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单词 keep one's house
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to keep one's house
(b) To maintain and preside over a household; (also †to keep one's house) to have one's home, reside (in a place). to keep house with: to reside in and maintain a house with; similarly to keep house together. Also figurative. Now archaic. [Compare Middle French tenir maison, used with adverb of place (a1407).]
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)]
wonc725
erdec893
siteOE
liveeOE
to make one's woningc960
through-wonOE
bigc1175
walkc1225
inwonea1300
lenda1300
lenga1300
lingera1300
erthec1300
stallc1315
lasta1325
lodge1362
habit?a1366
breeda1375
inhabitc1374
indwella1382
to have one's mansionc1385
to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400
keepc1400
repairc1400
to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405
to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425
winc1425
to make (one's) residence1433
resort1453
abidec1475
use1488
remaina1500
demur1523
to keep one's house1523
occupy1523
reside1523
enerdc1540
kennel1552
bower1596
to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597
subsist1618
mansiona1638
tenant1650
fastena1657
hospitate1681
wont1692
stay1754
to hang out1811
home1832
habitate1866
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > inhabit house
to hold or keep householdc1425
housec1440
to keep house1523
to take up housec1600
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxv. f. lvi/1 The kyng withall his nauy lay in the hauyn of Sluse and there he kept his house.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxii[i]. 9 Which maketh the baren woman to kepe house.
1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. B2 When the fiery spirit of hot youth Kept house within me.
1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty 14 I am Poverty;..One that hath kept house with you this thirty years and upwards.
1702 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 172 Her majestie will not begin to keep house as queen till the 1st of July.
1793 European Mag. & London Rev. Feb. 98/1 At that period he and a maiden sister kept house together.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 2 In this the children play'd at keeping house.
1890 Temple Bar Sept. 43 The pair began to keep house upon love and hope.
1908 Northeastern Reporter 83 90/2 While in Springfield he kept house and was registered as a voter there.
1945 C. R. Fay Life & Labour in Nineteenth Cent. (ed. 3) ii. 17 Imperialism was picked up by protection, and for some years the two kept house together in uneasy..companionship.
1994 J. Updike Brazil xxvi. 211 Farms..where a single couple..kept house with their chickens and pigs.
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to keep one's (or the) house
(d) to keep one's (or the) house: to stay indoors; to be confined to the house, as by illness, etc.; = to keep to the house at to keep to —— 2 at keep v. Phrasal verbs 2. Now rare.Formerly also: †to stay in the house for the purpose of guarding it (figurative in quot. 1608). Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > inhabit house > remain indoors
firec1500
to keep one's (or the) house1542
to keep up1704
to settle in1817
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 4 Sundrie persons..kepe their houses, not mindinge to paie..their debts.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 146 Beyng sicke, and therefore kepyng his house.
1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices i. 6 Both his eyes are neuer at once from home, but one keepes house while the other roues abroad for intelligence.
1794 A. M. Bennett Ellen II. 62 Sure, there is no necessity for us to keep house till she arrives.
1822 C. Abbott in R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench I. 61 Did not the bankrupt begin to keep house as a mode of absenting himself with an intent to delay his creditors?
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 45 Weakening the man, till he could do no more, But kept the house, his chair, and last his bed.
1902 P. E. Pinkerton tr. H. Düntzer Life Schiller (new ed.) iii. 476 Directly after that Schiller had to keep his house for a couple of days.
1914 O. J. Campbell & F. Schenck tr. L. Holberg Comedies 23 When the nobleman saw how big his head looked..he burst into tears... They say that he kept the house for several days.
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