| 单词 | to gird one's loins |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto gird one's loins a. transitive. To surround, encircle (the waist, a person about the waist) with a belt or girdle, esp. for the purpose of confining the garments and allowing freer action to the body. Chiefly reflexive or passive; also, after Biblical phrase, to gird one's loins, to gird one's reins, etc. Also to gird up, to gird about. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > belt or girdle girdc950 begirdc1000 belta1400 girdle1582 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] > surround with begirdc890 belayc893 bitrumc1000 umbegoc1300 vironc1440 compass1481 beset1578 entour1623 to fabricate about with1634 surround1635 hearse1646 gird1667 round1698 entwine1796 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xxi. 18 Mið-ðy [þu] uere giungra ðu waldes ðec gigyrde..miððy uutudlice ðu bist geuintrad..oðer ðec gyrdeð. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 307 Ge Schulen inan hetter & igurd liggen. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3149 Sod and girt, stondende, and staf on hond. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1804 Coryneus first vp he stirt, & wyþ a cloþ his body gyrt. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Tobit v. 5 Tobie..fond a ȝung man stondende, ful faire, gird [1535 Coverdale gyrded vp], and as redi to gon. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xii. 11 Ȝe schulen girde about ȝoure reynes. c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 7054 The lauendres kirtel on she cast, She gird hir, and tukked hir fast. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 432 b/2 For gyrdle he gyrded hym on his bare flesshe wyth a corde. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings iv. 29 Girde vp thy loynes, and take my staffe in thy hande, and go thy waye. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke xii. 35 Let youre loynes be gerded aboute. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1113 Those Leaves They gatherd..And..together sowd, To gird thir waste. View more context for this quotation 1782 W. Cowper Truth in Poems 82 In shirt of hair, and weeds of canvas dressed, Girt with a bell-rope that the Pope has blessed. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 106 He girt his loins, and came. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iv. 25 She girded herself with a white apron. 1872 Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles vii. 176 They girded him with strange belts. < as lemmas |
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