单词 | to be sat down |
释义 | > as lemmasto be sat down b. transitive (in passive). to be sat down: to be sitting down, to be in a seated position. Cf. main sense 27c. Now British colloquial.Apparently rare from the 19th century until the late 20th century.Some early modern English examples may show either the perfect tense formed with be rather than have or the passive of sense 4 (as in they were sat down ‘they had sat down’ or ‘they were made to sit down’). ΚΠ ?1574 tr. H. Niclaes Exhortatio ix. f. 18 My beloued Children and thou Famelye of Loue: when yee are sat-downe at the Table to eate. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 185 As soon as they were sitten down [It. assisi]. 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iii. sig. H2v Yonder they are at peep. And now sitten downe as waiting for my purpose. 1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 23 I am now sat down to give you a few scattered observations. a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xxiii. 273 They were scarcely sat down, before one of the house-maids came [etc.]. 1787 R. Burns Let. 1 June (2001) I. 120 I'm sitten down here. 1880 ‘H. Lee’ Mrs. Denys of Cote III. xliii. 174 When he got indoors and was sat down in his chair, he said..: ‘Some misfortune's befallen the squire’. 1986 alt.folklore.computers 16 Dec. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 24 Nov. 2017) James, our manager, was sat down, head in hands, hands between knees. 2012 K. Hudson Tony Hogan bought me Ice-cream Float 177 You could see an inch of grey sock and three inches of greyer skin when l was sat down. < as lemmas |
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