单词 | to lippen for |
释义 | > as lemmasto lippen for 1. intransitive. To confide, rely, trust. Const. to, till; occasionally in, into, of, on, unto. Also in indirect passive. to lippen for: To look confidently for. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > trust, have confidence in [verb (intransitive)] lippenc1175 trustc1225 trustena1382 hang1393 licken1535 confide1654 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 37 Ne lipnie ȝe no al to eower festene. a1200 Moral Ode 22 Ne lipnie na mon to muchel to childe ne to wiue. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. ciiv Thus may ye lippin on the lake throu lair yt I leir. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 68 To thy auld serwandis haff e, That lang hes lipinit into the. 1563 J. Davidson Answer to Tractiue Kennedy in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) I. 208 Thay disseave baith thaim selves and all uthers quha lippinnis in thaim. 1577 G. Buchanan Let. Aug. in Vernac. Writ. (1892) 58 Yf ye gett it not or thys winter be passit, lippin not for it. 1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) 456 We must lippen much to the old charter, Providebit Dominus. 1685 T. Sharp Let. 5 Mar. in R. Thoresby Diary (1830) I. 68 I lippened, as we say, of you, else [etc.]. 1789 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 490 I lippen'd to the chiel in trouth. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ix, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 228 I jaloused him..no to be the friend to government he pretends: the family are not to lippen to. 1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. 49 A gude-hertit crater, but ye cudna lippen till him. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona ii. 23 I would lippen to Eli's word—ay, if it was the Chevalier, or Appin himsel'. < as lemmas |
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