单词 | beyond seas |
释义 | > as lemmasbeyond seas beyond seas n. out of the country; abroad.extracted from beyondadv.prep.n.beyond seas 11. beyond sea (also beyond the sea, beyond the seas, beyond seas). Out of the country, in foreign parts, abroad. Cf. beyond prep. 1. Also beyond-sea adj.. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in or to foreign land(s) beyond the seasc900 without1297 o brodea1400 on brodea1400 abroada1450 overseas1583 oversea1616 in foreigna1640 foreign1813 over sea1845 exterritorially1853 out foreign1895 c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) v. xix. 458 Mid þy he þa gena wæs begeondan sæ wuniende. a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1041 (MS. C.) Fram begeondan sæ. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14547 Sum fleh bi-ȝeonden sæ in-to Bruttaine. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 165 Ine þe londe be-yende þe ze. 1485 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 28 A standyng bed, corven with estrich borde of beyond see makyng. 1536 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Court Admiralty (1894) I. 56 All my goods whersoever they may be found as well on this syde the see as beyende the see. 1555 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 227 Sindry schippis cumin furth of Burdeaux, Scherand, and vtheris places beyond sey. 1590 J. Smythe in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) (Camden) 58 When her Majestie called me from beeyond the seas. 1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. ii. 23 The Reformed Churches beyond the Seas. 1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 26 Oct. (1948) I. 73 He is a very ingenious man, and a great scholar, and has been beyond sea. 1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot xxxii The husband, or lover, may have been out of the way—beyond seas, perhaps. < as lemmas |
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