| 单词 | to draw one's pen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto draw one's pen (also quill) P7. to draw one's pen (also quill): to attack or defend a person or thing in writing. Also with against, for. Cf. sense 54a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > put forward [verb (transitive)] > argue against to draw one's pen (also quill)1603 counter-argue1661 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > put forward [verb (transitive)] > support or defend maintainc1350 to draw one's pen (also quill)1759 1603 F. Dillingham Quartron of Reasons Vnquartered 7 If the Lutherans haue changed the word Catholike in the Creede, draw your penne against them, and not against the church of England. 1710 J. Swift Tale of Tub (ed. 5) Apol. sig. A7 That this Answerer had..drawn his Pen against a certain great Man. 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 151 Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill. 1759 O. Goldsmith Bee 24 Nov. 245 Many members of both houses of parliament, drew their pens for the whigs. 1867 Med. Rec. 15 Apr. 86/2 We find him drawing his quill against another party, upon an equally frivolous and unfounded pretence. 1978 Mod. Philol. 76 302 Hervey in a pique drew his pen against the government and the very measures he had supported while in power. < as lemmas |
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