单词 | to let a thing bide |
释义 | > as lemmasto let a thing bide 4. Of things: To remain, be left. to let a thing bide: to leave it where it is; to leave it alone for the present, to let it stand over. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > remain or be left [verb (intransitive)] to be leftOE leaveOE abidea1393 bidec1400 remainc1425 resta1500 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > abstain from interfering with to let alonec897 leaveOE to let bec1000 to let bec1175 to let (a person or thing) yworth?c1225 to let (something) standa1400 to let dwella1500 to leave to oneself (also itself)?1531 let1818 to let a thing bide1866 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 449 Þaȝ þe kyste in the cragez wern closed to byde. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 166 A gret power at Dipplyn still thar baid. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. lxxix. sig. ll.vi/2 Yf thei byde [a1398 BL Add. adydeþ] in the stomak they torne sone to fumosyte & corrupcion. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 154 Heauen and earth shal sooner perish, then one iot bide behind of that he hath promised. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 72 Waters stinke soone, if in one place they bide. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iv. 141 We will..let the crow bide. < as lemmas |
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