单词 | to play one's pageant |
释义 | > as lemmasto play one's pageant ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave, conduct, or bear oneself [verb (intransitive)] > behave or make as though to find one's countenanceOE to make (a) countenancec1380 to play one's pageanta1425 to play (also act) a (also one's) part1540 the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > assumption of behaviour or attitudes > part played or assumed by a person personc1230 pageanta1425 partc1450 cue1581 role1606 figurea1616 mantle1658 assumption1871 a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 129 (MED) Þes pagyn playen þei þat hiden þe treuþe of Goddis lawe. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 759 Yondyr rydyth a knyght that playith his pageauntes. a1545 Deth Edwarde IV in J. Skelton Certayne Bks. (c1563) 85 I haue pleyd my pageyond, now am I past. 1591–2 Rob Stene's Dream (1836) 17 Ȝe his jugling can not see..Quhill he haif plaid his padȝeane weill. 1848 D. Greenwell Dream of Poet's Youth in Poems 2 Sore task, again to play the pageant through, And brace these wearied sinews to the fray. 1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic lxiii We must play the pageant out. < as lemmas |
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