单词 | over against |
释义 | > as lemmasover against (also †again, anent) b. Preceding a preposition. †over about: surrounding; over against (also †again, anent): †surrounding (obsolete); adjacent to, facing, opposite (in later use also figurative). See also over-right prep. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > opposite position > [adverb] anenteOE theregainsc1330 aforyena1400 overa1400 overthwarta1425 fornent1548 overright against1565 oppositelyc1593 opposite1609 over-right1618 squarely1802 en regard1909 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2844 (MED) Sodome and gomor wit al þe land þat our a-boute þam lai ner hand..es noþer leued, ne tre, ne gress. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 92v (MED) Sprede it þick apon a cloþe þat mowe comprehende þe wounde & alle þe parties wele oferre aboute þe wounde. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 46 Ouerynentes þe forsaid well es ane ymage of stane. c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (MED) The quene of Amozein, Hir londe ys ham oueragayn. 1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 19 Over a gens the forseyd yle of Cirigo. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark xiii. f. lxiiii As he sate on mounte olivete over ayenst the temple. 1589 R. Lane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 744 Not onely in the Islande, but also at Addesmocopeia in the mayne, within two leagues ouer against vs. 1622 J. Brinsley Consol. Gram. School 67 Hauing the Latin set ouer-against the Greek. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 139 Perah is ouer against Constantinople. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 261. ⁋1 The Wheat-Sheaf over-against Tom's Coffee-house. 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans II. 57 Thou build a stage over-a-munst my door. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 122 Ower-anenst, over-against, opposite. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire I sit just-a-meet o'er-anenst him, an' I could hear every word as he said. 1921 A. H. Hannay & R. G. Collingwood tr. G. de Ruggiero Mod. Philos. 201 Over against this actualistic concept of life,..we find maintained..an absolutely intellectualistic conception. 1966 Listener 1 Sept. 317/3 Over against Bruner's ‘mechanical account’—‘a child looking at empty and full beakers cannot dissociate his reactions from feelings about fullness and emptiness’. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 82 Over anunt, adjoining. 1990 Vital Speeches 1 June 490/2 They are divided among themselves..on moral and political issues which pit personal freedom over against equality of persons. < as lemmas |
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