单词 | before god! |
释义 | > as lemmasbefore God! a. With the full knowledge of, under the observation or attention of. Hence: in oaths and asseverations, as before God! (see god n. and int. Phrases 3a).See also to lay … before at lay v.1 17, to set before at set v.1 18c. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iv. viii. 99 Hannibal gecyþde þone niþ & þone hete þe he beforan his fæder geswor.., þæt he næfre ne wurde Romana freond. OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 8 Swa hwylc swa me andet beforan mannum [L. coram hominibus], þone mannes sunu andet beforan Godes englum. c1350 How Good Wife taught her Daughter (Emmanuel) (1948) l. 23 What man þat þe wedde schal bifor God..Loke þat þou him bowe. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvi. l. 140 By-for perpetual pees ich shal preoue þat ich seide, And a-vowe by-for God. 1534 T. Lupset tr. St. Isidore Gathered Counsailes f. ixv An yuel worde may not be hydde in silence, that thou doest or sayest within thy selfe. Beleue thou that hit is open before god. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures l. 200 I do solemnly swear unto you before the greatest of all the Gods..never to leave that Religion Which by your pleasure I shall be commanded to profess. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 9. ¶4 That of the Georges, which used to meet at the sign of the George..and swear Before George. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 234 The subject having been so recently before the public in all the diurnal prints. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. xii. 671 The accusations brought against these great men are before the world. 1935 G. Blake Shipbuilders i. 10 A fine flotilla, created by men who had the art of the thing in their blood, mighty craftsmen before the Lord. 2007 E. Irwin in B. MacLachlan & J. Fletcher Virginity Revisited i. 13 Hestia, despite the suits of Poseidon and Apollo, firmly resisted them and swore a great oath before Zeus that she would live forever virgin. < as lemmas |
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