| 单词 | to lay claim to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lay claim to a. A demand for something as due; an assertion of a right to something. (Const. as in 2.) to lay claim to: to assert one's right to, claim. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > claiming as due or right > claim or a demand for something as due challengec1314 claim1393 oncalla1400 acclaim1546 pretext1591 plea1598 pretendence1603 pretendment1642 the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > demand > claim claim1393 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > claim challengea1240 claimc1320 pretend?a1425 vouch1488 to lay claim to1584 assert1649 vindicate1680 to take up1810 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > put forward a claim claim1303 to call upon ——1472 represent1498 to lay in1603 to lay claim toa1616 title1633 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 250 His claime is unanswerde. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9304 Sum o þaim Again mi sagh sal sett claim [Trin. Cambr. cleym]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 80 Cleyme or chalaunge, vendicacio. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxxiv. 48 Ther was clayme and answer made bytwene parties..and right and iudgement gyuen. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 230 To make a clayme to the Crowne of Fraunce. 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 243 His claime on Jerusalem. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. ii. 84 What claime laies she to thee? View more context for this quotation 1748 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1874) II. 314 Persons are not to be their own judges in claims of justice. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 34 Advancing no higher claim. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xxiii. 177 Constant claims are set up to the estates of other men by..crafty persons. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. viii. 107 Notice..requiring all persons claiming to vote..to send in their claims within a time limited. < as lemmas |
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