| 单词 | to set light |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto set (a person or thing) (at) light ΚΠ c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1250 Þe prys & þe prowes þat pleseȝ al oþer, If I hit lakked oþer set at lyȝt, hit were littel daynte. 1547 Certain Serm. or Homilies Fear Death ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i. 98 Let us not set at light the chastising of the Lord. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 637 Be Christ, said the Coilȝear, I set that bot licht. 1612 Sir H. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 244 My Lord of Exeter chafes; I tell them we set it as light. 1633 G. Herbert Sacrifice in Temple xx Herod and all his bands do set me light. 1787 F. Grose Superstitions 24 in Provinc. Gloss. She told him of their design; but he set them at light: he bragged that he could beat two of them himself. < as lemmas |
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