单词 | to keep school |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep (also †hold) (†a) school a. to keep (also †hold) (†a) school: to run a school; also figurative. Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [verb (intransitive)] > teach in school to keep (also hold) (a) schoola1393 to teach school1590 schoolmaster1818 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 71 (MED) Þanne he come aȝen into Fraunce and hilde open scole [L. publicas scholas tenuit].] a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 3373 For whanne I schal myn yhen close, Anon min herte he [sc. love] wole oppose And holde his Scole in such a wise, Til it be day that I arise. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 21105 (MED) I lernede my konnyng off Sathan, Wych halt hys scole nat hennys ffer. 1487 W. Caxton tr. J. Legrand Bk. Good Maners i. xvii. sig. diii He became so po[re] that for to gete his lyuyng, he taught the lesson and helde sc[ole] to smale chyldren of Corinthye. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Ludum aperire, to beginne to keepe a schoole. 1604 Act 1 Jas. I c. 4 §8 No person shall keepe any schoole..except it be in some publike or free Grammer Schoole, [etc.]. 1699 J. Dunton Dublin Scuffle 333 They have also another Law, That no Papist shall keep a School. 1749 S. Fielding Governess i. 10 The most severe Punishment she had ever inflicted on any Misses, since she had kept a school, was now laid on these wicked Girls. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1712 I. 12 He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Lichfield. 1828–30 W. Godwin in C. K. Paul Life (1876) II. 304 [Eugene Aram] keeps school at Netherdale. 1883 Harper's Mag. July 226/1 By keeping school..she strove to provide for her..family. 1927 L. Saxon Father Mississippi iv. 31 Aunt Julia had charge of the children of the field laborers, and kept ‘school’ in her cabin while the parents were at work. 2001 L. Ulrich Age of Homespun v. 184 Like most future clerics, he spent his first years after college keeping school. < as lemmas |
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