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单词 ready armed
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ready armed
a. In predicative use, as ready armed, ready bent, ready cooked, etc.In later use often hyphenated, as in sense A. 6c.
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1620 (MED) Also daunces disgisi redi diȝt were.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 449 Evere his bowe is redi bent.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 2533 Fifty þousand knyȝtes here be-side, Redy armyd in platis and in maille.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 22 Than the kynge lette purvey a grete feste..And so the tyme drove on and all thynges redy ipurveyed.
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. cxxviii Ye sotle foxe make ye gose come flyenge in to his hole ready prepared for his mouth with out his laboure.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Josh. iv. C Aboute a fortye thousande men ready harnessed to the warre.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 26v Of gossampine cotton ready spunne foure great bottomes.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 813 Then the Orator Agnonides holding a decree in his hand ready wrytten, red it openly to the people.
1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) v. xvii. 542 Duckes, sometimes raw, and sometimes ready dressed.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 212 Ready mounted are they to spit forth Their Iron indignation 'gainst your walles. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife iii. 27 If Woman had been ready created, the Devil..had been Married.
1713 A. Pope in Guardian 10 June Old Troy is ready burnt to your Hands.
1767 J. Woodforde Diary 24 July (1924) I. 64 My father sent me down a couple of fowls ready roasted.
1796 J. Woodforde Diary 15 Oct. (1929) IV. 314 They have let their House ready furnished to a Revd. Mr. Beevor.
1814 Q. Rev. Oct. 76 Coining words when he did not find them ready minted for his use.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. vi. 198 Clothes ready-made, and meat ready-cooked.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 107 The composition of potash-, soda-, and ammonia-alums found ready formed in nature.
1952 J. B. Oldham Eng. Blind-stamped Bindings 3 Sale of books ready-bound.
1974 M. Gilbert Flash Point xx. 165 He..had a stirrup pump, a relic of the last war, ready primed in the hall.
2000 Z. Sardar Consumption Kuala Lumpur 94 At amazing bargain prices you can buy washable silk in four-and-a-half metre pieces, ready-printed or hand-painted.
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