| 单词 | in a body |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin a body (a) Of persons. Frequently in in a body: together, collectively. Cf. student body n. at student n.1 Compounds 1b. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > a complex whole > an organized or collective whole altogethereOE body1340 corpse1533 universality1561 globe?1594 orb1603 ensemble1703 organism1768 organity1929 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered weredc725 trumec893 thrumOE wharfOE flockOE farec1275 lithc1275 ferd1297 companyc1300 flotec1300 routc1300 rowc1300 turbc1330 body1340 numberc1350 congregation1382 presencec1390 meiniec1400 storec1400 sum1400 manya1425 collegec1430 peoplec1449 schoola1450 turm1483 catervea1492 garrison?a1513 shoal1579 troop1584 bevy1604 roast1608 horde1613 gross1617 rhapsody1654 sortment1710 tribe1715 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 221 (MED) Þerhuyle þet hy byeþ y-uestned togidere be spoushod, þe on to þe oþre, hi byeþ o body. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Descr. Germanie vi, in Annales 269 The Semnones..by their great bodie, they take themselues to be the head of the Sueuians. 1637 Abp. J. Williams Holy Table i. 6 He should do to bring them in; and would all in a body make a journey to the Bishop. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 10 A whole Body (consisting of number of Persons). 1677 C. Hatton Let. 23 Oct. in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 152 The clergy did not goe in a body. 1705 Boston News-let. 23 Sept. 2/1 Forces were sent out of the Fort to suppress them, and the Sheriff, Officers and some men belonging to Her Majesties Ships made a Body to do the same. 1755 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1831) I. 275 We might go and drink tea with Mr. Wise in a body. 1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds viii. 100 All formed in a body to go and meet the new arrivals. 1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree x. 136 They saw no obstacle in anything and charged the fence in a body. It flung them back like a catapult. 1963 K. S. Inglis Churches & Working Classes in Victorian Eng. ii. 86 But as a body the Wesleyans were proud of their prosperity. 1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xxxix. 447 But there was safety in numbers. They might have made northwards in a body for Georgia or Louisiana. < as lemmas |
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