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单词 on pain of life
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on (also †in, †of, †under, upon) pain of life
P4. on (also †in, †of, †under, upon) pain of life: subject to the penalty of death. In early use with possessive adjective; occasionally also with and limb and other nouns. Cf. on pain of death at pain n.1 1b. Now archaic.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [adverb] > subject to penalty of death
on (also in, of, under, upon) pain of lifec1330
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 3650 It was forboden..Ich man bi way forto gon..Opon pain of her liue.
c1400 Life St. Anne (Minn.) (1928) 1378 Of payne of lyf & lym he bade.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 1217 (MED) Þe myche tresour..Luke it be done and delte to my dere pople That none pleyn of theire parte o peyne of ȝour lyfez.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. x. sig. c.viiiv Cease of suche busynesse, in peyne of thy lyue.
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War ii. v. sig. I iiii They did defende vpon payne of lyfe, that no man shulde propone nor put into deliberation to take of the sayd thousande talentes.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 134 You cousin Hereford vpon paine of life, Til twice fiue summers haue enricht our fields, Shall not regreete our faire dominions. View more context for this quotation
1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 50 Enioyning them vpon paine of life to take no other sort of reward.
1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples i. 77 That all Cavaliers, under paine of life should deliver their Armes.
1687 A. Behn Amours Philander & Silvia 216 She ordered her Porter to be call'd, and gave him Orders, upon pain of Life, not to tell of my being in the House.
1729 F. Midon Hist. Masaniello 195 Long live the King of Spain, and let none from henceforth upon Pain of Life obey Masaniello.
1765 T. Mortimer New Hist. Eng. II. 7/1 It was also enacted, that none should, upon pain of life and limb, read the Scriptures in English.
1834 W. Betham Orig. & Hist. Constit. Eng. iv. 87 [Leicester] ordained..that no one should bear arms, without the king's license, on pain of life and limb.
1928 P. Haworth Elizabethan Story-bk. 62 Above all things, he should not fail to await his coming besides the churchyard of St. Francis', and upon pain of life to keep his intent in silence.
1992 F. R. P. Akehurst tr. P. de Beaumanoir Coutumes de Beauvaisis lx. 622 The count can and should take the quarrel into his own hands and forbid them on pain of life and property to do harm to each other.
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