英语词汇“to hunt the letter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. to hunt (also †affect, †lick) the letter: to practise or study alliteration. In later use chiefly with reference to Renaissance or classical poetry.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > use figure of structure or thought [verb (intransitive)] > alliterate (of words) > practise alliteration

to hunt (also affect, lick) the letter1575

to lick the letter1605

alliterate1804

1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. T.iiii^v They do so hunte a letter to death, that they make it Crambé.

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. I scorne and spue out the rakehellye route of our ragged rymers (for so themselues vse to hunt the letter).

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 55 I wil somthing affect the letter, for it argues facilitie.

1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 27 The English and Welsh delighted much in licking the letter.

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? Pref. I could haue played the foole in alliteration, and hunted the letter as you haue done.

1869 N. Brit. Rev. Oct. 64/1 Mr. Browning is Saxon, and not Latin, when he hunts the letter with clash and clatter like Holophernes.

1900 S. E. Winbolt in tr. Virgil Georgics I. 79 Note the alliterations on p, v, and s. It is seldom that Virgil ‘hunts the letter’ to the extent of l. 389.

1942 T. R. Glover Challenge of Greek 211 We cannot think of Homer hunting the letter.

单词	to hunt the letter
释义	> as lemmas to hunt (also †affect, †lick) the letter P2. to hunt (also †affect, †lick) the letter: to practise or study alliteration. In later use chiefly with reference to Renaissance or classical poetry. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > use figure of structure or thought [verb (intransitive)] > alliterate (of words) > practise alliteration to hunt (also affect, lick) the letter1575 to lick the letter1605 alliterate1804 1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. T.iiii^v They do so hunte a letter to death, that they make it Crambé. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. I scorne and spue out the rakehellye route of our ragged rymers (for so themselues vse to hunt the letter). 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 55 I wil somthing affect the letter, for it argues facilitie. View more context for this quotation 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 27 The English and Welsh delighted much in licking the letter. 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? Pref. I could haue played the foole in alliteration, and hunted the letter as you haue done. 1869 N. Brit. Rev. Oct. 64/1 Mr. Browning is Saxon, and not Latin, when he hunts the letter with clash and clatter like Holophernes. 1900 S. E. Winbolt in tr. Virgil Georgics I. 79 Note the alliterations on p, v, and s. It is seldom that Virgil ‘hunts the letter’ to the extent of l. 389. 1942 T. R. Glover Challenge of Greek 211 We cannot think of Homer hunting the letter. extracted from lettern.¹ < as lemmas
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