单词 | before face |
释义 | > as lemmasbefore (a person's) face a. before (a person's) face: before (a person's) eyes, in front of (a person). before the face of: before the eyes of, in the sight of (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adverb] > before one's sight in one's sightc1275 before (a person's) facec1380 before the face of1574 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 192 Þe man y trist an most for-sakeþ me at my nede, & draȝþ ys swerd bi-fore my fas. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10460 Bot i him saw bifore mi face? ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 845 (MED) Þai had grace And loue before þe bischope face. 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) i. iii. 16 Let vs cast downe our selues before the face of our good God, with acknowledgement of our sinnes. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 370 The Prince..causing euery one of them to recite the praise of Mahomet before his face. 1656 B. Harris in tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age Contin. 284 Arras..was taken..before the face of thirty thousand men. 1721 T. D'Urfey Two Queens Brentford ii. i Bring me the Caitiff here before my Face. 1796 W. Woodfall Impartial Rep. Deb. Parl. III. 324 His dog might be seized with impunity, and hanged before his face. 1843 A. Sedgwick Let. in J. W. Clark & T. M. Hughes Life & Lett. A. Sedgwick (1890) II. 63 Never having once fallen during my retrogradations before the face of the Queen. 1862 F. D. Maurice Mod. Philos. 604 Bentham brought these contradictions before the face of those who were committing them. 1980 M. Z. Bradley Two to Conquer i. 123 He would cut off..[his] cuyones and roast them before his face! < as lemmas |
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