| 单词 | to put to nurse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put (out) to nurse b. to put (out) to nurse: to commit (a child) to the care of a nurse, esp. away from the child's home. Also figurative. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ society > education > upbringing > [verb (transitive)] > commit to the care of a nurse to set out1575 to put (out) to nurse1593 society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > settle (property) [verb (transitive)] > put property in trust to feoff (one person) to the use of1491 to put (out) to nurse1593 to make over1650 trustee1818 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)] > commit to care or custody of another > specifically a person > a child to put (out) to nurse1593 matriculate1768 1580 J. Lyly Euphues (new ed.) To Rdrs. sig. Bi Sending me into the countrey to nurse, where I tyred at a drye breast three yeares, and was at the last enforced to weane my selfe.] 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 72v At thy breasts (as at Cleopatras) Aspisses shall be put out to nurse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ii. 140 The elder of them being put to nurse, Was..stolne away. View more context for this quotation a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 18 Can Wedlock know so great a Curse, As putting Husbands out To nurse? 1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. vi. iv. 353 The usual way for rich people is to put forth their children to nurse. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 9 It was my good hap to be put to Nurse..to a Woman who was indeed Poor. 1755 Connoisseur No. 51. ⁋3 He was determined, that the babe..should be put out to nurse,—he hated the squall of children. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 42 [Johnson:] There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxii. 224 I should wery much like to see your mother-in-law born again. Wouldn't I put her out to nurse! 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. vi. 164 He would send for the baby; though I entreated him rather to put it out to nurse and pay for its maintenance. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xiv. 267 I put my love out to nurse, instead of weaning it. a1916 C. Gouldsbury Rhodesian Rhymes (1932) 88 This is the land where, in disgust, We put ambition out to nurse. a1972 C. Day Lewis Compl. Poems (1992) 81 What Protagoras missed, Needs be reborn hermaphrodite And put himself out to nurse With a syren and a sybil. < as lemmas |
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