单词 | to have ado with |
释义 | > as lemmasto have ado with 3. A relationship, interaction, or connection; dealings, concerns; spec. †sexual intercourse (obsolete); (also) a hostile or military encounter. Only in to have ado with; cf. to have to do with (also †mid, †of, †on) at do v. Phrases 1b(a). Now archaic and rare. ΚΠ 1400 G. ap Dafydd ap Gruffudd Let. 11 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 6 (MED) Sr. Ric. Kakin..With the qwych I had neuer ado nor no covenande made. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 3036 And yitt hadde trespasse neuer adoo With Resoun ne neuer ley hir bye. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 179 (MED) He lay by hur & had at do with hur. c1500 Melusine (1895) 262 I doubte me to haue shortly a strong werre & to haue a doo with a strong partye. 1570 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 18 He said that he the said Robert had had ado wth her. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. 58 [She] flat refusd to have adoe with mee, Because I could not give her many a Jane. 1742 A. Gib Warning against countenancing Ministrations George Whitefield 57 Their Consolations and Assurance meet with frequent Interruptions, because they have ado with a holy God, who chastises for Unholiness. 1907 F. B. T. Coutts-Nevill Romance of King Arthur 205 Sir Launcelot, on your peril draw not near; For all that have ado with me repent. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 369 They had had ado each with other in the house of misericord where this learning knight lay. < as lemmas |
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