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单词 to charm the tongue
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to charm the tongue
4. To overcome or subdue, as if by magic power; to calm, soothe, allay, assuage. †to charm the tongue: (formerly a very common phrase for) to keep it silent.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)]
to hold one's tonguec897
to keep one's tonguec897
to be (hold oneself) stilla1000
to say littleOE
to hold one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
to keep (one's) silence?c1225
to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275
stillc1330
peacec1395
mum1440
to say neither buff nor baff1481
to keep (also play) mum1532
to charm the tonguec1540
to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546
hush1548
to play (at) mumbudgeta1564
not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590
to keep a still tongue in one's head1729
to sing small1738
to sew up1785
let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814
to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824
to choke back1844
mumchance1854
to keep one's trap shut1899
to choke up1907
to belt up1949
to keep (or stay) shtum1958
shtum1958
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > assuage or calm
laya1300
disarm?c1400
lithec1430
mitigatea1513
charmc1540
hush1632
assopiatea1649
society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)] > have controlling or prevailing influence upon
rule?c1225
govern1340
overcomec1400
charmc1540
rein1557
oversway1593
reign1844
c1540 Play Wit & Sc. (1848) 37 Fall you to kyssyng, syr..Your mother shall charme you, go your wayes.
1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) xi. i. f. 233 Charme thy tongue, thy bealy and thy priuities.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ix. sig. V2 A person..That well could charme his tongue, & time his speach. View more context for this quotation
1596 A. Munday tr. 1st Pt. Palmerin of Eng. xii Berolde..receiuing him at the point of his Launce, charmed his bolde attempt.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 254 The stench of His corps could be charmed with no embalming.
1713 A. Pope Ode Musick 7 Musick the fiercest Griefs can charm.
1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems i. 285 Mercy gave, to charm the sense of woe, Ideal peace.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. ix. xl. 314 The sound of their own language..charmed their rage for the moment.
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