单词 | to make prize |
释义 | > as lemmasto make prize (of) b. to make prize (of): to confiscate, seize, or capture. Also figurative. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (transitive)] > capture or seize as prize prizea1500 to make prize (of)1597 to pick up1687 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 177 A beauty-waining and distressed widow..Made prise and purchase of his lustfull eye. View more context for this quotation 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 68 Diuerse ships..had beene taken at sea, and the goods therein made prize, and confiscate. a1657 J. Balfour Hist. Wks. (1825) IV. 273 In respecte they had takin a shipe of his and made her pryce. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 10 We resolv'd to make Prize of it, as in a time of War. 1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne vi. 182 He made prize of all the good thoughts that came in his way. 1827 S. B. H. Judah Buccaneers I. i. 43 The numerous inlets..afforded these desperadoes convenient concealment..while watching the departure of some outward bound trader, who, from its rich cargo, was worthy of making prize. 1934 G. N. Clark Later Stuarts 160 More than once squadrons of considerable force cruised in the Atlantic to make prize of merchant vessels. 1997 R. Silverberg Longest Voy. 416 A day later he [sc. O. van Noort] made prize of a Chinese sampan bound for Manila with a cargo of rice and lead. < as lemmas |
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