| 单词 | at rovers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat rovers (rarely rover) Phrases at rovers (rarely rover). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > have no fixed abode waggerc1380 to walk at rovers1528 stroll1603 to live out of (or from) a suitcase (or suitcases)1969 1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 228/1 The order is rebuked by priestes begging and lewde liuing, which either is fayne to walke at rouers and liue upon trentalles or worse or els [etc.]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues À veuë de païs, at random, roaming, at rouers, at large. 1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 288 Walk at random and at rovers in your by-paths, if you please. 1647 J. Cleveland Rebell Scot in Char. London-diurnall (new ed.) 42 Hence 'tis, they live at Rovers; and defie This or that place, Rags of Geographie. b. In a haphazard or random manner; at random; without definite aim or object; (also) erratically, indiscriminately. rare after early 18th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] > randomly or haphazardly into uncertain1382 uncertainlya1387 at adventure (also adventures)c1390 at or on six and sevena1398 auntersa1450 at all adventure (also adventures)1485 by hab or by nab1530 at rovers (rarely rover)c1531 hab or nab1542 hitty-missy1553 rovingly1583 haphazard1600 random1619 unsight, unseena1627 happy-be-lucky1633 cross and pile1648 temerariously1669 happy-go-lucky1672 à tort et à travers1749 randomly1765 chance-medley1822 haphazardly1832 willy-nilly1908 by guess and by God (or Godfrey)1931 c1531 G. Joye Lett. Ashwell to Lyncolne sig. Aiiij At rovers so confusely confoundinge one Euangelist with a nother to confute your false opinion. 1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 786/2 Either their dede and declaracion must nedes stande and be firme, or els all runne at rouers and nothing be certain or sure. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiiv Leat not your tong ron at rouer. 1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica vii. 205 A giddy Ostrich..having laid hir first Eg at rovers on the sands. 1685 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II I. vi. 489 We must necessarily think of God at Rovers, without any certain aim or rule to..direct our apprehensions. 1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 3 A Man were better have no Mark before him, but live at Rovers, without any End or Design at all. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 192 The god nine Days the Greeks at Rovers kill'd. 1739 A. Nicol Nature without Art 106 But some Men say, this Goddess she is blind, And deals at Rovers to all human Kind. 1912 A. Preuss tr. J. Pohle God i. iii. 94 The God of the Deists allows the mighty engine of the universe to run at rovers and permits the droll little creatures called men to disport themselves as they please. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > use language nonsensically [verb (intransitive)] roya1450 to talk (or speak) at rovers1542 nonsense1822 squiddle1824 twaddle1825 fudge1834 buncomize1871 to be full of prunes1887 waffle1900 jive1928 bullshit1942 to talk out of one's arse1973 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 288v Thy dooynges o Cato dooen more nere approche vnto the spirite of prophecie... Menyng that Cato talked at rouers. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvi. 462 These particularities..doe euidently shewe that Moyses speaketh not at rouers. 1606 Sir Gyles Goosecappe i. i. sig. A3v A good bustling Gallant talkes well at Rouers. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 337 After several Discourses at Rovers, he told me, He was very much troubl'd for me. 1725 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 178 Unless I had then a fuller view of circumstances than I have, I can only talk at rovers in it. < as lemmas |
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