单词 | to carry the sway of |
释义 | > as lemmasto carry the sway of 7. to bear (†a or the) sway, etc. (also †to carry sway): to rule, govern; to hold the (highest) position in authority or power; to exercise influence, carry weight. Also, †to carry the sway of. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [verb (intransitive)] to give (the) law (to)a1225 reignc1325 to rule the roastc1500 to bear (the) rooma1529 to have, bear, carry, strike the stroke1531 to bear (a or the) sway1549 to bear a (also the) rout1550 (to have) swing and sway1552 to rule the rout1570 master1656 carry1662 to lay down the law1762 to rule the roost1769 to carry (also hold) (big) guns1867 society > authority > [verb (transitive)] > have authority over lordshipc1350 maistriec1400 mastera1425 manc1426 overlordshipc1460 domine1481 to carry the sway of1549 overmastera1557 command1575 swinge1593 monarch1600 dominate1611 dominion1647 dominate1870 society > authority > power > influence > have influence [verb (intransitive)] weighc1386 to have, bear, carry, strike a (great, etc.) stroke1531 to hold placea1535 to take place1535 to bear (a or the) sway1549 to have weight1565 say1614 to be no small drinka1774 matter1848 to pack a punch (also wallop)a1938 society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)] to carry the sway of1549 persuade1618 to go a long (also great, short, etc.) way1624 1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Cviii Let theim two [sc. knowledge and fear of the Lord] beare al the swea, In thy doynges. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vi. 151 Nexte vnto the kinges maiestie, the communaltie bare the swaye. 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. i. sig. Aviii Suche as in maney ages before had borne the grertest swaighe in that publike weale. 1570 F. Walsingham in D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 8 Montmorencie..now carrieth the whole sway of the Court. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 3 Wilfulnes wil beare a suai, if it be not bridelid. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 150 One prince beareth the sway. 1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence ii. ii. sig. D4v This is the man that carries The sway, and swinge of the Court. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. v. 19 As it comes to bear sway in them. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 285 Let Revenge no longer bear the Sway. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. vi, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 459 Huntly and Bothwell, who bore the chief sway in the kingdom. 1779 Mirror No. 66. ⁋5 He knows..that, in Lady Anne, vanity bears absolute sway. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 72 The ages when the Church bore sway over every action of life. < as lemmas |
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