| 单词 | to give a or the foil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give a or the foil a. A repulse, defeat in an onset or enterprise; a baffling check. archaic. †In early use often in phrases: to give a or the foil; to have, receive, take a (the, one's) foil; to put to (a, the) foil. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > [noun] confusionc1290 scomfit13.. cumber1303 discomfitc1330 scomfitingc1333 discomfiturea1400 scomfiturea1400 discomfitingc1405 overthrowc1440 male journey1455 overset1456 foilc1478 discomforture1485 supprise1488 reversea1529 distrage?1548 loss1548 defeat1553 underdeal1553 discomfort1589 defeatment1598 defeature1598 rufflec1600 defeatance1608 routa1616 Caudine Forks1619 disrout1623 conviction1631 bang1644 derout1644 conquest1677 drubbing1769 check1793 thrashing1797 sauve-qui-peut1815 debacle1847 smash1888 pasting1942 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > thwarting or being thwarted > instance of foilc1478 thwart1611 baffle1628 c1478 in Eng. Gilds 304 Myndynge not to take the foyle, stande to defende theyre cause. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 11 Could neuer yet fynde how to geue him any foile. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 13 Considering what a foul shame and foil it had alreddi bene unto me. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 427 Chabrias..having put to foile and defaited some few Thebans. a1609 A. Hume Poems (1902) 178 And receaved the foile. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey iii. 145 The alternate changes of foiles and victories. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 213 The Lords received the first blow, and gave the first foile. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) XI. 24 It may give a man many a..foil, and many a disheartening blow. 1738 tr. S. Johnson Ad Urbanum in Gentleman's Mag. May Whom no base calumny can put to foil. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xviii. 358 When Africa received her final foil. 1821 J. Baillie W. Wallace in Metrical Legends lv Ashamed and wroth at such unseemly foil. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 232 He thinks No more of yesterday's disgrace and foil. < as lemmas |
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