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单词 to lay full low
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to lay (something) full low

Phrases

(In some phrases difficult to distinguish from low adv.)
P1. on (also at, of, in) low: down low, below; on the earth; = alow adv.1 1. Cf. sense B. 1b. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > ground > [adverb]
sideOE
on (also at, of, in) lowc1225
agroundc1325
in levela1400
upon shorec1400
at-lowa1500
sidelong1667
à terre1922
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 31 (MED) Meiden stont þurh heh lif i þe tur of ierusalem, Nawt of lah on eorðe ah of hehe in heouene.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 119 Þanne ine ous beginneþ þise graces..ine loȝ [Fr. en bas] and sseweþ an heȝ.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11260 (MED) On hei be ioi, and pes on lagh.
a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) l. 147 Suche a lyche here is Has layn loken here on loghe how longe is unknawen.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiv. 175 And truly, syrs, looke that ye trow That othere lord is none at-lowe.
P2. to lay (something) low. Formerly also †to lay (something) full low.
a. To cause to be humble; to abase.In later use merging with Phrases 2b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Royal) 467 Þeo þet heieð ham her leist ham swiðe lahe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1649 I shal hem laye ful lawe þat sett so litil of myn awe.
1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye ii. sig. b.4v It..shal thruste downe the proude countenaunce of man, & shal laye ful lowe his highe lokes.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lx. 48 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 67 [God] shall lay our haters low.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xiii. 11 I..will lay low the hautinesse of the terrible. View more context for this quotation
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Cor. xiv. 36) Take heed lest God for your arrogancy and high spiritedness lay you low enough.
1769 G. Cockings Arts. Manuf. & Commerce 5 No more our dreaded Naval Warriors ride..To blast Hispania's Pride, and lay it low, And transfix Gaul in total Overthrow.
1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 422/2 On the red field of Leipzic he laid the French pride low—He blew the blast of freedom loud at Leipzic, Oho!
1899 New Outlook 4 Nov. 557 God..Intendeth not for my poor heart's undoing, Nor builds again a joy to lay it low.
2003 J. Harris Holy Fools (2004) iv. 357 That malicious instinct of hers to thwart me at every turn and to lay low my pride.
b. To lay out flat; to bring or knock to the ground; to stretch out prone or lifeless. Frequently in passive (often with by). In later use chiefly poetic.In some quots. relating to people, passing into Phrases 2d.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > horizontal position or condition > place in horizontal position [verb (transitive)] > lay flat (on the ground)
layc950
lairc1200
streek1303
to lay lowc1405
prostrate1483
prostern1490
spald1513
prostitute1583
prosternate1593
lodge1597
flatten1712
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > specifically a person or animal
to lay lowc1405
tumble1487
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 118 She shal be clepid his wenche, or his lemman And..Men leyn þt oon as lowe as lyth that oother.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 2729 (MED) And somme he laide to þe erthe lowe.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1219 For I wene this day to ley the as low as thou laydest me.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. c Schir edmond loissit has his life and laid is full lav.
1613 R. Zouche Dove sig. B5 The west of Asia..Hath seene her Cedars reaching to the Skyes, Layd low by his [sc. the Turk's] fierce sacrilegious stroke.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1239 Go baffl'd coward, lest I run upon thee,..And with one buffet lay thy structure low . View more context for this quotation
1740 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 25 Nov. (1966) II. 212 I bought a chaise at Rome..and had the pleasure of being laid low in it the very second day after I set out.
1776 Miss Edwards Miscellanies 74 Quick as the lightening's flash was struck the blow, Which laid the trembling aidless victims low.
1825 J. Hogg Queen Hynde iii. 151 He beat our warriors on the coast,..Threatening their force to overgo, And lay the towers of Selma low.
1898 Argosy Sept. 226 He engaged the three assassins single handed, and held them at bay until a blow from the butt of a pistol laid him low.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 316 Their mudcabins and their shielings by the roadside were laid low by the batteringram.
1997 S. Rollins Borderlines 17 The wind lays bodies low through mud-clotted grass.
c. To lay in the ground; to bury. Now somewhat archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)]
bedelveOE
begraveOE
burya1000
beburyc1000
bifel-ec1000
layc1000
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
tombc1275
gravec1300
inter1303
rekec1330
to lap in leadc1340
to lay to rest, abed, to bed1340
lie1387
to louk in clay (lead, etc.)?a1400
to lay lowa1425
earthc1450
sepulture1490
to put awaya1500
tyrea1500
mould1530
to graith in the grave1535
ingrave1535
intumulate1535
sepult1544
intumil?c1550
yird1562
shrinea1566
infera1575
entomb1576
sepelite1577
shroud1577
funeral1578
to load with earth1578
delve1587
to lay up1591
sepulchrize1595
pit-hole1607
infuneral1610
mool1610
inhumate1612
inurna1616
inhume1616
pit1621
tumulate1623
sepulchrea1626
turf1628
underlay1639
urna1657
to lay to sleep, asleep1701
envaulta1745
plant1785
ensepulchre1820
sheugh1839
to put under1879
to lay away1885
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 862 When it es in erth layd lawe, Wormes þan sal it al to-gnaw.
a1500 (?a1425) Antichrist (Peniarth) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mills Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. App. 496 (MED) Take we the bodye of this swete and ley it loo undre the greet.
1597 R. Tofte Laura xxxv. sig. B7v Farre better had it been I had been dead, And laid full low in latest home, (my graue).
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 164 I would that I were low laid in my graue. View more context for this quotation
1681 J. Shirley Renowned Hist. Guy Earl of Warwick xiv. sig. h3v I fear death has laid him low in some silent Grave, he not having been heard of in these parts for many years.
1777 Westm. Mag. Aug. 440/2 Nature's pride, is dead, Laid low in earth, and all her beauties fled!
1839 M. James Wales 138 With sorrowing heart and tearful eyes, We laid him low, beneath the clod.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xxiv. 35 Use me ere they lay me low Where a man's no use at all.
1997 P. L. Williams True & Authentic Hist. Jenny Dorset (2001) vii. 422 Jenny and I took the boy and laid him low in the grave. She had fetched a blanket from the house to cover him.
d. To destroy, overthrow, kill; to defeat, subdue, suppress; (later, in weakened use) to reduce to weakness or inactivity, esp. as a result of illness, misfortune, etc. Frequently in passive (usually with by, with, etc.).
ΚΠ
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 6873 (MED) Þis riche, strong cite Schal doun be bete and y-layd ful lowe.
1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iv. xxxv. sig. V2 How easie had it beene for thee All the pretendant race t'haue laid full low.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 137 The dire event..Hath..all this mighty Host In horrible destruction laid thus low. View more context for this quotation
1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 192 O! had I met the mortal shaft Which laid my benefactor low!
1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Two More Lett. on Catholics vii. 28 Thou shalt be laid low by a joker of jokes, and he shall talk his pleasant talk against thee, and thou shalt be no more!
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 111 Whenever morality hitches the toe, Delinquent with crab-stick shou'd straight be laid low.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxxix. 61 But thou and I have shaken hands, Till growing winters lay me low . View more context for this quotation
1952 B. Malamud Natural 20 A slambang young pitcher who'd soon be laying them low in the big leagues.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. p. ii/3 When the place is snowbound and the staff laid low with flu, the girls take over.
2009 Private Eye 18 Sept. 7/3 Although diners started keeling over in the first week of January, the restaurant carried on business as usual until late February, while hundreds more were laid low.
P3.
a. to lie low. Formerly also †to lie full low.
(a) To lie on or below the ground, or another surface; to lie prostrate or dead, to be buried; to lie down; to crouch, keep low; (of a structure) to be demolished or brought down; to lie in pieces. Also figurative (chiefly in early use): to be humbled, abased, or brought to an abject condition.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dead
sleepc950
restOE
liea1000
to be deadc1000
to lie lowa1275
layc1300
to be gathered to one's fathersa1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
to sup with our Saviour, with Our (the) Lord, with (Jesus) Christa1400
repose1586
slumber1594
to sup in heaven or hell1642
to turn one's toes up to the daisies1842
to be out of the way1881
to push up daisiesa1918
to have had it1942
RIP1962
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > be humiliated [verb (intransitive)]
to light lowc1225
to lie lowa1275
to carry (also bear) coalsa1529
to eat the (or one's) leek1600
to lose caste1828
to eat dirt1857
the world > space > relative position > posture > assume or hold a posture [verb (intransitive)] > low down
to lie lowa1275
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > lie down or recline [verb (intransitive)] > on or in the ground
to lie full lowa1275
a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 47 (MED) Þou, wrecche beli, lists nu ful louwe [c1275 Calig. þu schald nu in eorþe liggen ful lohe].
c1300 St. Edward Elder (Laud) 131 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 50 Him þouȝte it was wel vuele i-do þat he lai so lowe þere, Þat he nere i-bured in herre stude.
a1350 (c1307) in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 22 Aȝein þe heþene forte fyhte To wynne þe croiȝ þat lowe lys.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1649 (MED) I sal do þam lij ful lau þat letes sua lightly on min au.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xx. l. 10 That lucifers lordshup ligge sholde ful lowe.
c1480 (a1400) St. Luke 80 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 248 Þe angel his trumpe sal blav, & ger þame ryse þat lyis law.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxviiv His auter is broke, and lowe lythe.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 297 The castell als thai gart it lig full law.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 2 Behind the Bus (Lord) bot I liggit law.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N4v Beside a bubling fountaine low she lay.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 52 If he could right himselfe with quarrelling, Some of vs would lie low . View more context for this quotation
1651 C. Cob Sect every where spoken Against ii. 28 We were made to own, and bow, and lie under our conditions as undone Persons, if Mercy help'd not out: Thus we lay low for a time.
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiii. 979 But since yon' Rampart by thy Arms lay low, I scatter'd Slaughter from my fatal Bow.
1765 R. Whytt Observ. Disorders Nerv. Hypochondriac vi. 271 Lying low on her face seemed to give her still greater uneasiness than lying low on her back.
1810 P. B. Shelley Posthumous Fragm. M. Nicholson 7 Monarch thou For whose support this fainting frame lies low.
1879 J. D. Long tr. Virgil Æneid ii. 730 Priam by the sword Lies low.
1918 N. L. McClung Three Times & Out xxi. 201 But she did not see us, as we lay low in the scrub.
1933 R. Jeffers Give your Heart to Hawks xi. 71 Your mother, whom I think you love, is just now Lying low between life and death, and you leave her To chase the wind.
1999 M. P. MacDonald All Souls vii. 156 She crawled fast over to Seamus and Steven, kept them lying low, and dragged them over to a corner of the house where there were no windows.
(b) To be in a low place or position; (of land or its physical features) to lie at a low level; to lie close to or below sea level. Also: to be of little height. Cf. low-lying n. and adj. at Compounds 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > low position > be low in position [verb (intransitive)]
to lie low1567
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 76 To ly rycht law in till ane Crib.
1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 171 It lyeth low, by reason whereof it is much indammaged by flouds.
c1714 W. Sutherland in J. B. Hattendorf et al. Brit. Naval Documents 1204–1960 (1993) (modernized text) 268 The Edgar..had a hold abaft the mainmast, flat floored that the weight lay low.
1766 W. Stork Acct. E.-Florida 26 The word swamp is peculiar to America; it there signifies a tract of land that is sound and good, but by lying low is covered by water.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 316 But if the place or Mine lies low, it is usual to say, ‘He is gone to Moor.’
1873 H. H. Jackson Poems 218 Dead lily-bells lie low, and in their place A rounded disk of pearly pink is seen.
1895 W. C. Wilkinson in G. C. Lorimer People's Bible Hist. (1896) xii. 635/1 We must remember that the lake lies low—680 feet below the sea.
1973 A. Ginsberg Coll. Poems (1988) 609 Hillside grass where mushrooms lie low on Cow-Flops in Queensland.
2000 J. Griffiths Grip on Thin Air 12 Fields lying low beneath Dark and sentinel trees, waiting For night to draw in.
(c) colloquial (originally slang). Esp. of a criminal: to keep out of sight so as to avoid detection or attention; to keep a low profile. Also: to bide one's time.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > remain in hiding
lurkc1300
to hide one's headc1475
mitch1558
nestle1567
to lie at (on, upon the) lurch1578
to lay low1600
skulk1626
squat1658
to lie by1709
hide1872
to hole up1875
to lie low1880
to lie (also play) doggo1882
to hide out1884
to put the lid on1966
1845 G. Flagg Let. 10 Jan. in Flagg Corr. (1986) 91 To induce the Editors of Papers of both parties to either come out on favor of the new Constitution or if they could not do that to ‘lie low and keep dark’.
1880 J. C. Harris Uncle Remus (1881) ii. 20 De Tar-Baby, she sot dar, she did, en Brer Fox, he lay low.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Mar. 3/1 Mr. N——..has not really been dead at all, but only ‘lying low’ in Canada.
1894 Lady M. Verney Verney Mem. III. 475 Royalists who had lain low were showing signs of life.
1901 Scotsman 2 Mar. 9/4 To that end the opposition lay low.
1937 W. M. Raine Bucky follows Cold Trail iii. 24 ‘You lie low until the car gets to town.’ Young Cameron laughed. ‘I'm not on the dodge, Tim.’
1998 I. Rankin Hanging Garden (1999) xxii. 260 He's lying low. I've been trying to talk to him for a week.
b. to lay low: = to lie low at Phrases 3a (esp. Phrases 3a(c)).For a discussion of this use of lay as a substitute for lie, see lay v.1 43a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > remain in hiding
lurkc1300
to hide one's headc1475
mitch1558
nestle1567
to lie at (on, upon the) lurch1578
to lay low1600
skulk1626
squat1658
to lie by1709
hide1872
to hole up1875
to lie low1880
to lie (also play) doggo1882
to hide out1884
to put the lid on1966
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xix. xi. 339 Tancred laid low and trauerst in his fight.
a1687 H. More Antidote against Atheism ii. iii. 49 in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) Whether it might not have laid so low in the Earth as never to have been reached.
1833 Life & Adventures Col. D. Crockett xiii. 154 I determined to obey one of our backwoods sayings, ‘Lay low and keep dark stranger.’
a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1883) viii. 70 They may..let their chances slide at cards, but my notion is they're layin' low for bigger hauls.
1894 W. T. Stead If Christ came to Chicago 225 The Democrats laid low and said nothing, for reasons of their own.
1907 M. C. Harris Tents of Wickedness iv. iii. 359 He..laid low for the first passer-by, and slugged him.
1991 P. Marshall Daughters (1992) iii. iv. 296 Just laying low over here in the jungle for a while. Trying to get my strength back after the hurtin' Sandy Lawson and his friends downtown put on me.
2009 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl who kicked Hornets' Nest iv. 62 We decided to lay low when you and Magge were busted—until we knew the lay of the land.
P4. to bring low: to bring to a poor or undesirable condition, with respect to health, wealth, strength, or circumstances; to humble; (also) to bring further down, esp. towards the ground or some other downward limit. Cf. low-brought adj. at Compounds 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade [verb (transitive)]
vile1297
supplanta1382
to bring lowa1387
revilea1393
gradea1400
villain1412
abject?a1439
to-gradea1440
vilifyc1450
villainy1483
disparage1496
degradea1500
deject?1521
disgraduate1528
disgress1528
regrade1534
base1538
diminute1575
lessen1579
to turn down1581
to pitch (a person) over the bar?1593
disesteem1594
degender1596
unnoble1598
disrank1599
reduce1599
couch1602
disthrone1603
displume1606
unplume1621
disnoble1622
disworth?1623
villainize1623
unglory1626
ungraduate1633
disennoble1645
vilicate1646
degraduate1649
bemean1651
deplume1651
lower1653
cheapen1654
dethrone1659
diminish1667
scoundrel1701
sink1706
demean1715
abjectate1731
unglorifya1740
unmagnify1747
undignify1768
to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819
dishero1838
misdemean1843
downgrade1892
demote1919
objectify1973
the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)]
sicka1340
distemperc1380
to bring low1530
distemperate1547
unsound1560
sicken1694
qualm1733
sicklify1851
the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > make weak
fellOE
wastec1230
faintc1386
endull1395
resolvea1398
afaintc1400
defeat?c1400
dissolvec1400
weakc1400
craze1476
feeblish1477
debilite1483
overfeeble1495
plucka1529
to bring low1530
debilitate1541
acraze1549
decaya1554
infirma1555
weaken1569
effeeble1571
enervate1572
enfeeble1576
slay1578
to pull downa1586
prosternate1593
shake1594
to lay along1598
unsinew1598
languefy1607
enerve1613
pulla1616
dispirit1647
imbecilitate1647
unstring1700
to run down1733
sap1755
reduce1767
prostrate1780
shatter1785
undermine1812
imbecile1829
disinvigorate1844
devitalize1849
wreck1850
atrophy1865
crumple1892
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 277 His sone Occe..was byseged at Ȝork, and [i]-brouȝte lowe [L. humiliato].
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 468/1 For all his great bely, this syckenesse hath brought hym lowe ynoughe.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. ii. 7 The Lorde..bryngeth lowe and exalteth.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 2 Quhen he saw the vertues of the Bruse..and how laich [he] was brocht.
1611 Bible (King James) Job xl. 12 Looke on euery one that is proud, and bring him low . View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 30 His father..brought his estate so low, as to want even necessaries.
1706 J. Oldmixon Iberia Liberata 6 Heav'ns dread Vengeance tho its Pace is slow, Strikes Home and brings the proud Aspirer Low.
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 294 The nobles of Savoy..have long since been brought low.
1819 P. B. Shelley Julian & Maddalo 601 Perhaps remorse had brought her low.
1859 Christian Repository June 463 I thought I would bring the soaring eagle low!
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust (Boston ed.) II. ii. iii. 176 At one quick blow Shoot, and bring low!
1926 Bee (Danville, Va.) 24 Sept. 4/2 (headline) The prognosticants are brought low.
2011 Church Times 25 Nov. 21/2 It is the latter, Bosie, who is the seductress, and Wilde is Herod, brought low by this need to please the boy.
P5. to go low: to be defeated. Cf. to go down 2 at go v. Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete.
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?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 23 (MED) Þe kyng herd þat telle, þat his side ȝede lowe.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 100 (MED) To þe bataile he nam; Roberd side ȝede lowe.
P6. to run low.
a. Of a source or supply of something, originally something liquid: to be nearly exhausted or used up; to be much reduced; to become scarce, scanty, or meagre. Of a vessel, a person, etc.: to have little of a supply remaining; to be almost out of something (also with on). Cf. senses A. 5b, A. 18.
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1580 T. Churchyard Pleasaunte Laborinth: Churchyardes Chance f. 32 When that the wine, hath ronne full lowe, Thou shalt be glad, to drinke the lyes.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 747 To drinke wine lustilie, when the vessell is either newly pierced or runneth low.
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. E It will bee a reasonable vsefull pawne at all times, when the current of his money falles out to run low.
1658 T. Goodwin Fair Prospect Ded. sig. A3 Her natural strength, and Abilities began to run low, and on Tilt, as it were.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iii. 10 I am afraid our Credit will run low.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 22 Recollection tires, and chat runs low.
1859 J. W. De Forest Seacliff 423 He told me that he really believed I was running low, and that he was going to look elsewhere for money.
1891 Chambers's Jrnl. 21 Mar. 189/2 Funds began to run very low.
1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iii. 190 The fire was dying then and the paraffin had run low in the lamp.
1988 L. Ellmann Sweet Desserts (1989) 91 I trudged, Lily complained, my money ran low.
2003 New Statesman 7 Apr. 50/1 Human beings began as nomads, upping sticks whenever they ran low on food or water.
b. Of dice: to turn up the smallest, or particularly small, numerical values; to turn up a sequence of these. Cf. sense A. 15c. Obsolete.
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1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica 59/2 See me these dice run low.
1638 Come Worldling (single sheet) Ile pay what you call, with me I beseech you be bold: Dice run low or high, My Gold it shall fly.
1649 Duke of Newcastle Country Captaine iv. i. 58 Cator ace they [sc. the dice] run low sir.
1744 Z. Grey in Butler's Hudibras (new ed.) I. 338 The High Fulhams being Dice which always ran high; and the Low Fulhams those that ran low.
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