单词 | prest and ready |
释义 | > as lemmasprest and (also or) ready b. prest and (also or) ready, readily prest, ready prest. ΚΠ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. vii. 13 He in whom thes thingis ben seid is of another lynage, of the which no man was prest or redy to the auter. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 194v Þere is moche chiualerie..alweye preste [L. promptam] and redy to armes. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xv. 42 To see that althyng be redyly prest at hande. a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 1585 Greffon with swerdes fors was redy and preste. 1526 W. Bonde Rosary sig. Ciii All was prest and redy. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccv .xv. thousand men, euen ready prest to set on the citie of Yorke. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxv. xxxv. 909 The Ætolians..were ready and prest to come to Lacedæmon. 1632 P. Holland tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia 27 I may find them [sc. soldiers] prest and ready for any service. 1675 T. Brooks Golden Key 35 He is ready prest to break all. 1717 S. Wesley Hist. New Test. in Verse cxxviii. 256 Ye Angels! were your Swords in vain? Whose shining Myriads prest and ready stand. < as lemmas |
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