单词 | leader-away |
释义 | > as lemmasleader-away a. gen. in various senses of the verb: One who conducts, precedes as a guide, leads a person by the hand or an animal by a cord, etc. Also with adverbs, as leader-away, leader-on, for which see the corresponding verbal phrases. follow my leader: see follow v. Phrases 5. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > one who guides or leads way-witterc1275 leadera1300 lodesmanc1300 predecessora1325 guide1362 duistre1393 conduct1423 way-leaderc1450 guiderc1475 conductor1481 leadsmanc1510 janissary1565 Palinurus1567 forerunner1576 convoy1581 mercury1592 pilota1635 accompanier1753 runner1867 a1300 E.E. Psalter liv. 14 Mi leder, and mi kowth sa gode. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 1454 (1482) Oon thynketh þe bere But al a-nother thynketh his ledere. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xv. 14 Thei ben blynde, and lederis of blynde men. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. viii. 418 Curlewes haue guydes and ledars as cranes haue for they drede the goshawke. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 5675 Withouten ledar nedit he [a man struck blind] To abyde behynd. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 20 He suld ger Bath the sleuthhund & the ledar Tyne the sleuth men ger him ta. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. xi. 5 Blyithlie following his ledair Achates. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Leder awaye, abductor. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. ii. 2 You were wont to be a follower, but now you are a Leader . View more context for this quotation 1633 J. Ford Broken Heart i. ii. sig. B4 Without Reason; Voycing the Leader-on a Demi-god. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 451 Leader to free Enjoyment of our right as Gods. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 112 Ample Plains..Where oft the Flocks, without a Leader stray. View more context for this quotation 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiii. 112 Follow your leader, boys, and take pattern by Smike if you dare. 1861 J. Edmond Children's Church at Home i. 17 Christ is..a leader to all that trust him. < as lemmas |
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