| 单词 | to do honour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do (a person or thing) honour a. to do (a person or thing) honour. Also to do (one's) honour to. extracted from honourhonorn. (a) [Compare French faire honneur à (13th cent. in Old French).] To honour (a person or thing); to confer honour upon, to treat with honour; to show or pay due respect to. Also: to pay one's last respects to. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [verb (transitive)] > show respect for wortheOE to do worship to (also till, for)OE honourc1275 worshipc1300 to make feasta1325 to do (a person or thing) honourc1330 observec1390 reverencec1400 weigh1423 honourable1455 worthya1500 honorify1606 to rise up to (also unto)1621 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 1025 (MED) Do ich-il ȝou grete honour For þat maidens loue Blauncheflour. a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) l. 1131 We onely hym þanke and do hym onoure. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 73 Agamynon..To Diana full derely did his honowre. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxxv To se his estate and dooe hym honor. 1644 J. Milton in tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce To Parl. sig. B3v To doe me honour in that very thing, wherin these men thought to have blotted me. 1698 M. Henry Acct. Life & Death P. Henry ix. 204 All the Country round..and the Towns about, came to do him Honour at his Death. 1798 J. S. Murray Virtue Triumphant ii. 41 You do me honour, Madam. 1849 T. M. Post Pilgrim Fathers 10 Not, therefore, as saints, or demigods, or arbiters and limiters of human reason and faith would we do them honor. 1866 J. H. Riddell Maxwell Drewitt xxiv. 96/1 All the men who had ever paid rent to Archibald Drewitt..came to do honor to him now. 1903 R. Maisch Man. Greek Antiq. ii. 32 The head men of the stock do honour to him by gifts. 1953 Life 21 Dec. 6 The thunderous surge of applause from..delegates who did him honor humbled him. 2008 D. Michaels Tom Clancy's EndWar 299 As one soldier to another, do me honor and shoot me. (b) To do credit to (a person or thing); to bring honour to. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > gain credit by [verb (transitive)] > do credit or bring honour to to do (one's) honour toa1450 grace1578 credita1594 to do grace to1597 praisea1633 to do credit to1679 redound1681 a1450 Seven Sages (Cambr. Dd.1.17) (1845) l. 531 (MED) Thow doost thy selfe lytil honour, For to suffyre thy sone by slawe. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie ix. 63 Let Hanibal reste with his predecessors, who sometimes by vnbearded fortune did honour to mightye Carthage. 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries Ded. I am not..so well conceited of any Composition..of mine, as to think I shall do you any Honour by this Dedication. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. lxxxii Mr. Colly Cibber, who does too much Honour to the Laurel Crown he deservedly wears. 1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. viii. 110 Which is a wiseness that does honour to her education. 1815 W. Meeston tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Harmonies of Nature III. 388 He had in his thoughts a plan which would do him great honour if it should succeed. 1873 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 177 A truly human type.., possessed of a mind that is fitted to do honor to the race. 1918 Everybody's Mag. June 75/1 He had a delicacy that did him honor. 1993 W. J. Palmer Films of Eighties (1995) ii. 42 A marine who does honor to the Corps achieves immortality. < as lemmas |
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