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单词 to address, bend, direct, dress, gye, etc one's style
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to address, bend, direct, dress, gye, etc. one's style
d. to turn one's style: to change to another subject; also, to speak on the other side. [Compare classical Latin stilum vertere] Similarly to address, bend, direct, dress, gye, etc. one's style. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > change to another subject
to address, bend, direct, dress, gye, etc. one's stylea1400
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13001 Leue we him a littel quille And turn we to sant Iohn vr still.
c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 4890 To declare yt and expresse, A noon I wil my style dresse.
c1410 J. Lydgate Life Our Lady lxvii. (1484) k iij That thorow thyn helpe I may my style gye Somwhat to sey of thyn epyphanye.
c1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 3362 Wher, for a tyme, I wil leue him dwelle, And to Grekis..directe ageyn my stile.
a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 2124 Thus leue I hym ride forth a while, whilys that I retourne ageyn my style Vnto the kyng.
a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. Ciiv I..can not in effect My style as yet direct With englysh wordes clere.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 220 At this dewys I leif thame heir ane quhile, And to the Romanis turne I will my style.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iii. i. 333 Here let us..addresse our stile to other statutes.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. K3 But saith hee, Turne your stile, and let vs heare what you can say against vs. View more context for this quotation
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 159 This young man quite turning his stile when his Master had strayed from the right way of vertue, beganne to cry out against his inconstancy.
1650 Bp. J. Hall Revelation Unrevealed vii. 69 Reverend and holy Dionysius bent his style, in two books of the promises of God.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 146 Where, leave we Him and Ralph awhile, And to the Conjurer turn our stile.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 26 To gentle Arcite let us turn our Style.
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