单词 | to bring, have under foot |
释义 | > as lemmasto bring, have under foot 2. figurative. In (to) a state of subjection or inferiority. †to bring, have under foot: to bring into, hold in subjection. ΚΠ c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11773 Þatt illke wise. þatt adam. I paradys wass fandedd. & brohht to grund & unnderrfot. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 33 Ȝef me warpe wið him alþe world vnder fet. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5833 For þis lond..he hit hæfde al vnder fot [c1300 Otho onder fot]. c1290 Beket 1995 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 163 Ake nolde it god þat holi churche onder fote were so. c1300 Pilate (Harl.) 49 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 112 If he þat lond chasteþ wel and bringeþ vnder fote, He worþ man wiþoute peer. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 85 Ac uirtue arereþ þane man an heȝ, and him deþ þe wordle onderuot. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 7 Tho was the vertu sett above And vice was put under fote. 1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 172 He ne holdyth hym not y-lowet ne vndyrfote of the dyssayses whyche he hathe escapid. c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 3 (MED) Alexandre..helde alle londis vndir foote. 1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. eev She enhaunced herselfe ferre aboue the derknes of synne puttynge vnderfote thoccasyon of it. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxxvi. 833 I sawe that that man was nothing vnder foote, and as for myselfe I was in extreeme neede. a1605 (c1422) T. Hoccleve Complaint (Durh.) l. 13 in Minor Poems (1892) i. 95 Deathe vnder fote shall hym thrist adowne. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. v. 101 No, not he the man to have pity of women underfoot! < as lemmas |
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