单词 | to come into a person's hands |
释义 | > as lemmasto come into (also to) a person's hands 2. Chiefly in plural, in constructions with a preposition: possession, custody, charge, authority, power, disposal, etc. Esp. in expressions such as in (also into, to, etc.) the hands of, in a person's hands, to come into (also to) a person's hands, etc.at hand, on hand, under hand, etc.: see Phrases. ΚΠ eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) xxx. 18 Eripe me de manibus inimicorum meorum : genere me of hondum feonda minra. OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 378 Crisantus þa leornode..grammatican cræft and þa hæðenan bec, oþþæt þa halgan godspel him becomon to hande. OE Paris Psalter (1932) cxviii. 109 Is sawl min symble on ðinum holdum handum. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3014 He wollde uss lesenn. Vt off þe laþe gastess hannd & brinngenn uss till heoffne. c1225 (?OE) Soul's Addr. to Body (Worcester) (Fragm. B) l. 7 Hwar beoþ [nu] þeo goldfæten, þeo þe guldene comen to þine honden? c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 357 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 116 Þe bischopriches fullen boþe In-to þe kingus hond. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 140 (MED) Manye men dieden in hise handis bi þis wey. 1410 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) I. 30 [He] fand ane borch in our hand as schref. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 18 Many oþer landes he haldes in his hand. 1511 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 337/2 Als lang as he haldis the comptrollary in his hand. a1530 R. Pace Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. lxxxi. 199 In a Pacquett off Lettres..comyn to my handis thys mornynge. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cvj The Frenchemen..thinkyng the victory to be in their handes. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xvi. 6 Behold, thy maid is in thy hand . View more context for this quotation 1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. i. 11 It was worth observing to see how officiously some of the old Stagers took leave of the publick Purse, before it came into Hucksters hands. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 53. ⁋11 The Citadel will be in the Hands of the Allies before the last Day of this Month. 1759 J. Wesley Let. 17 Nov. (1931) IV. 336 The weekly contributions of our community..never come into my hands. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxxii. 511 The executor..is allowed to pay himself first; by retaining in his hands so much as his debt amounts to. 1815 Times 31 Oct. 3/4 The letter came into the hands of the prisoner at the bar, who made an indorsement upon it, ‘George Maddocks, per procuration of Robert Falcon’. 1887 Daily News 16 Mar. 2/5 It is generally within the last ten years of a building lease that houses in London come into the hands of the house farmer. 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke iii. 25 Not once in a month did a common newsletter fall into our hands. 1926 Amer. Mercury Mar. 368/1 There recently came into my hands a pamphlet, peddled by bookleggers, entitled ‘Suppressed Poems by James Whitcomb Riley and Eugene Field.’ 1934 P. G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves i. 15 Mr. Sipperly..recommended him to place his affairs in my hands. 2006 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 2 July 31/4 Depleted uranium is only a weapon in the hands of beardy men. < as lemmas |
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