| 单词 | to rest in peace |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rest in peace a. intransitive. To lie dead or in the grave. Frequently in to rest in peace. 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 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 962 Her forðferde Ælfgar..& his lic rest on Wiltune. OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Corpus Cambr. 41) 25 Dec. 3 Hire lichama resteð nu on Romebirig. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 8600 Þenne þi lif endeð, þer þu scalt resten. c1300 St. Katherine (Laud) l. 295 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 100 Þare..hire bones restez ȝuyte. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 401 Seint Edburgh..resteþ [?a1475 anon. tr. beriede; L. quiescentem] at Wynchestre. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1079 (MED) Þe bodi moght he nan-gat hide, For vnder erth most it not rest. 1467 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 200 (MED) My body to rest in our lady chapell. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xlvii. 23 Thus rested Salomon with his fathers. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Wheare lyes strong Hector... Wheare stout Serpedon dooth rest. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 63 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) He builded Cels and Monasteries, but chiefely at Achadbo, where he resteth. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 598 I shall shortly be with them that rest . View more context for this quotation 1748 T. Gray Ode in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems II. 266 Their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. ii. 235 A set of poor souls you won't let rest in their coffins. 1813 Ld. Byron Diary 23 Nov. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1974) III. 215 Why should Junius be yet dead?.. Would he rest in his grave? 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxix Into her merits or demerits I do not enter deeply here. Let her rest in peace. 1888 W. H. H. Rogers Memorials of West Notes 391 She rests in a wedge-shaped coffin, which is sarcophagused within the tomb in the presbytery. 1901 A. Castle & E. Castle Secret Orchard xli. 308 Succour his soul, O Saints of God, meet him, Angels of God, receive him. May he rest in peace, may he rest in peace! 1958 Naugatuck (Connecticut) Daily News 20 Jan. 1/1 A West Northville man who died a pauper in 1946 now rests in the grave willed to him by his grandmother. 2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 47/3 (advt.) She was my grandma, she was my strength, she was my diamond, may she now rest in peace. < as lemmas |
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