单词 | kidnapping |
释义 | > as lemmasˈkidˈnapping ˈkidˈnapping n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > [noun] rape1436 abreption1550 man-stealing1577 plagium1577 raptc1614 abduction1632 man-stealth1663 plagiary1673 kidnapping1682 enlevement1769 plagiat1809 body-snatching1840 kidnappery1890 snatching1931 shanghaiing1985 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > kidnapper or abductor > [adjective] plagiarian1656 kidnapping1887 1682 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 187 The witnesses..were..to prove that there was..such a trade as kidnapping or spiriting away children. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xv. 219 The other remaining offence, that of kid~napping, being the forcible abduction or stealing away of man, woman, or child from their own country, and selling them into another. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft iv. 127 This kid~napping of the human race, so peculiar to the whole Elfin people. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 365 The kidnapping of persons of free condition was not unknown. 1887 Athenæum 19 Mar. 375/3 The kidnapping grandmother..is not so repellent as might be supposed. < as lemmas |
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