单词 | to keep one's touch |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep one's touch (a) To keep a promise, to keep faith (with a person); to act faithfully. Also to keep one's touch. Cf. Phrases 1c. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > observe, adhere, or keep a promise [verb (intransitive)] to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290 beholda1400 to hold touch (also the touches)c1400 faithc1410 withholda1450 to keep touch1541 adherec1550 as good as one's word (also promise)c1560 inhere1563 watch1608 maximize1875 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > be faithful or trustworthy [verb (intransitive)] > to a promise to keep one's tongue1390 to hold touch (also the touches)c1400 to keep touch1541 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxxix. f. 95v By kepynge his promise and touch. ?c1562 Maner of World 90 Amonge them that are riche No frendshyp is to kepe tuche. ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lxxviii. 219 They kept not..true tutch wyth God, hys pact they oueryed. 1612 in M. C. Questier Newslett. Archpresbyterate G. Birkhead (1998) 189 Hopinge thatt yow will remember mee when I am dedd I intende to keepe tuche with yow whiles I live. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 64 Quoth Hudibras, Thou offer'st much, But art not able to keep touch. 1666 Earl of Castlemaine Acct. Present War Venetians & Turk 60 The report of not being able to keep touch with their Militia, has done them such discredit, that scarce any now voluntarily come to their Service. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 47 To promise every body and keep touch with no body. 1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 68 When the week came round, did the glittering phantom..keep touch with me? < as lemmas |
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