| 单词 | in a person's aucht |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin a person's aucht 2. The fact of possessing something as one's own; possession, ownership. Chiefly in in a person's aucht (also † on a person's aucht). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > [noun] auchteOE owningOE propertya1393 propriety1486 ownage1576 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xviii. 236 Seo..gebohte tyn hida lond hire in æhte in þære stowe seo is cweden Streoneshealh, ðær heo mynster getimbrode. OE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 421) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 264 Ne helpeð þam men ænig wiht, þeah þe he ealne þysne middaneard on his agene æht gestryne, gif deofol nimð þa sawle. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11800 Þurrh þatt te laþe gast himm bæd. All weorelld richess ahhte. a1250 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Maidstone) (1955) 87 For ahte [a1275 Trin. Cambr. aycte] nis non eldere stren ac is godes lone. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 7307 (MED) This Priamus hadde in his yhte [1532 yght] A wif, and Hecuba sche hyhte. 1423 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 11/2 Twa forestar stedis..wyth al rycht merkis and marchys that thaim awch tyl haff off ald acht and custumis. a1500 Sir Degrevant (Cambr.) (1949) l. 842 (MED) I had leuere sche were sauȝth, Þen all þe golde in hys auȝth. 1590 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. 213 Saying, her sone sould be schort quhyle in her aucht; as he died within a schort space thairefter. 1691 Hutcheson's 45 Serm. on CXXX Psalm xxi. 239 They wait upon God, as if they never had a day to do well in his aught. 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. xxxiv. 60 The auld Dog maun die in some body's aught. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. vii. 166 The surest gear in their aught. 1868 J. Young Poems & Lyrics 175 The puir untutored wretch..Whase appetite ne'er lets him keep Scarce tippence in his aucht. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 43 Hei hasna a ferdin' in a' his aucht. 1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots 136 Fesh the brawest goun in my aucht an clead him in it. < as lemmas |
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