| 单词 | to bear, get, have, take, win the gree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bear, get, have, take, win the gree 5. Pre-eminence; superiority; mastery; victory in battle; hence, the prize for a victory. to bear, get, have, take, win the gree. Now Scottish. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] siȝec893 masteryc1225 conquestc1315 gree1320 victoryc1330 victor1390 victory1398 battlec1400 triumphc1412 masterdomc1475 victoragec1480 V1941 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] overhandc1175 masteryc1225 gree1320 betc1330 pricea1350 advantagea1393 overmasterya1400 voicea1400 betterc1405 higherc1450 prevaila1460 superiority1548 mastership1573 prevalence1604 eminence1609 privilegea1616 prevalency1623 upper fortunea1625 whipping-hand1682 whip hand1806 1320–30 Horn Ch. 319 That day Horn the turnament wan..He toke the gre, that was a swan. 13.. Sir Beues (E.) 3769 + 4 A turnement sche haþ don crye..for to see, What knyȝt ys to han þe gree. c1330 Horn Child l. 462 in J. Hall King Horn (1901) 184 At iustes & at turnament..Euer þai gat þe gre. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 103 The gree ȝut hath he geten for alle hus grete wondes. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1873 Duc Theseus leet crye To stynten al rancour and enuye The gre as wel of oo syde as of oother. 1470–80 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vi. vii The gree was gyuen to kynge Bagdemagus. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. cviii. 90 In this bataylle..the gree of the felde [was] left with the danoys. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. ii. 52 Quha best on fute can ryn lat se, To preif his pith, to wersill, and beir the gre. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 448 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 109 To Iames lord dowglas yow ye gre gaif To ga with ye kingis hart. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. xix. ix. 198 Prayand to god that he micht haue that graie and victorie of him quha was his enemye. a1605 in Montgomerie's Poems (1887) 274 The Muses wald have gevin the grie To her, as to the Aperse. 1686 G. Stuart Joco-serious Disc. 22 Of aw the pipers I did see, This piper Tony wan the 'gree. 1796 R. Burns Honest Man ix. 4 That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 106 The Cu'ross hammermen have the gree for that. 1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 91 Whether be it wark or play, The gree was wi' our auld gudeman. 1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 29 Ower them a' for classic style It bears the gree. < as lemmas |
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