| 单词 | to send cards |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto send cards a. To dispatch (a message, letter, telegram, etc.) by messenger, post, or other means of communication. So to send cards (of invitation). ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > message > send a message or messenger [verb (transitive)] sendc897 to send (a person) wordc1275 to send aboutc1330 present1536 message1582 messenger1891 page1904 society > leisure > social event > hospitality > invitation > send invitations [verb (intransitive)] to send cards1770 c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxii. 213 Ne ðeah eow hwelc ærendgewrit cume, suelce hit from us send sie. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2851 Þatt drihhtin haffde sennd hiss word. Till hire. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 309 Ȝe ne schule sende lettres..bute lealle [read leaue]. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 972 (rubric) How dindimus sendyd an answere to alixandre by letter. a1440 Sir Degrev. 121 Hys steward hadd a lettre y-sent. c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xiv. 143 Þat all supplicacions wich shalbe made to þe kynge..be sende to the same counsell. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. iv. (heading) Kyng Latyne till Eneas send message For peax. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 86 The Embassador..sent intelligence of the same into England. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 13 Apr. (1948) I. 242 I sent my excuses, adorned with about thirty compliments, and got off as fast as I could. 1770 S. Foote Lame Lover ii. 49 She very well knows that I have not sent cards but twice the whole season. 1842 W. C. Taylor Student's Man. Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) xvii. §5. 519 Heliogabalus being thus victorious, sent intelligence of his success..to the senate. 1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) IV. xii. xi I sent a telegram. 1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert xviii. 225 I sent him a line..just to say that I had succeeded in finding you. < as lemmas |
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