单词 | in one's person |
释义 | > as lemmasin one's (own) person in one's (own) person adv. a. = in person at Phrases 4. Also (now chiefly Law) in (one's) proper person. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > present [phrase] > in person in (one's) proper persona1325 in one's (own) persona1393 in person1436 in one's own personagec1534 in propria persona1654 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 71 (MED) The fortune of this worldes chance..noman in his persone Mai knowe, bot the god al one. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 1487 Deiphebus..Com hire to prey, in his propre persone, To holde hym on the morwe compaignie. 1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 52/1 The said John Myrfeld, Richard Ledys, and either of theym, in their propre persone and persones, appiere afore your Highnes in your Bench at Westminster. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Dvi He wolde be in his owne persone, the example of our hole iourney. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxxv They haue ofte intreated you, sometime by their Ambassadours, and somtime in their own persons. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. xvii. 11 Goe to battell in thine owne person . View more context for this quotation 1659 T. Hooker Applic. of Redemption x. 53 A Traveller, that in his own person hath taken a view of many Coasts. 1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 815 No Constable shall distrein any Knight to give Money for Castle-Guard, if he will perform it in his own Person. 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (1813) 17 The pivot leader..will begin in his own person to circle behind the line. 1867 Cassell's Mag. 1 287/2 These dinners he must eat in hall in his own person. 1894 Idler Sept. 207 Anxious to try, in his own person, the effect of wedding what one may call the Prickly Young Person. 1937 Times 12 May 13/6 Leave the job to someone who is prepared to do the right thing and who is prepared to suffer in his own proper person. 2000 Las Vegas Rev.-Jrnl. (Nevada) (Nexis) 30 July 1 j Mrs. Duke now represents herself ‘in proper person’ as the case finally heads to trial. b. In one's own character, form, or voice (as opposed to that of a fictional character or adopted guise). Also: †in one's proper role or capacity (obsolete). Cf. sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [phrase] > in his, its, etc., self > in one's own character in one's (own) persona1402 a1402 J. Trevisa tr. Dialogus Militem et Clericum (Harl.) 31 We graunteþ þat clerkes in her owne persoone beþ fre, but nouȝt þei þat lede her lif as lewide men & nouȝt as clerkes to þe worschipe..of oure Lord. 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso Pref. Another fault is, that he [sc. Arisoto] speaketh so much in his own person by digression, which they say..is against the rules of Poetrie. 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis i. xii. 31 Sometimes..hee was seene an old man, sometimes younger, sometimes in his owne person. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. v. 133 Not such as the Poet would speak, if he were to speak in his own person. 1753 J. Warton in C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid ix, in J. Warton et al. tr. Virgil Wks. IV. 48 (note) The poet says but little in his own person, but makes his actors say a great deal. 1840 T. De Quincey Style: No. II in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 398/1 What man in his senses would employ it [sc. Doric dialect] in a grave work, and speaking in his own person? 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 266 The poet is speaking in his own person. 1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 73 If a writer wishes to give the effect of speech he must positively give the effect of himself talking in his own person or in one of his rôles. 1999 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 24 Feb. (Literary section) 7 One could speak, like Lear's fool, by not speaking in one's own person or by seeming to speak in jest. < as lemmas |
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