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单词 to ask accounts
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to ask accounts
(b) transitive. In to ask (an) account (also (a) reckoning), to ask accounts. Now literary.
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the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > demand
calla1300
yeiec1320
to ask account?c1450
to call for ——1479
demand1484
inquirea1513
expostulate1548
advocatea1575
to stand upon ——1577
postulate1605
to stand on ——1606
bespeak1677
to put (also place, call, etc.) in (or into) requisition1831
requisition1874
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 59 Of the whiche God will axse hem acompte [Fr. Dieux leur demandera compte].
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclxxxiii. 645 They wolde aske accomptes of the Chancellour of Englande [Fr. ils vouloient compter au chancelier d'Angleterre] to knowe where all the good was become that he had leuyed through the realme.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Gloucester xxi. 5 To axe a reckening of the Realmes reuenue.
1600 C. Edmondes Obseruations Fiue Bks. Caesars Comm. v. 182 If any mischance happen vnto them, they shall aske account thereof at thy hands.
1695 P. Hume Annot. Paradise Lost vii. 214 Impertinent and daring Men, who..would..ask an account of that Almighty Will, which created all Things how and when he pleas'd.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. i. 328 The French King should ask reckoning of Albright of that he had branskated.
1762 tr. J. B. Bossuet Hist. France I. vii. 253 As he was asking accounts of the king of France, he saw a body of cavalry appearing.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe (1820) xxiv. 214 He..has no right to ask reckoning at the hands of good men of noble blood.
1858 W. M. Gwin in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1940) 19 271 As a senator of that State, I am here to ask an account of the blood of my constituents.
1870 tr. V. Hugo Destroyer of Second Republic iv. i. 177 The French people..took into their heads to demand accounts from the monarchy, to ask accounts from Providence, and to settle for these eight centuries of misery.
1911 Smart Set Nov. 36/1 She kept wondering miserably what she should do if Paul asked a reckoning at her hands.
1981 tr. R. Gómez de la Serna in T. Running Borges' Ultraist Movement & Its Poets i. 3 A voice that must unite without asking accounts of all the youth like that bonfire that the dispersed Arabs light to prepare their battles!
2012 D. Herd All Just 69 Love shan't ask Reckoning only.
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