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单词 to get foot
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to get foot
22. A secure position, a foothold; standing, status. Frequently in to get foot: to gain a secure position from which further progress may be made. Obsolete.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun] > established position
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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 5754 (MED) Somme also so toty in her hede..haue no foot for to stonde vp-riȝt.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. ii. f. 1v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I If they had once gotten foote into any Region whatsoeuer, it woulde not be long ere they did..increase their limites to the better maintenance of themselues and their posteritie for euermore.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 148/1 Their getting foote may be to their owne destruction.
1603 Whole Prophesie Scotl. sig. A iij And falset shal haue foote fullie fiue yeares.
1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 113 Hinder new love from getting foot in her heart.
1662 H. More Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Pref. Gen. p. xix Considering also how far that Philosophy has already got foot in Christendome.
a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 251 That such a Religion ever get foot in England, the Lord in Mercy prevent.
a1692 ( in J. Stevenson Lett. & Papers Illustr. Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 447 The puissance and might of youre enemyes, and foote that they have goten ageinst you there.
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