单词 | old debt |
释义 | > as lemmasold debt a. That has been borne or sustained for a long time, as old debt, old grudge. Cf. old score n. at Compounds 4. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) ii. v. 47 Se Themestocles gemyndgade Ionas þære ealdan fæhþe þe Xersis him to geworht hæfde. OE Cynewulf Juliana 623 Lætað hy laþra leana hleotan þurh wæpnes spor, wrecað ealdne nið, synne gesohte. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 1183 Hit is for þine alde [a1300 Jesus Oxf. olde] niȝe þat þu me akursedest oðer siðe. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 163 (MED) Þe way was opened forto take wreche of al olde wreþþe. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 3067 (MED) Commaundeth þat Parys..parforme vp þe peyne of talioun For wrongis old. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 840 Or we departe we shall redresse all our olde sorys. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. ix. sig. Riij The people called Dores..wolde aduenge their olde grudges agayne the Atheniensis. 1706 Wooden World Diss. (1708) 19 Not purely for their presumptuous Assumption of his proper Title, but out of an old Grutch. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 505 In satisfaction of an old debt due to him from the crown. 1882 Ballou's Monthly Mag. July 63/1 I do think it's really mean in you to oppose our marriage just because of that silly old grudge. 1995 M. Lewis Singapore: Rough Guide 165/2 Essentially, Chinese New Year is a family affair—old debts are settled, friends and relatives visited. < as lemmas |
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