| 单词 | to keep house together |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep house together (b) To maintain and preside over a household; (also †to keep one's house) to have one's home, reside (in a place). to keep house with: to reside in and maintain a house with; similarly to keep house together. Also figurative. Now archaic. [Compare Middle French tenir maison, used with adverb of place (a1407).] ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] wonc725 erdec893 siteOE liveeOE to make one's woningc960 through-wonOE bigc1175 walkc1225 inwonea1300 lenda1300 lenga1300 lingera1300 erthec1300 stallc1315 lasta1325 lodge1362 habit?a1366 breeda1375 inhabitc1374 indwella1382 to have one's mansionc1385 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 keepc1400 repairc1400 to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 winc1425 to make (one's) residence1433 resort1453 abidec1475 use1488 remaina1500 demur1523 to keep one's house1523 occupy1523 reside1523 enerdc1540 kennel1552 bower1596 to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597 subsist1618 mansiona1638 tenant1650 fastena1657 hospitate1681 wont1692 stay1754 to hang out1811 home1832 habitate1866 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > inhabit house to hold or keep householdc1425 housec1440 to keep house1523 to take up housec1600 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxv. f. lvi/1 The kyng withall his nauy lay in the hauyn of Sluse and there he kept his house. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxii[i]. 9 Which maketh the baren woman to kepe house. 1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. B2 When the fiery spirit of hot youth Kept house within me. 1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty 14 I am Poverty;..One that hath kept house with you this thirty years and upwards. 1702 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 172 Her majestie will not begin to keep house as queen till the 1st of July. 1793 European Mag. & London Rev. Feb. 98/1 At that period he and a maiden sister kept house together. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 2 In this the children play'd at keeping house. 1890 Temple Bar Sept. 43 The pair began to keep house upon love and hope. 1908 Northeastern Reporter 83 90/2 While in Springfield he kept house and was registered as a voter there. 1945 C. R. Fay Life & Labour in Nineteenth Cent. (ed. 3) ii. 17 Imperialism was picked up by protection, and for some years the two kept house together in uneasy..companionship. 1994 J. Updike Brazil xxvi. 211 Farms..where a single couple..kept house with their chickens and pigs. < as lemmas |
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