| 单词 | to take treaty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take treaty a. transitive. To arrange, agree upon (a fight, truce, alliance, etc.); to make (peace). Now chiefly in to take treaty. [Compare Old French, Middle French prendre treve (13th cent.).] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement with [verb (transitive)] > make conclude or seal (an agreement) binda1300 smitec1330 takec1330 ratify1357 knitc1400 enter1418 obligea1522 agree1523 conclude1523 strike1544 swap1590 celebrate1592 rate?1611 to strike up1646 form1736 firm1970 c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) l. 865 (MED) Þan was atvix hem take þe fiȝt & sett þe day a fourtenniȝt. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 8474 (MED) It was seyde to the Emperoure..How ffight was taken hem be-twene. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 96 Quhill trewis at the last tuk thai. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 333 With thair consent Wallace this pes has tayn,..till x moneth war gayn. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxxiii. 48 So yt they wolde take no peace, nor truse, with ye kyng of Englande. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 139 The Troiens to the tenttes tristy men send ffor a treu to be tan. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xlvii. sig. D2v Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is tooke . View more context for this quotation 1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. v. 194 Having taken a Truce with his Enemy, he would not be the first should break it. a1724 D. Manley in A. Pope Lit. Corr. (1735) III. 65 Methinks it is unreasonable to impose the continued Slavery of Writing: I assure you, I shall take Truce with it till at my Journey's End. 1875 A. C. Swinburne Songs of Two Nations 65 They took truce with tyrants and grew tame. 1885 C. P. Mulvany Hist. North-west Rebellion xv. 118 Big Bear was the last to take treaty. 1908 R. A. S. Macalister tr. Story of Eagle-boy in Two Irish Arthurian Romances 149 When the vagabonds saw that they had no chance of slaughtering the flesh for their supper, they took a truce of combat till the morning. 1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning vi. 107 For the most part, the Cree leaders had refused to take treaty. < as lemmas |
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