单词 | to bring, drive, put, reduce to extremity or extremities |
释义 | > as lemmasto †bring, drive, †put, reduce to (the last) extremity or extremities a. A condition of extreme urgency or need; the utmost point of adversity, embarrassment, or suffering. Phrases, to †bring, drive, †put, reduce to (the last) extremity or extremities. †upon an extremity: on an emergency. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > most extreme worstc1275 extremityc1425 extreme fortune1531 exigents1588 fine1596 devil1681 limit1906 the end of the line1948 c1425 T. Hoccleve Min. Poems i. (1892) 208 In swich an houres extremitee. c1542 Udall in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1843) 3 Considre in what extremitee and distresse I am constitute. 1560 A. L. tr. J. Calvin Serm. Songe Ezechias iv Sometimes thei are brought to such extremitie that onles they digge the earth..they haue not a droppe of water to drinke. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 21 He vsed it vpon an extremity. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 8 A Serpent was the first originall of all his extremities. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 6 A daring Pilot in extremity. a1691 J. Flavell Faithful Narr. Sea-deliv. in Wks. (1701) II. 73 We knew that Mans Extremity is God's Opportunity. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 129 I was not driven to any Extremities for Food. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 165 Florence was reduced to the last extremity. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 95 Driven to extremity. < as lemmas |
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