| 单词 | to give wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give wall b. figurative. (In early use sometimes without article, to give wall, to take wall.) ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [verb (intransitive)] to take wall1591 better1592 to take place1602 to be a huckleberry to (or over) someone's persimmon1832 1591 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Prognost. in Wks. (Grosart) II. 157 The Bakers Basket shall giue wall vnto the Brewers Barrell. 1608 Bp. J. Hall Pharisaisme & Christianity 51 Some Traditions must haue place in euery Church; but their place: they may not take wall of Scripture. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) iii. i. 137 If a supposed, & self respective good be suffer'd to take the wall of the best, & absolute good. 1679 R. Wild Oliver Cromwells Ghost 2 Though old in Artful Wickedness I be, Yet Rome, I now Resign the Wall to thee. 1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 59 According to nice Herald-like Ceremony, the Son, as the better Gentleman, ought to take the Wall of the Father. < as lemmas |
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