单词 | to take nim) to wife |
释义 | > as lemmasto take (in early use (i-)nim) to wife b. to take (in early use (i-)nim) to wife: to marry (a woman). Now archaic. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Laud) Pref. 76 On anginne þisere worulde nam se broþer hys swuster to wife. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1100 Se cyng genam Mahalde him to wife. ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 He toc hire to wiue. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2764 To wife in lage he hire nam. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxi. 7 A strumpet & foule hoordam ȝe shollen not take to wife. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. xiii. 308 He..spousiþ hire wiþ a ring and takeþ hire to wif. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xxi. 14 No wedowe, ner deuorsed, ner defyled..but a virgin of his awne people shal he take to wife. 1591 (?a1425) Annunciation & Nativity (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 103 (MED) God, lett never an [MS and] ould man take to wife a yonge woman. 1648 M. Prideaux & J. Prideaux Easy & Compend. Introd. Hist. 216 He took to Wife Eudocia, the Daughter of one Leontius a Philosopher. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 80. ⁋3 She..was taken to Wife by a Gentleman. 1797 J. Wentworth Compl. Syst. Pleading II. 489 He the said defendant would intermarry with and take to wife her the said plaintiff, within the space of one month. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 231 James had..taken to wife the princess Mary of Modena. 1907 C. Hill-Tout Brit. N. Amer., Far West x. 182 Early marriages were..the custom, the girls being often barely pubescent when taken to wife. 1962 J. Dillenberger Martin Luther p. xxiv It is common knowledge that..Luther took to wife one of the nuns who apparently would settle for nothing less than Luther himself. 2009 K. Whitfield In Great Waters iv. 40 The Doge of Venice, Oberlerio, took to wife a Frankish bride. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。