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单词 in one's room
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in one's room
a. in one's room: in one's place.Also with rooms with a plural antecedent.
(a) Indicating substitution of one person for another (in early use with reference to an office or appointment). Now rare.
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1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iii. viii. sig. Miiij Takynge hys leue he sayth to the captayne that he shall putte another for hym in his rowme.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxix In whose roume afterward succeded George Selde a Ciuilan.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 53 b That he may be put from his office, and some other placed in his roome.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 69 Detaining many of them in prison..that others of his owne followers might bee placed in their roomes.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 285 Be thou in Adams room The Head of all mankind. View more context for this quotation
1706 J. Vanbrugh Mistake 11 A proposal..to take you (who then were just Camillo's age) and bring you up in his room.
1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 137 The names of the Earl of Granard..and Lord Sudley..to be added to the list in their room.
1800 W. Scott Let. 22 Apr. (1932) I. 97 I refer you for particulars to Joseph, in whose room I am now assuming the pen.
1883 Catholic Dict. at Carthusians With grief he [sc. St Bruno] left his beloved companions, the most prudent..of whom, Landwin, he appointed prior in his room.
1906 Times 4 Apr. 9/1 Eight of the lay assistant Commissioners..have been dismissed, and five Nationalists have been appointed in their room.
1959 D. Knowles Relig. Orders in Eng. III. xviii. 220 The confessor-general, Fewterer, left; Copynger was appointed in his room, and showed himself adequately subservient.
(b) Indicating substitution of one thing for another. Obsolete.
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1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. 220v To exclude vayne thoughtys and to put the lyfe of our lorde in theyr rowmes.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 285 Warre-thoughts, Haue left their places vacant: in their roomes, Come thronging soft and delicate desires. View more context for this quotation
1657 R. Austen Spirituall Use of Orchard (new ed.) 148 As these are removed the husbandman plants others in their roomes.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 172 If several Elms should die successively in the same Place, you should put Lime-Trees..in their Rooms.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 354 The old long hair falling off, and a shorter coat of hair appearing in its room.
1800 Lady's Monthly Museum Apr. 294 Hairs are plucked out of the forehead by pincers, and the smoothest mouse eye-brows, of all colours, put on by him in their room, with the nicest exactness.
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