单词 | to glut his eyes |
释义 | > as lemmasto glut his eyes a. figurative. To gratify to the full (in earlier use, a sense or appetite of any kind, now, esp., a ferocious or lustful desire). Also to glut a person, to glut his eyes, etc. with, †in something. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > be content or satisfied with [verb (transitive)] > content or satisfy > a desire or appetite stanchc1315 queema1325 slakec1325 fill1340 servea1393 feedc1400 exploita1425 assuagec1430 astaunchc1430 slocken?1507 eslakec1530 sate1534 saturate1538 appease1549 glut1549 answer1594 exsatiate1599 embaitc1620 palliate1631 recreate1643 still1657 jackal1803 1549 J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion (ed. 3) sig. C2v You..are better contented to suffer famine..to glutte your lustes, than to liue in quietnesse. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. iii. 399 A country man may travell from kingdome to kingdome,..and glut his eyes with delightfull obiects. 1632 E. Reynolds Explic. 110th Psalme 287 To glut themselves with the bloud of his people. 1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 82 in Purple Island Where idle boyes may glut their lustfull taste. 1639 J. S. Clidamas 31 Not content to glut himselfe in such sins as might have some excuse. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 23 Aug. (1970) III. 175 My Lady Castlemayne stood over against us upon a piece of White-hall—where I glutted myself with looking on her. 1696 tr. A. Duquesne New Voy. E.-Indies 124 Those who admire shell-work, may glut their fancy here. 1743 J. Davidson tr. Virgil Æneid ix. 289 We have glutted ourselves with Vengeance to the full. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. iv. v. 166 My employers are enough to glut your rage, an you were a tiger. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. Pref. p. ix The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §5. 317 His ambition was glutted at last with the rank of Cardinal. < as lemmas |
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