| 单词 | quit and free | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasquit and free  a.  Exempt or released from an obligation, debt, etc.; free, clear. Also (more emphatically)  †quit and free.  to be quit for: to get off with, suffer nothing more than.  to pass (also go, escape, etc.) quit: to escape unharmed; to go unchecked or unpunished. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > 			[adjective]		 > getting rid of > rid of quit?c1225 society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > 			[adjective]		 > clear of or free from obligation quit?c1225 quiet1473 ?c1225						 (?a1200)						    Ancrene Riwle 		(Cleo. C.vi)	 		(1972)	 4  				For sum is strong. sum vn strong. & mei fulwel beon quite [c1230 Corpus cwite] & Paien god mid lesse. a1300    Passion our Lord 370 in  R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. 		(1872)	 47 (MED)  				Hit is eur kustume to habbe quyt enne At eure Muchele feste euervyche yere; Schal ich þere gywene kyng lete gon al skere? ?a1400						 (a1338)						    R. Mannyng Chron. 		(Petyt)	 		(1996)	  i. 1218  				With luf & leue he quede vs quite, & gyf vs schippes in to wende. a1425						 (?c1350)						    Ywain & Gawain 		(1964)	 685  				Bot so he wend have passed quite. a1475    in  A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery 		(1905)	  i. 266 (MED)  				For the whiche resceivyng he claymed the forsaid Religeous women quytte fro all impeticion or axyng..of the cc li. 1497–8    in  G. Neilson  & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes 		(1918)	 II. 127  				Now am I fully quyt As twichand Venus of myn ald promyt Quhilk I hir maid. 1509    A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys 		(Pynson)	 f. lxxviiiv  				The great fysshe ar taken..Where as the small escapyth quyte and fre. ?1577    J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 52  				What faultes great men alwayes committe, Are pardoned still, and goeth quitte. 1609    J. Skene tr.  Regiam Majestatem 22  				Gif the persewer compeirs nocht..the defender sall passe quite. 1671    J. Milton Paradise Regain'd  i. 477  				I..must submiss endure Check or reproof, and glad to scape so quit .       View more context for this quotation 1768    T. Gray Let. 28 Jan. in  Corr. 		(1971)	 III. 998  				We..are quit for the fright, except the damage abovementioned. 1808    W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius II. xix. 716  				The judgment shall be against him only..and the other shall go quit. 1852    W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. xiii. 307  				Harry Esmond was quit for a fall on the grass. 1866    J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. v. 124  				When the book was restored the borrower [was] declared quit. 1928    Eng. Hist. Rev. 43 322  				This charter confers the right of having one man quit from tallage in every royal borough. quit and free ΚΠ a1400						 (c1303)						    R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 		(Harl.)	 9827 (MED)  				Þan ys oure charter quyte and clere, Confermyng with þe bysshopes powere. ?a1400						 (a1338)						    R. Mannyng Chron. 		(Petyt)	  ii. 83 (MED)  				William passid þe se, þer of he mad þe skrite, Of France to hold þat fe of oþer tenement alle quite. c1460    in  A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey 		(1907)	 65 (MED)  				Knowe ye me to haue i-yeve..þe goter or locke, þat is i-callid aldewere, fre and quite. c1475						 (?c1300)						    Guy of Warwick 		(Caius)	 10842 (MED)  				Thys day halfen-deale Englond I wyll sease into thyn hand Euer-more quyte and free. a1500    Eng. Conquest Ireland 		(Rawl.)	 		(1896)	 67 (MED)  				The Statutes or constytuciones of that consayle ben this..that al the landis of holy church and har Possessiones of al Erthly askynge be quyte. a1500						 (c1425)						    Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. 		(Nero)	  vii. l. 3546  				Schir Wilȝame til haf þat qwyte, To halde in fre barowny. 1876    J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl.  i. i. 4  				Free and quit from all custom, synodal rent, aids, lodgings and conreds. < as lemmas | 
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