单词 | to make rehearsal |
释义 | > as lemmasto make rehearsal a. The action or fact of recounting or reciting something, or of repeating something previously heard, written, or spoken; narration, recital, repetition; (also) the action of mentioning a number or set of things one by one; enumeration. Also: an instance of this. Formerly esp. in †to make rehearsal. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun] rehearsalc1405 rehearse1429 repetition1579 spouting1581 hersall1590 recitation1623 absolutiona1637 rendition1851 rep1858 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) G. §3. l. 852 Forgat I to maken rehersaille Of watres corosif and of lymaille. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 6494 Blowe forþe by fame, By rehersaille of þe foule blame. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 500 (MED) Leernyng is þe firste taking of a kunnyng, and remembring is þe rehercel of þe same kunnyng to stabile and conferme and holde þe same leernyng. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 36 Holi Scripture makith rehercel of many treuthis. a1500 (?a1410) J. Lydgate Churl & Bird (Lansd.) 44 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 470 Whilom ther was..As myn auctour makith rehersail, A cherl. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxviii. [ccxxiv.] 711 The erle of Derby spake certayne wordes.., wenynge that they shulde neuer haue ben called to rehersall. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xviijv The rehersall of euery sinne particularly is not necessary. 1599 Warning for Faire Women i. 682 I can make rehearsal of the words Did pass betwixt you, if I were disposed. 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. 120 The rehearsal of that Adventure pleased them as much as the other. 1697 K. Chetwood Life Virgil in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. *4v This Poem being now in great forwardness, Cæsar..would needs be entertained with the rehearsal of some part of it. 1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes iv. 303 I would save his Majesty the pain of hearing the rehearsal of them. 1782 Excellent Coll. Pious & Devout Medit. ii. 35 I omit here to speak of [these]... For if I should make rehearsal of them, I should never make an end. 1788 J. Trusler Habitable World Described II. 274 A kind of prayer-wheel..containing written prayers;..each motion of a written prayer being considered efficacious as a rehearsal of it. 1842 S. Knowles Rose of Arragon ii. i. 27 Many..made it a pretext for rehearsal of old grievances. 1870 in Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. II. xxiii. 192 The rehearsal of the tragedy of Captain Cook's death. 1899 T. Veblen Theory of Leisure Class vi. 122 All ritual has a notable tendency to reduce itself to a rehearsal of formulas. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xi Therefore make your best speed back into daylight, noting all things as you go, for rehearsal hereafter to your wife. 1994 Nat. Hist. Apr. 4/2 Our burgeoning press provide enhanced opportunity for rehearsal of such narrishkeit ad nauseam. < as lemmas |
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