| 单词 | to raise the laugh against |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto raise the laugh against b. to raise the laugh against: to make an object of ridicule. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > laugh to scorn > cause laughter at someone to raise the laugh against1737 1737 Presbytery of Edinb.'s Reply Affair W. Wishart 66 Are the Gentlemen Lawyers serious in this Instance? Surely not: and therefore they must thereby raise the Laugh of their Readers against them. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vii. 61 This effectually raised the laugh against poor Moses. 1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. iv. xxxiv. 325 That, you know would raise the laugh against us all horridly. 1848 R. Blakey Hist. Philos. Mind (1850) III. xvi. 260 His chief aim was to raise the laugh against any thing he was disinclined to adopt or to investigate profoundly. 1918 W. L. Cross Hist. Henry Fielding III. xxxvi. 279 Subsequently he raised the laugh against the English Jacobites, against Foote and Dr. Hill and the tribe of Grub Street. 1922 Open Court June 371 It is on this point in particular that Jules Lemaître..raised the laugh against him. < as lemmas |
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