| 单词 | at the long |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat the long (i) Also † at the long. After a long time, at length; in the end. rare after 16th cent. (regional in later use).In later use only in collocation with at last; cf. by long and by last at Phrases 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adverb] > in the end or at last umbe longeOE at (the) long runninga1450 at longc1450 at length1525 at the length1525 at (the) long run1607 in the long run1768 in (also on, upon) the long run1814 c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3498 (MED) Lat vs leue him at longe & lende to oure hames. c1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 112 (MED) Ye may the better labour at the long, When ye haue myrthe your besynes among. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 579/2 I shall purpose to treate of thys matter more at long. ?1571 G. Buchanan Chamaeleon in Vernacular Writings (1892) 49 At lang having deliberat to take him with him,..he fand him to be trew in deid all yat he suspectit afoir. 1836 Court Mag. May 219/1 At long and at last, by the greatest seamanship it arrived at the other side. 1901 Northern Counties Mag. June 175 When at long and at last I come. < as lemmas |
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