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单词 to make or enter into a covenant
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to make or enter into a covenant
a. A mutual agreement between two or more persons to do or refrain from doing certain acts; a compact, contract, bargain; sometimes, the undertaking, pledge, or promise of one of the parties. Phrases, to make or enter into a covenant; to hold, keep, break covenant (No longer in ordinary use, except when coloured by legal or theological associations.)
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accordc1275
covenant1297
end1297
form1297
frettec1330
conjurationc1374
treatc1380
bargainc1386
contractc1386
comenaunt1389
compositionc1405
treaty1427
pact1429
paction1440
reconventionc1449
treatisea1464
hostage1470
packa1475
trystc1480
bond (also band) of manrent1482
covenance1484
concordance1490
patisement1529
capitulation1535
conventmenta1547
convenience1551
compact1555
negotiation1563
sacrament1563
match1569
consortship1592
after-agreementa1600
combourgeoisie1602
convention1603
comburghership1606
transaction1611
end-makingc1613
obligement1627
bare contract1641
stipulation1649
accompackmentc1650
rue-bargaina1657
concordat1683
minute1720
tacka1758
understanding1803
meet1804
it's a go1821
deal1863
whizz1869
stand-in1870
gentlemen's agreement1880
meeting of minds1883
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c1315 Shoreham 64 Hit is wykked condicioun, Covenaunt of schrewead-hede.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7484 ‘Sir King’, he said, ‘hald me couenand’.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 871 Haue I nat holden couenant vn to thee.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 103 They made couenaunt that they sholde slee him.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 999 Ne he keppid no couenaund to þe kynd maydon.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Matrimonie f. xiiii*v So these persons may surely perfourme and kepe the vowe and couenaunt betwixt them made.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxi. 27 And Abraham tooke sheepe and oxen, and gaue them vnto Abimelech: and both of them made a couenant [1535 Coverdale bond together] . View more context for this quotation
1643 J. Caryl Nature Sacred Covenant 7 A Covenant..is more than a promise, and lesse than a Oath.
1645 Directory Publique Worship 61 Who are now to be joyned in the honourable Estate of Marriage, the Covenant of their God.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 246 Bad men, profaning friendship's hallow'd name, Form, in its stead, a covenant of shame.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. vi. i. 17 He had entered into a covenant for mutual support with forty of the king's other slaves.
β. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 3722 Al þat lond By certeyn conuenant was in Kyng Artures hond.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2352 Our lauerd him held for treu conuenand.a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Svii Haistelie my conuenent I brak.γ. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 57 Suane..to þat conant him bond.a1400–50 Alexander 5543 He [Alexander] makis a conand with his kniȝtis.1483 Cath. Angl. 74 To breke Conande, depacisci..To make Conande, pacisci.1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1345 To Bruce sen syne he kepit na connand.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 753 Ye cunnand on yis wys was maid.a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. Prol. 102 Quhou mony crakkyt cunnand!1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKvi Their eares also hath made a conuencion or conande with reason.δ. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 108 Cumnawnte [v.rr. comnawnt, cunaunt], pactum, fedus, convencio.
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