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单词 to pay scot
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to pay (for) (one's) scot
3. The charge or amount to be paid, esp. at a tavern or for entertainment; a person's share of such a payment; a bill. Chiefly (esp. in later use) in to pay (for) (one's) scot and variants: to pay (one's share of) a bill (frequently figurative).In quot. 1729: a debt.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > share contributed by individual > for entertainment
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c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 6001 Verst hii wolde ete & drinke..& suþþe þe louerd of þe hous quelle..& suþþe brenne al is hous al uor hor scot ywis.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 51 And þanne me hine [sc. the glutton] anhongeþ. Þis is þet scot: þet me ofte payþ.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. xxiii. 331 Aftir soper þat is freliche iȝeue hit is not honeste to compelle a man to paye his scot.
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 147 (MED) That is thilke that biseecheth bred for the loue of god and wole in no place paye scotte [Fr. Escot] for no thing that she dispendeth.
c1450 (a1375) Octavian (Calig.) (1979) l. 1295 (MED) Þer nas old ne yng Þat ne schold haue led For hys scotte euery ferdyng.
a1475 (a1450) Tournam. of Tottenham (Harl.) (1930) l. 20 (MED) Þay schuld rekyn þer scot [a1500 Cambr. skot] and þer contes cast.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) ci. 135 God payeth þe grete scot, for he rendreth to C double.
1557 Dialoge of Comfort (new ed.) ii. vii, in Wks. Sir T. More 1177/2 If so be..that they haue founde out so easye awaye to heauen, as to take no thought, but make mery,..and then lette Chrystes passion paye for all the scotte.
?1567 Merie Tales Master Skelton sig. Aiiiv Ise bay [= pay] for your skott to London.
1694 tr. E. Benoist Hist. Famous Edict of Nantes II. iii. 156 The Sum of Money that were offer'd them, made their Swords drop out of their Hands... The..Duke of Rohan paid the Scot, and got nothing but the Queens Indignation by it.
1729 P. Walkden Diary 4 July (1866) (modernized text) 29 I asked him what I owed him;..I gave him half-a-crown, but he gave me 6d. back... So we are clear of all the scots that I know of.
1860 R. W. Emerson Wealth in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 80 No system of clientship suits them; but every man must pay his scot.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Scot, an ale-house reckoning.
1879 M. Pattison Milton iii. 36 He paid his scot by reciting from memory some of his youthful Latin verses.
1907 C. Rook Switzerland x. 212 The man who cannot..shoulder a rifle, or take his part in the field, must pay his scot according to his means. All those..must pay..a special tax of six francs a head.
1989 P. O'Brian Thirteen-gun Salute iv. 98 I shall pay my scot with the greatest pleasure.
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