单词 | to tell or count one's beads |
释义 | > as lemmasto tell or count one's beads b. to tell or count one's beads: to say one's prayers. to pray without one's beads: to be ‘out of one's reckoning’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > pray [verb (intransitive)] i-bid971 bidc1175 ure?c1225 prayc1300 to bid a beada1325 to say one's beadsa1325 tellc1450 to tell or count one's beads1641 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > mistake [phrase] to miss the cushiona1529 to get, have, or take the (or a) wrong (or right) sow by the ear1546 to pray without one's beads1641 to have the wrong end of the stick?1793 to bark up the wrong tree1832 the boot (is) on the wrong leg or foot1834 to have another think coming1896 you have another guess coming1935 to be off the beam1941 blow1943 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 188 Telling the panes of glasse, as fast as a Papist doth his Beads. 1656 F. Osborne Disc. Machiavell in Polit. Reflect. Govt. Turks 129 In which he prayed without his Beads, being so farre out [printed ont], in the account, as that, [etc.]. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xvii. 123 Cross himself;—tell his beads;—be a good Catholick. 1792 J. Barlow Conspiracy of Kings 78 He counts his beads, and spends his holy zeal. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Christabel ii. 28 The sacristan..Five and forty beads must tell. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. i. 53 Five hundred have I told upon these beads. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xvii. 205 Counting beads and making pilgrimages. < as lemmas |
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