| 单词 | at one's check |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat one's check b. in check: under restriction of freedom of movement or action, under control. So formerly at one's check, out of check. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > in check [phrase] at one's checka1575 in check1845 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > without restraint [phrase] without restraint1443 at range1568 out of checka1575 at random1590 at (a or the) loose1593 on (or upon) the loose1935 a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 78 Seeing our case is out of that checke. And as our case is not checked by God's law, etc. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Irelande ii. 43/2 in Chron. I Bearing themselues..for gouernors out of checke. 1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo f. 47 To confesse their owne weakenes which stand at his checke. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 145 A powerful prince..who could hold the Turks in check. 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 305 His task was..to keep Nugent in check. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. vii. 170 The common law of the desert found itself kept in check by the statute law of Palestine. < as lemmas |
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