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单词 to bring to hand
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to bring to hand
(b) to (one's) hand: (esp. of an animal) under (one's) control, into subjection. Frequently in to bring to hand.In early use frequently with indirect object indicating whose control the person is subjected to.
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society > authority > subjection > in or into subjection [phrase] > under control
to (one's) handOE
underhanda1000
under subordination1749
in hand1761
OE Fortunes of Men 92 Sum sceal wildne fugel wloncne atemian..; deþ he wyrplas on.., oþþæt se wælisca..eaðmod weorþeð ond to hagostealdes honda gelæred.
OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Judges (Laud) vi. 1 in S. J. Crawford Old Eng. Version of Heptateuch (1922) 406 He let hi to handa þam hæþenan leodscipe, Madian gecweden [L. tradidit eos in manu Madian].
c1200 Serm. in Eng. & Germanic Stud. (1961) 7 63 Heo..velden al heore ofsprung eche deþ to honde.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 788 He was noght of such myht The strengthe of love to withstonde That he ne was so broght to honde.
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 2304 Hoolde foode away, and watir, kepe it thens, And hem to honde anoon shal honger bringe.
1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques i. v. 40 They knowe so well how to tame and bring to hand [harts], that they make their flesh serue for meat to eate.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 307 Alexander..at last wan the Horsse to hand.
a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §266 275 He..brought the hawk to hand.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 67 Some of these they had brought so to their Hand, that they taught them to go and come.
1810 Repertory Arts, Manuf., & Agric. Dec. 29 My bulls as well as oxen..are put into carts or waggons as wanted, and upon the whole brought to hand more easily than colts.
1868 Baily's Monthly Mag. Nov. 734 Should Mr. Deacon continue to bring his foxes to hand as he has hitherto done.., the noses on his kennel-door will outnumber all those of his predecessors.
1922 E. Wallace Flying Fifty-five xii. 74 He has got the make, shape and pedigree of a Derby winner, and unless I am mistaken, he is the kind that comes to hand very slowly.
2008 R. L. LaFevers Theodosia & Eye of Osiris i. 12 If you cannot see to her proper upbringing, then perhaps I shall take her to hand.
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