单词 | to dance attendance |
释义 | > as lemmasto dance attendance 5. In senses 3, 4 the phrases to wait attendance (obsolete), to dance attendance, occur= ‘to attend’; the latter usually with some shade of sarcasm or contempt. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > on a superior to dance attendance1555 to wait attendancea1593 antechamber1884 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. D.viv He dauncth atendaunce, are atendantes dauncyng. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C4 Nobles..That waite attendance for a gratious looke. 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. ii. ii. iv. 451 Shut him out of doores once or twice, let him dance attendance. a1704 T. Brown Comical View London & Westm. (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 69 Why should the Loadstone complain of the Iron for not dancing Attendance after it. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xviii. 175 What was he about, dancing attendance here? to dance attendance 5. to dance attendance: to wait (upon a person) with assiduous attention and ready obsequiousness; originally to stand waiting or ‘kicking one's heels’ in an antechamber. See also attendance n. 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile [verb (intransitive)] > attend in servile manner to dance attendancea1529 a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 626 And Syr ye must daunce attendance, And take patient sufferaunce, For my Lords Grace, Hath now no time or space, To speke with you as yet. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. ii. 30 To suffer A man of his Place..To dance attendance on their Lordships pleasures, And at the dore too, like a Post with Packets. View more context for this quotation a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 380 Few have observed that the Sun, and Moon, and Stars dance attendance to it [sc. the earth], and cherish it with their Influences. 1768 T. Gray in Let. 29 May in Corr. (1971) III. 1033 Here are a pair of your stray shoes, dancing attendance, till you send for them. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xxxi. 362 After dancing attendance on the court for a month or two they receive their dismission. < as lemmas |
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