, etc., or as best able to bear witness to a certain state of affairs, etc. in the mouth of a person: by the spoken testimony of the person specified, in the opinion of, according to, as interpreted by (also figurative) (now rare). in (also with) a French (English, etc.) mouth: when spoken by a person of French (English, etc.) nationality (sometimes with reference to pronunciation). it does not lie in a person's mouth to and variants: it does not befit the person specified to (say something). out of one's own mouth [compare Luke 19:22] : by one's own evidence. ΚΠ c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 68 The law sais, jn the mouth of twa or thre personis all word suld be trowit. a1500 Gospel of Nicodemus (Harl. 149) f. 268v (MED) Oure lawe seyth that, yn the mowthe of two wytnesses, alle þe lawe ys beleued. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xxiii. 82 That all men may heare from the mouth of the depositors and witnesses what is saide. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 151 And for whose death, we in the worlds wide mouth Liue scandaliz'd. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Luke xix. 22 Out of thine owne mouth will I iudge thee. View more context for this quotation 1614 W. Bradshaw Unreasonableness Separation (1640) 56 Why may not preaching [etc.]..be sufficient to argue our ministers to be true pastors and teachers, notwithstanding that in the mouth of the Law, they are sometimes called Priests and Deacons. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 77 I will come and learne from your owne mouth, all the particulars. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 4 To smatter Latin with an english mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French. 1645 J. Winthrop Declar. Former Passages 3 When the English out of his owne mouth found him guilty, and would have sent him to Uncas his Sagamore Miantonimo earnestly desired he might not be taken out of his hands. 1653 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica Pref. sig. A6v The Jewish Cabbala is conceived to be a Traditional Doctrine or Exposition of the Pentateuch which Moses received from the mouth of God. 1703 J. Hay (title) Self-Condemnation: or the author of the second edition of the Debate in the Shop, condemned out of his own mouth. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 239. ⁋3 Socrates..would ask his Adversary Question upon Question, till he had convinced him out of his own Mouth that his Opinions were wrong. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 41 I had the Relation from his own Mouth. 1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 500 Hence, in a Roman mouth, the graceful name Of prophet and of poet was the same. 1813 T. Jefferson Let. 12 Oct. in Writings (1984) 1302 Their Platonising successors..found it necessary to disavow the primitive Christians, who had taken their principles from the mouth of Jesus himself, of his Apostles, and the Fathers contemporary with them. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 250 It..usually happens that these declarations become the means of condemning the accused, as it were, out of their own mouths. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 40 My princely nephew entertains with so much suspicion any admonition coming from my mouth. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 76 The Frank..learned..his faith from the mouth of the Roman priest. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 644 in Idylls of King How, in the mouths of base interpreters..Is thy white blamelessness accounted blame! 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. ii. 44 It did not lie in his mouth to be curious on the subject. 1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds III. lxxii. 250 Though they had heard so much from her own mouth, they knew no more than they had known before. 1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna I. xxiii. 297 Those fine sentiments..had occurred to her before she heard them from the mouth of Miss Alice Bluestone. 1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. iii. 112 In other mouths Rousseau's sentiment..became unequivocally misanthropical. 1885 R. Churchill Speech (1889) I. 245 Does it lie in the mouth of members of that Government to taunt the Tory party with having no policy? 1906 J. London White Fang v. v. 325 Judge Scott surveyed them triumphantly. ‘Out of your own mouths be it,’ he said. 1988 Times 1 Mar. 39/2 The submission for the defendants lay ill in the mouth of those who..had spread the news nationwide for their own personal profit. 1990 J. Rogers Her Living Image (BNC) 140 She's condemned out of her own mouth. 1990 F. Fyfield Trial by Fire (1991) iii. 41 The confidences that had poured unbidden from her own mouth and into Helen's ears were rewarded by confidences in return. < as lemmas |
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