英语词汇“in a mortar”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. figurative. Frequently in in a (also the) mortar.Chiefly in biblical translations of Proverbs 27:22, and usages echoing this. With the figurative use in quot. 1662 cf. Italian mortaro ‘Also used for a womans privities’ (Florio, 1598).

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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) : Prov. (Bodl. 959) xxvii. 22 If þou bete togidere a fool in a morteer [L. pila],..shal not ben taken awey from hym his folye.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 44 Her sauce was..vnsauourely grounde In a morter [c1400 C text mortel], post-mortem, of many bitter peyne.

?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. xxiii. f. 15^v (MED) Kest al in þe morter of meknes and breke hit smal wiþ þe pestel of drede of god.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxvii. C Though thou shuldest bray a foole w^t a pestell in a morter like otemeell, yet wil not his foolishnesse go from him.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E2 Sir, with an argument, Hee'll bray you in a Morter .

1662 M. W. Marriage Broaker v. i This Pestle shall ne're pound i' th widows mortar.

1855 R. Browning Pretty Woman vi, in Men & Women I. 130 But for loving, why, you would not, Sweet, Though we prayed you, Paid you, brayed you In a mortar.

1985 Bible (New Jerusalem) Prov. xxvii. 22 Pound a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, his folly will not leave him.

1997 Éire—Ireland Spring 14 Providence and economics are mashed together in the mortar of politics.

单词	in a mortar
释义	> as lemmas in a (also the) mortar b. figurative. Frequently in in a (also the) mortar.Chiefly in biblical translations of Proverbs 27:22, and usages echoing this. With the figurative use in quot. 1662 cf. Italian mortaro ‘Also used for a womans privities’ (Florio, 1598). ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) : Prov. (Bodl. 959) xxvii. 22 If þou bete togidere a fool in a morteer [L. pila],..shal not ben taken awey from hym his folye. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 44 Her sauce was..vnsauourely grounde In a morter [c1400 C text mortel], post-mortem, of many bitter peyne. ?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. xxiii. f. 15^v (MED) Kest al in þe morter of meknes and breke hit smal wiþ þe pestel of drede of god. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxvii. C Though thou shuldest bray a foole w^t a pestell in a morter like otemeell, yet wil not his foolishnesse go from him. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E2 Sir, with an argument, Hee'll bray you in a Morter . View more context for this quotation 1662 M. W. Marriage Broaker v. i This Pestle shall ne're pound i' th widows mortar. 1855 R. Browning Pretty Woman vi, in Men & Women I. 130 But for loving, why, you would not, Sweet, Though we prayed you, Paid you, brayed you In a mortar. 1985 Bible (New Jerusalem) Prov. xxvii. 22 Pound a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, his folly will not leave him. 1997 Éire—Ireland Spring 14 Providence and economics are mashed together in the mortar of politics. extracted from mortarn.¹ < as lemmas
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