英语词汇“to lay a ghost to rest”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. to lay a ghost to rest.

(a) To stop a ghost which is believed to haunt a place or person from manifesting, typically by performing a religious ceremony or other ritual; = to lay a ghost at Phrases 1b. rare.

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1694 French Rogue (new ed.) xv. 158 I might lay this poor disturbed Ghost to rest; that he should be confined to the Lower Shades, and wander about the World no more.

1787 Bostonian Scintillations 24 Dear Mr. S****** pray your best, And lay the Captain's Ghost to rest.

1864 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. Nov. 297 I do not think the good Thomas Flavel, or any other exorciser, could lay my ghost to rest.

1994 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 30 Oct. 24 Casting out demons and laying ghosts to rest is routine for Dominic Walker, Church of England vicar and exorcist.

(b) figurative. To reconcile oneself to the memory of an unpleasant or traumatic incident or period; to put such a memory behind one. Also occasionally: to resolve a controversial issue completely; to put such a controversy behind one. Cf. to lay to rest at rest n.¹ Phrases 10.

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1937 Washington Post 3 Mar. 1/7 I thought we had settled that question for good and for all and laid another controversial ghost to rest.

1991 Financial Times (Nexis) 9 Dec. i. 22 Mr Bush, who delivered three brief but emotional addresses, spent most of his energy laying the ghosts of the past to rest.

2015 L. Holliday Night in with Marilyn Monroe iii. 65 Nora who's spent much of the past few months urging me to get out there and meet someone so that I can lay the ghost of my failed fling with Dillon O'Hara to rest, is a bit down on the whole idea of Adam.

2019 K. Hudson Lowborn ii. 11 I wrote my first novel..a semi-fictionalised version of my childhood that enabled me to lay at least a few ghosts to rest.

单词	to lay a ghost to rest
释义	> as lemmas to lay a ghost to rest d. to lay a ghost to rest. (a) To stop a ghost which is believed to haunt a place or person from manifesting, typically by performing a religious ceremony or other ritual; = to lay a ghost at Phrases 1b. rare. ΚΠ 1694 French Rogue (new ed.) xv. 158 I might lay this poor disturbed Ghost to rest; that he should be confined to the Lower Shades, and wander about the World no more. 1787 Bostonian Scintillations 24 Dear Mr. S****** pray your best, And lay the Captain's Ghost to rest. 1864 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. Nov. 297 I do not think the good Thomas Flavel, or any other exorciser, could lay my ghost to rest. 1994 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 30 Oct. 24 Casting out demons and laying ghosts to rest is routine for Dominic Walker, Church of England vicar and exorcist. (b) figurative. To reconcile oneself to the memory of an unpleasant or traumatic incident or period; to put such a memory behind one. Also occasionally: to resolve a controversial issue completely; to put such a controversy behind one. Cf. to lay to rest at rest n.¹ Phrases 10. ΚΠ 1937 Washington Post 3 Mar. 1/7 I thought we had settled that question for good and for all and laid another controversial ghost to rest. 1991 Financial Times (Nexis) 9 Dec. i. 22 Mr Bush, who delivered three brief but emotional addresses, spent most of his energy laying the ghosts of the past to rest. 2015 L. Holliday Night in with Marilyn Monroe iii. 65 Nora who's spent much of the past few months urging me to get out there and meet someone so that I can lay the ghost of my failed fling with Dillon O'Hara to rest, is a bit down on the whole idea of Adam. 2019 K. Hudson Lowborn ii. 11 I wrote my first novel..a semi-fictionalised version of my childhood that enabled me to lay at least a few ghosts to rest. extracted from ghostn.adj. < as lemmas
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