单词 | taming |
释义 | tamingn. The action of tame v.1 Also attributive. ˈtaming-stick n. a kind of yoke for newly captured slaves. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s) > for the neck > stick for slaves gori1865 taming-stick1866 slave-fork1883 slave-stick1899 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 486/2 Tamynge fro wyyldenesse, domesticacio. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye i. sig. d8v What thou shalt do to the profyt of they neyghboure and taminge of thy flesh. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. ii. 55 Faith he is gone vnto the taming schoole..and Petruchio is the master. 1866 D. Livingstone 19 Sept. in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. iv. 107 Nearly all were in the taming-stick. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2019). > as lemmasˈtaming ˈtaming adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [adjective] mastering1590 subduing1608 subjectionala1617 subordinatinga1635 subordinative1642 captivating1675 taming1697 subjecting1760 mancipating1819 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 103 Let 'em run at large; and never know The taming Yoak. View more context for this quotation 1836 J. H. Newman et al. Lyra Apost. 202 Time hath a taming hand! 1894 A. Whyte S. Rutherford xi. 87 Tamed and softened..by that taming and softening book. < n.c1440 as lemmas |
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