单词 | as god is my judge |
释义 | > as lemmasas God is my judge c. In asseverations, as as God is my judge, as God is my witness, †so God me bless, †so God me mend, etc. Also with omission of so or as, and occasional alteration of the verb. Cf. as conj. 13, so adv. and conj. 19.so help me God, so God me rede, so God me speed, so God save me: see the verbs.marry (a) God: see marry int. 2a. [With as God is my witness compare post-classical Latin Deo teste (13th cent. in a British source).] ΚΠ c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 655 (MED) Child, so god þe rede, How were þou fram rohand lorn? c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1575 ‘Wolleþ ȝe ȝou defende?’..‘Ȝea, so god me mende.’ c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Thopas/Melibeus Link (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 4 Also wisly god my soule blesse Myne erys aken of thy drasty speche. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 149 No, so God me blys. 1589 Rare Triumphes Loue & Fortune iv. sig. D.ivv As god iuggle me when I came neere them [etc.]. 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iv. i. sig. H4v As Gods my iudge, they should haue kild me first. View more context for this quotation 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. ii. sig. Ev I am asham'd of this base course of life (God's my comfort) but [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster iv. 48 God iudge me, I vnderstand you not. 1761 London Mag. Dec. 670/1 How they should be bloody, as God is my saviour, I cannot answer. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clare in Poems (new ed.) II. 196 ‘As God's above!’ said Alice the nurse, ‘I speak the truth: you are my child.’ 1893 E. Saltus Madam Sapphira 133 As God is my witness that girl is as straight as your sister. 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xxv. 428 As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. 1974 B. Friel Freedom of City in Sel. Plays (1984) 157 As God's my judge he was stuck in it for two days and two nights. 2005 Z. Smith On Beauty 427 I am gonna strike you down where you stand, as God is my witness, I will wear your ass out today. < as lemmas |
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