单词 | to bear head against |
释义 | > as lemmasto bear head against ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move or cause to move forward or advance [verb (transitive)] > advance in spite of to bear head againsta1596 to make head against1841 a1596 G. Peele Loue King Dauid & Fair Bethsabe (1599) sig. Hij Then why should passions of much meaner power, Beare head against the heart of Israel. 1601 A. Munday tr. J. Teixeira Strangest Aduenture 64 Thus could and can the kingdome of Portugall beare head against the rest of Spaine. a1627 J. Hayward Ann. Four Years Elizabeth (1840) 43 Unable..to beare head against this storme. a1668 J. Alleine Divers Pract. Cases Conscience (1672) i. 4 To bear head against the current of the times, and to be for strict Godliness in all your ways, when the stream runs quite against it. 1742 G. Turnbull Observ. Liberal Educ. 399 Fortify and strengthen reason, that it may timeously be able to bear head against all the allurements of sense. 1761 Ess. Art War 63 A Peace of about twenty Years..enervated them [sc. the Romans] to such a Degree, that they were not able to bear Head against Hannibal. < as lemmas |
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