| 单词 | in prison |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin prison a. Without article, frequently preceded by a preposition, as to prison, in prison. Originally: the condition of being kept in captivity or confinement; forcible deprivation of personal liberty; imprisonment. Hence (now the usual sense): a place of incarceration (see sense 1b). to break prison: to escape from prison. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] prisonOE wardc1290 prisoning1344 keepingc1384 imprisonment1389 prisonment1422 jail1447 fasteningc1460 warding1497 firmancea1522 incarcerationc1540 imprisoningc1542 limbo1590 limbus?a1600 endurance1610 jailing1622 restraint1829 carceration1870 holiday1901 Paddy Doyle1919 bird1924 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] prisonOE bonda1225 beclosing?c1225 narrowth?c1225 holdc1330 banda1400 festinance1426 duressc1430 enclosingc1440 closeness1530 durancea1535 closure1592 reclusedness1613 confinement1646 immurement1736 immuration1895 hack1899 prisonment1900 lockdown1973 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1076 Se kyngc syððan com to Englalande & gefeng Rogcer eorl his mæg, & sette on prisun. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1112 Rotbert de Bælesme he let niman & on prisune don. ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Þa namen hi þa men..& diden heom in prisun. a1300 Passion our Lord 145 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 41 (MED) Þeyh ich to þe deþe schulle myd þe go Oþer in-to prysune..Ic nele neuer þe vorsake. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2070 Ðu salt ben ut of prisun numen. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 9556 (MED) Til his aun fa felun Was he be-taght for to prisun [v.rr. presoun, preson, prisoun]. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 40 A place whare oure Lord was done in prisoun. 1448 J. Northwood in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 59 Sum ben in pryson in the jayll at Couentre. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 124 Ther þe kyng tok þe principalis of London and sette hem in prison at Wyndesore. a1500 (?a1410) J. Lydgate Churl & Bird (Lansd.) 99 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 472 (MED) Song & prisoun haue noon accordaunce; Trowistow I wole syngen in prisoun? c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. Civ Yf ony thing in this lettre be vntrue I am contente that your grace giue vnto me therfore perpetuell prison. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxlv[i]. 7 The Lorde lowseth men out of preson. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 665 The King caused him to be clapt in prison, but he brake prison. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone v. xii. sig. O Thou art to lie in prison, crampt with irons, Till thou bee'st sick, and lame indeed. View more context for this quotation 1621 Execution at Prague in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 411 Remain in perpetual prison. 1662 C. Culpeper in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1911) 2nd Ser. 152 (note) I haue some Quakers..in prison which I doe intend to let goe upon taking the Oath. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite i, in Fables 17 While I Must languish in Despair, in Prison die. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 381 Sir Harbottle's father..lay long in prison, because he would not pay the loan-money. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 150 It would go to the very heart of her to send such a tender young creature to prison. 1779 T. Digges Let. 15 Nov. in B. Franklin Papers (1995) XXXI. 98 I fear another squad may be induced to break Prison... These breaking outs, are not only disagreeable, but at times highly distressing. 1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 860 If a man be imprisoned..on the 1st day of January, and kept in prison till the 1st day of February..the whole is one entire trespass. 1850 J. Wilson Ann. Hawick 137 [anno 1727] Walter Scott, town councillor, is degraded as such by the council..in respect of his twice breaking prison, after being convict by the bailies of a riot. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 490 Others he put in prison, others he embowelled. 1897 Daily News 30 Aug. 5/1 Prison for lads should be the last, and not the first, resort. 1948 A. Paton Cry, Beloved Country i. xiv. 96 He is in prison, arrested for the murder of a white man. 1974 M. Tippett Moving into Aquarius 22 When I was in prison I was struck..by the gaiety and vitality of the group of comrades there. 1997 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. 9/1 The judges..ruled as unlawful the policy..that ‘whole life’ tariff prisoners would not be able to gain release later through their progress in prison and lack of dangerousness to society. < as lemmas |
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