| 单词 | to hold champerty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hold (also make) champerty b. to hold (also make) champerty: to hold rivalry or contest, to hold the field against, to maintain the struggle, resist. Obsolete.Lydgate appears to have known the word only from Chaucer's phrase above, which he misunderstood. Some of the 16th cent. archaists followed Lydgate in his error. Π c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 131 Folk whiche..Dare to theyr wyfes be nat contrarye..Nor withe hem holde ne champartye. c1430 J. Lydgate Chron. Troy ii. xvi They stande full assured Agayne vs all to holde chaumpartye. c1430 J. Lydgate Bochas i. iii Against the heauen to holden champartie. c1430 J. Lydgate Bochas i. xviii. 1597 Trag. Guistard & Sismond ii, in Certaine Worthye Manuscript Poems sig. Dv Yet mought not my frailte geinst such occasions Make no champarty nor no great defence. < as lemmas |
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