单词 | to know the old dance |
释义 | > as lemmasto know the old dance ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > [noun] thingOE processa1325 fare1340 dancea1352 passage1569 play1581 procedure1590 carriage1609 conduct1706 démarche1721 affair1797 proceeding1801 the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > (a) course of conduct or action wayeOE pathOE waya1225 tracea1300 line13.. dancea1352 tenor1398 featc1420 faction1447 rink?a1500 footpath1535 trade1536 vein1549 tract1575 course1582 road1600 country dance1613 track1638 steeragea1641 rhumb1666 tack1675 conduct1706 walk1755 wheel-way1829 a1352 L. Minot Poems i. 66 At Donde now es done þaire daunce, And wend þai most anoþer way. a1352 L. Minot Poems v. 14 Sare it þam smerted þat ferd out of France, Þare lered Inglis men þam a new daunce. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 478 Of remedies of loue she knew per chaunce For she koude of that art the olde daunce. 1423 Kingis Quair clxxxv Tham that ar noght entrit inne The dance of lufe. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 86 God for his merci and pitee kepe Ynglond, that he come not into lijk daunce. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 53/1 The lord Stanley and he had departed with diuerse other lordes, and broken all the daunce. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. xv. 200 The Emperour..troubled, at this too long, and too bloody dance. 1733 Walpole in Morley Life (1889) viii. 174 This dance..will no further go. I meant well, but..the Act could not be carried into execution without an armed force. < as lemmas |
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