| 单词 | to put to rout |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put to (†a, †the) rout Phrases to put to (†a, †the) rout. [Compare Middle French, French †mettre en route (c1560).] a. To rout (an enemy force); to defeat utterly. Cf. rout v.11 1a. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > put to flight to bring or do on (usually a, o) flighta1225 fleya1225 forchasea1400 ruse?a1425 skailc1425 dislodgea1450 to put to (the) flight (or upon the flight)1489 to turn to or into flight1526 discamp1566 flightc1571 dissipate1596 to put to (a, the) rout1596 dissipe1597 rout1600 disrout1626 derout1637 to beat off1650 to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1743 1596 [see sense 2a]. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ix. 321 The enemies..discomfited and put to the rout. 1648 Mercurius Psitacus No. 2. sig. A1 Fairfax thus will I sluce thy Gout, Nol thus Ile twinge thy nose, Thus do I put the Saints to rout, Though they in Barres me close. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 3 The Dragon, put to second rout, Came furious down. View more context for this quotation 1728 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. VI. xiii. 89 They debated whether they should venture to pass the River, at the risk of seeing their Rear-Guard put to rout. 1756 Gentleman's Diary 46 I am a Monster without doubt, That antient Sages put to rout. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives IV. 160 Against him Pompey sent Afranius, who put him to the route. 1802 E. Forster tr. Arabian Nights IV. 161 They instantly put them in disorder, and very soon to rout. 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. i. 36 The entrenchment was carried, and the Burmas were put to the rout. 1897 H. Hartwright Story House of Lancaster xii. 148 Next day..the tables were turned, when the French were put utterly to the rout and their commander slain. 1935 Rotarian Jan. 20/1 The famous armoured ship, the Monitor, which put the Merrimac to rout during the Civil War. 1995 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 59 432 Austria's defensive cordon in Bohemia crumbled and was put to rout. b. In extended use. To rout (a thing). Cf. rout v.11 2. ΚΠ 1651 N. Culpeper Semeiotica Uranica ii. xiii. 220 The Lord of the ascendent, nature, gets strength over the disease, and will at last put him to a totall rout. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 39 How would one look from his Majestick brow..and put to rout All her array. View more context for this quotation 1794 T. Holcroft Love's Frailties Prol. p. vi Wit, humour, character are put to rout! 1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician III. iii. viii. 183 Napoleon put to rout all these things when he inhabited the palace. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vii. 228 To baffle and put to rout their false dogmatic theology. 1938 Agric. Hist. 6 81 The cattle industry of Montana, though a heavy blow had been dealt it, was not put to rout. 1995 New Yorker 18 Sept. 64/1 Penicillin also had a devastating effect on the other major venereal scourge, gonorrhea, a single injection usually being sufficient to put it to rout. < as lemmas |
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