| 单词 | set table |
| 释义 | > as lemmasset table b. Of a meal, a meeting for business or pleasure: Carefully pre-arranged; attended with some degree of ceremony or formality; stated, regular, formal. So †set table. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > ceremony or formality > [adjective] > full of or accompanied by ceremony or formality solemnc1369 solemned1423 solenc1460 solemnel?1473 formal1596 set1606 ceremoniousa1616 circumstantial1710 full dress1776 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 71 He feasted daily: and never otherwise than at a set table [L. cena recta]. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures ii. 3 Keeping a set table for above seven hundred persons. 1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 95 They have one most egregious piece of Roguery more, and that is playing the High-Game at Putt; and this is to be done but once at a Sett-meeting. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §14 (1699) 21 The Romans usually fasted till Supper; the only set Meal, even of those who eat more than once a Day. 1718 Free-thinker No. 19. 2 His Physitians advised him to leave off Set Suppers. 1818 Princess Jablonowski in Lady Morgan Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 166 It is not a set party, but one without full dress or ceremony. 1862 Chamb. Encycl. at Curling These bon~spiels or set matches, are contested with immense spirit. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxii. 495 The ambassador would fain have discussed such grave matters only at a set audience. < as lemmas |
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