单词 | to have or take one's swinge |
释义 | > as lemmasto have or take one's swinge a. Freedom of action, free scope, licence; liberty to follow one's inclinations: = swing n.2 5. to have or take one's swinge, to give (a person or thing, oneself) swinge. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun] > scope or free opportunity roomeOE leisure1303 libertyc1425 free chase1467 scope1534 roomtha1540 swinge1542 swing1584 blank charter1593 freedom1623 field1639 play1641 free agencya1646 range1793 expatiationa1848 leaveway1890 open slather1919 headroom1932 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xvi. sig. H.ivv Sensuall appetyde muste haue a swynge, all these thinges notwith[st]andynge. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 17v Shooting hath two Tutours..the one called Daye light, ye other Open place, whyche .ii. keepe shooting from euyl companye, and suffers it not to haue to much swinge. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. viii. 130 Youth they say must haue his swinge. 1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. viii. 254 He began to giue the full swindge to his lawlesse and vnruly desires. 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades v. 617 For whose sake I will lose the raynes, and giue mine anger swindge. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxii. 597 That then~streight bed Is sowre to that swindge, in which she was bred. 1631 G. Chapman Warres Pompey & Caesar ii. i. 12 I had able means, And spent all in the swinge of lewd affections. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat v. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. G4/2 I'll have my swindge upon thee. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xxiii. 233 By preferring the full swindge of the Animal life before the orderly Pleasures..of the Divine. 1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit i. 11 I am perswaded the bounds of his Land have been the utmost extent of his travel; except since his Parents death, he has given himself a swinge to some Race, or Fair. 1687 tr. Sallust (1692) 8 A savage sort of People, living at their full swinge of Liberty and Licence. < as lemmas |
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