| 单词 | to cast, take up, throw the glove |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto †cast, take up, throw (down) the glove d. as token of a pledge or of a challenge to battle. Also to †cast, take up, throw (down) the glove. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > [noun] > challenge to > token or pledge of challenge gage13.. wedc1330 glovea1400 pledge1590 pawn1597 the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > pledge or assurance > hand or glove as symbol of handOE glovea1400 society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > challenge or challenging > challenge [verb (intransitive)] to cast (out) the gauntlet1548 to throw (down) the gauntlet1548 to cast one's mitten1589 to bid the basea1616 to cast, take up, throw (down) the glove1896 a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 4137 Here glouen þai gonne vp holde In þat forward. a1440 Sir Degrev. 183 Be he squiere othere knyght Here my glove one to ffyght. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 95 And therto I caste to the my gloue, and take thou it vp, I shal haue right of the or deye therfore. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 691 Syne kest his gluif to preif that all wes trew. 1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 81v But if they take vp my gloue, and enter the Lyste..I will..teach them to know the weyght of my clubbe. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. i. 210 Here is my gloue, which if euer I see in thy hat, Ile challenge thee. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. v. 62 I will throw my gloue to death himselfe. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. v. 49. 1896 J. A. Froude Lect. Council Trent ii. 44 Luther..was throwing down the glove to the whole system of ecclesiastical domination. < as lemmas |
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