请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 quit and free
释义

> as lemmas

quit 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.
extracted from quitadj.
quit and free
c. Law. Of real property: exempt or released of or from taxes, service, or other claims. Also more emphatically quit and free (also free and quit). quit and clear: free of encumbrances. Obsolete (historical in later use).
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.
extracted from quitadj.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 21:42:14