| 单词 | to set at liberty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto set at liberty (d) to set at liberty: to set free, to liberate. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from confinement unbindc950 to let freec1000 aletOE to let out1154 loosea1225 slakec1374 loosen1382 to let goc1384 releasec1384 unloosec1400 unlockc1410 dissolvec1420 relievec1450 unloosen?a1475 to set at liberty1509 enlargea1513 to let at large1525 to let loose1530 to turn loose?1566 enfranchise1569 to turn up1573 enfranch1581 unkennel1589 unwind1596 to cast loosec1600 disimmure1611 disimprison1611 unhamper1620 to let abroad1633 unfold1633 disencloister1652 disencage1654 discagea1657 disincarcerate1665 eliminate1745 unspherea1806 unmew1818 unbottle1821 uncage1837 unbag1854 bust1921 1509 J. Fisher Serm. Henry VIJ (de Worde) sig. B.ijv Our lord taketh into his custodye the lytell & humble persones. I was humbled & he set me at lyberte. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke iv. f. lxxixv Frely to sett att liberte them that are brused. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 136/2 If she would apply to his request, she shoulde be..set at liberty. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 323 He..confessed hee would vndertake for the Wolfe, if they would set him at liberty. a1649 W. Drummond Hist. Scotl. (1655) 102 He was inconstant..in setting at liberty the man who would prove his Executioner. 1710 I. Newton & J. Ellis Let. Sept. in I. Newton Corr. (1975) V. 69 She was again committed to prison & convicted..& was set at liberty upon giving security to transport herself. 1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 253 Its Acid being set at liberty. 1803 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 163 The maniac appears perfectly composed..; but, if set at liberty, immediately becomes furious. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 20 Feb. 8/2 The Battersea colombophile, whose pigeons..are set at liberty and allowed to fly home. 1918 E. J. Dillon Eclipse of Russia x. 178 He showed them his passe-partout and they set him at liberty at once. 1968 Americas 24 387 He demanded that Iglesias be set at liberty. 1992 J. M. Kelly Short Hist. Western Legal Theory iii. 107 The ninth-century abbot Smaragdus..admonishes Christians to set their slaves at liberty. to set at liberty to set at ease, at rest, to rest, †in or at peace; †to set at debate, †to set at difference, †to set at a jar, †to set at jars, to set at odds, to set at one, to set at variance, †to set at square, to set at war, to set by the ears, †to set in sunder; to set agog, †to set at gaze, to set astray; to set aglow, to set afire, to set on fire (see fire n. and int. Phrases 2j(b)), to set aflame, to set in flame(s, etc.; to set in array, to set in order, to set in readiness, to set to rights; to set †in effray, †to set on fear; to set at large, to set at leisure, to set at liberty; to set on edge; to set in or on a roar; to set in action, to set in motion, to set in operation; to set at bay, to set at fault, †to set in press, †to set in stay; to set at contempt, to set at defiance; etc.: see also the nouns and adverbs. Also, to set afoot or on foot (see afoot adv. 3, foot n. and int. Phrases 3a(c)).extracted from setv.1< as lemmas |
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