单词 | to strike off or out of |
释义 | > as lemmasto strike (a name, a person) off or (now rarely) out of a. To cancel or expunge with or as with the stroke of a pen. Const. from, off, out (of), rarely †away; also (U.S.) without const., esp. in legal contexts, and colloquial, in the imperative, annulling or reversing what the speaker has just said. Also to strike (a name, a person) off or (now rarely) out of a list. Cf. to strike off, to strike out, to strike through at Phrasal verbs.The past participle form stricken is common in the legal examples of this sense.to be struck off the rolls: see roll n.1 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > erase by marking strikec1386 to rub offa1425 cancelc1440 streakc1440 cross1483 outstrike1487 line1530 to strike out1530 dash1549 to strike off1597 cancellate1664 damask1673 score1687 to run through1817 overscore1834 blue-pencil1883 stroke1885 caviar1890 to stencil out1891 to strike through1898 ex1935 x1942 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > with violence > strike off off-smitec1275 strikec1320 ofgreetc1330 swapa1375 strikec1386 c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 66 Thanne wolde he seye, freend, I shal for thy sake Do striken hire out of oure lettres blake. 1549 J. Olde tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Eph. 6 Christ..stroke away al the difference of circumcised, and not circumcised. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 57 That thou didst loue her, strikes some scores away From the great compt. 1746 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 15 Apr. Vernon is struck off the list of admirals. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. ix. 166 O! could I strike from my memory all former scenes. 1832 G. S. Yerger Rep. Supreme Court Tennessee 1 229 That an attorney may be stricken from the roll for good cause, none can doubt. 1839 W. M. Thackeray Fatal Boots Jan. He has struck Thomas out of his will. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 36 His name was struck out of the list of privy councillors. 1873 P. V. Smith Hist. Eng. Inst. iii. viii. 214 A person tried for his life might..challenge and strike off the panel as many as thirty-five. 1883 M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed ii The first person who flouts her shall be struck off my visiting list. 1891 Field 7 Nov. 701/3 [List of] Horses struck out of their engagements. 1906 Federal Reporter (1907) 147 451 All of the testimony given by the witness..is withdrawn and stricken out of this case. 1917 Southwestern Reporter 189 661/1 No further steps..were taken in the case until the February term, 1904, of the Magoffin circuit court, when it was stricken from the docket. 1938 Congress. Rec. 24 May 7405/2 That the Committee do..report the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the enacting clause be stricken out. 1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 19 July 4/2 The Convention..voted 132 to 49, to strike that section from the Constitution. < as lemmas |
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