单词 | outward bound |
释义 | > as lemmasoutward bound 2. Prepared or purposing to go, starting, directing one's course, destined. With for (to, into obsolete), or adverb of motion. Phrases, homeward bound, outward bound. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [adjective] boundc1400 bent1697 destinedc1790 city-bound1844 space-bound1955 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > on course [phrase] > bound for bound1589 up1870 c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 3788 When thai saw him theder bown. c1440 Gesta Romanorum i. xii. 33 Deere frend..whodir art thou bone? 1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados ix. vii. 21 Quhiddir ar ȝe boun, ȝe schaw vs plane. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H3 A Barke bounde for Arcadie. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vi. 9 Th' Embassador that was bound for England. View more context for this quotation 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 156. ⁋1 We may see the Son of Ulysses bound on the same Expedition. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. viii. 370 He gave out at Macao, that he was bound to Batavia. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. x. 226 You see a Traveller, Bound upon hard adventure. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 635 The ships which were bound for New England were crowded. 1866 J. F. W. Herschel Familiar Lect. Sci. Subj. 206 Bound on we know not what errand. < as lemmas |
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