单词 | to give a person meeting |
释义 | > as lemmasto give a person (the, a) meeting b. [Compare French donner rendez-vous (1628 or earlier).] to give a person (the, a) meeting: to have a meeting (also, † a duel) with a person. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > meet or assemble for common purpose [verb (intransitive)] > make appointment for meeting take?a1400 appoint1509 to give a person (the, a) meeting1565 1565 T. Havard Let. 16 Dec. in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) I. ii. 207 Wherby as it is reported fewe ffryse men do of late Repayre to the seyd Cytye so that the Occupyers of the seyd Cytye be driven to geve metinge to the ffryse men out of the lib(er)tyes. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 25 A friend..whom they were to procure to come disguised, and give them the meeting. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 35 Promising that he would not onely give him meeting, but take pay under him. 1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. Y1 At length, with much intreaty, he gave her a meeting. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 147 That..he would come to Bath in the winter, where I promised to give him the meeting. 1833 T. B. Macaulay War Succession in Spain in Ess. (1903) I. 509 The King resolved to give her the meeting in Catalonia. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xii. 301 You ask me to give you a meeting. 1867 J. Ingelow Story of Doom 268 I had crossed the sea, And half the sphere to give her meeting. 1910 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. IV. 91 Angel Woman, younger, fairer Far than she that now we know, Gave men meeting with a rarer Grace. < as lemmas |
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