单词 | to seek again(s |
释义 | > as lemmasto seek again(s a. To approach with hostile intention; to advance against, set on, attack, assail. Also in indirect passive. Similarly, to seek again(s (= against). (Cf. sense 6) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > advance to attack seekc825 to seek again(sc1230 pursue?a1425 seek1487 visitc1515 coast1531 to make upon ——1542 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > make hostile approach to runOE to seek on (also upon)c1230 pursuec1300 yerna1400 seek1487 visitc1515 coast1531 accost1597 to come at ——1601 to make against ——1628 to make at ——1637 tilt1796 rush1823 to come for ——1870 to move in1941 bum-rush1988 c1230 Hali Meid. 22 Leccherie anan riht greideð hire wið þet to weorrin o þi meiðhad, & secheð erst upon hire, nebbe to nebbe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4206 Herigal him soðte on. mid hehære strengðe. c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 196 And somtyme be we suffred for to seke Vp-on a man, and doon his soule vnreste. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 190 And he with pouer goth to seke Ayein the Scottes forto fonde the werre which he tok on honde. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4411 Was neuer don to leuedi mar Scam..þan..Ioseph soght [Gött. sohut] on me in bour. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 1735 For þou has samed..a selly nounbre..to seke vs agaynes. c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 84 My lord the Sowdon vpon me soght In grete wrathe. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iii. xiii. 115 He is..ful lothe to fyghte with ony man but yf he be sore souȝt on. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 304 Undyr my seylle I sall be bound to the For Inglismen that thai sall do him nocht, Nor to no Scottis, les it be on thaim socht. a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 3311 One thar fois ful fersly thai soght. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xlv. 150 Better it were for vs to seke batayle then to be sought on. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 341 Alcibiades..so came home highly welcomed, although thei had by necessitee been forced to seeke vpon hym. < as lemmas |
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