| 单词 | 'stead |
| 释义 | > as lemmas'stead f. stead of = instead of. (See instead adv.) Now only dialect and colloquial, and usually considered (also as 'stead) to represent instead adv. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > in place of [preposition] in (the) lieu ofc1290 in the stead ofa1325 stead of14.. in the way ofa1475 in the room of1526 in (the) place of1533 in the roomth of1565 instead1667 vice1770 14.. in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 76 The whyche..Songe a balad stede of the masse. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1494) ix. xxix. G ij Sabath desyrous to succede Stede of his brother the kingdom to possede. 1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke sig. Fv [He] who adiudg'd to death By his heads losse, should craue (stead of one stroke) To dye a lingring torment on the racke. 1791 E. Nairne Poems 131 And backwards, 'sted of forwards, walk. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 224 Or if, stead o' that, ye wad but dine wi' them at the Change-house. 1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm xxvi. 279 Rebecca's fifty dollars had to be swallowed up in a mortgage, 'stead of goin' towards school expenses. 1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion ii. 121 I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 283 They ought to told you every last word first stead of trying every which way to kinder smear it out poison long. 1971 Black World Oct. 62/1 The sweet-potato bread was a dollar quarter this time stead of dollar regular. 1978 J. Thomson Question of Identity x. 100 He'd've been all right with me... 'Stead of which..he marries her. < as lemmas |
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