单词 | to bring to wrack |
释义 | > as lemmasto bring (also go, put, run) to wrack (and ruin) b. In the phrase to bring (also go, put, run) to wrack (and ruin). Also figurative. Cf. rack n.9 1.In frequent use, esp. with go (went), c1560–1680. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [verb (intransitive)] woundc897 spilea1325 grieve1398 to bring (also go, put, run) to wrack (and ruin)1412 mangle1533 to do, make, etc. (great, much) spoil1575 wreck1634 trash1970 1412 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy Prol. 161 For nere writers, al wer out of mynde, Nat story only, but of nature and kynde The trewe knowyng schulde haue gon to wrak. 1420–2 J. Lydgate Story of Thebes ii. 2215 Vpon his foon he rolled it [sc. a huge stone] at onys, That ten of hem wenten vnto wrak. 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. b viv What did monkes and fryeres thanne, When masse went thus to wracke? 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. iii. sig. Piijv He whose shyppe is gone to wracke. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 70 This Arke..by diuine prouidence..was gouerned from running to wracke. 1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 400 Thy scepter rent, and power put to wrack. 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 111 Arezzo beeing by long dissention amongest themselues almost brought to wracke. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xvi. 67 The greater part of his army..were all put to wrack. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 670 And now all Heav'n Had gone to wrack, with ruin overspred. View more context for this quotation 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. v. ii, in Wks. 115 All their Affairs went to Wrack upon it. 1757 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) II. 421 All nature was going to wrack... Gods and men were perishing in one common ruin. 1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton ii. 33 All things were going to wrack. 1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 129 The man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight. < as lemmas |
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