单词 | to bid defiance |
释义 | > as lemmasto bid defiance a. transitive. †to bid (any one) battle, arms: to offer battle to, challenge to fight. Obsolete. to bid defiance (still in use). (With past tense bade, participle bidden.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > offer battle to bid (any one) battle, armsc1330 to make or give a bravado1600 to bid defiance1629 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (intransitive)] > defy stout1303 to be (also meet, run) in a person's beardc1380 to face and brace1447 to stout it1570 to bid defiance1629 to stout it outa1639 bravado1801 to breast it out1815 α. β. 1570 Mariage Witte & Sci. iv. i. sig. Div When you feele your selfe, well able to preuayle: Byd you the battell.1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. G4v An hundred kings..wil bid him armes.1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xlv. 382/2 Edmund..two dayes after at Brentford bad them battaile.1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor iv. i. sig. G4 Wee vndaunted yet..bid defiance, To them, and fate.1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxxvi. 92 Whom he bade battel, and got the day.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 15 That spirit which had bidden defiance to..the House of Valois.c1330 K. of Tars 1018 Uppon the soudan thei beode bataile. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7472 Ilk dai he come..and batail bede [Fairf. bed, Gött. bedd] wiþ sli manace. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xlvi. l. 517 Aȝens the Miscreantz bataille to bede. < as lemmas |
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