单词 | to gad abroad |
释义 | > as lemmasto gad abroad to gad abroad intransitive. Originally: †to go out, esp. without definite aim or purpose (cf. abroad adv. 3) (obsolete). Later: to go abroad or go travelling for pleasure. Now rare.In quot. a1688 figurative. ΚΠ 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark v. f. xxxvi He..would gad abrode at libertie. 1554 T. Martin Traictise Marriage of Priestes xii. sig. Ddiiiiv Whyle the virgins..will nedes..gooe raunginge and gaddinge abrode. 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 60 Gad not abroad at ev'ry quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion. a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iii. iii. 98 Sense wholly gazes and gads abroad. 1732 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière School for Husbands i. ii. 13 in Sel. Comedies IV Let her gad abroad, love Idleness, and be at Liberty for the Beaux to Compliment. 1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 61 How silly, when one is well and cool to gad abroad, in the vain hope of making what is really best, better. 1893 Girl's Own Paper 29 Apr. 485/1 Good people, get home; why are you all gadding abroad at this hour of the night, eh? 1966 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 6 July How could George be gadding abroad showing people over there how wonderful Americans are, if he had to join in a dirty old war? < as lemmas |
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