单词 | to send to parliament |
释义 | > as lemmasto send (one or more members) to Parliament b. With specified destination considered as a place of residence, or connoting a sphere or kind of employment; e.g. in to send to school, college, etc. (sometimes with the notion of defraying the expense of the person's education); to send (one or more members) to Parliament (said of a constituency). ΘΚΠ society > education > [verb (transitive)] > put to education > send to school to set to lore (also to book, to school)a1225 to put to schoola1300 to send to school, college1531 school1577 society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > send (a person) > to a place as residence or sphere assign1413 send1531 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiii. sig. Fvv Where theyr parentes wyll nat aduenture to sende them farre out of theyr propre countrayes. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 434 The king..sent to the sea, Lord Edmond Holland Erle of Kent, as Chefetaine of that Crewe. 1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. i. ii. sig. Aiii* So that we are partely perswaded to send them vnto some vniuersity. 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. i. 119 Send her to Court, you send her to her Grave. 1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) II. 49 Heightsbury, a Town..sending two Members to Parliament. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 240 T' ensure the perseverance of his course,..Send him to college. View more context for this quotation 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 872 Then..send him not to school. No—guard him better. View more context for this quotation 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiv. 180 He was sent to sea to be got rid of. 1859 Habits Good Society 57 The haberdasher sits in Parliament, and sends his son to Oxford. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 835/1 The education [at Christ's Hospital] is chiefly commercial, but four boys are annually sent to the universities. < as lemmas |
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