| 单词 | to take witness of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take witness by (also of) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > follow a person as an example followOE suec1300 counterfeitc1374 to take witness by (also of)c1400 take1544 borrow1549 personate1612 c1400 Anturs Arth. 165 (Thornton) Thus am I lyke to Lucefere, takis witnes by mee. c1400 Anturs Arth. 273 (Thornton) Takes witnes by Fraunce. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 596 in Poems (1981) 27 Tak witnes of the feyndis infernall, Quhilk houndit doun wes fra that heuinlie hall To hellis hole. to take witness of ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > call to witness to take witness of1390 vouchc1412 record1590 attest1609 to swear downa1616 appeal1645 to take up1821 invoke1851 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 66 For this witnesse I take of god, that my corage Hath ben mor siek than my visage. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 22583 (MED) I take witnes of saint austine, þat tellis how þis werlde sal fine. a1500 in J. O. Halliwell Nugæ Poeticæ (1844) 38 I take wyttenesse of Davyd kyng and at Salomon the wyse, That a woman for a litulle thyng ofte change hir servyse. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxvii. sig. Ff6 I take witnes of the gods (who neuer leaue periuries vnpunished) that I often cried out against their impudency. < as lemmas |
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