| 单词 | to sit on a person's right hand | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sit on (also at) a person's right hand  a.    to sit on (also at) a person's right hand and variants: to sit to the immediate right of a host, a position traditionally accorded to the guest of honour, or to the person next after the host in rank or authority; (hence) to occupy a position of particular favour or privilege. Cf. right-hand man n. (b) at  Compounds.Originally in or with direct allusion to Biblical passages, esp. Hebrews 1:3 and 1 Peter 3:22, and to the Creed in the Christian liturgy. ΚΠ c1225Riht hond [see sense  A. 2].							 a1250    Lofsong Louerde in  R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies 		(1868)	 1st Ser. Minor Creed 217  				Þer he sit o godes rithond feder al-mihti. a1333    in  C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. 		(1924)	 22 (MED)  				Þou sist in godes ryth hond in þy uaderes blisse. 1570    J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes 		(rev. ed.)	 II. 1612/2  				Christ shall sit..at the right hand of God, vnto the consumption of the world. 1653    Ld. Vaux tr.  A. Godeau Life St. Paul 310  				Jesus Christ having once offered the Host of His body, is seated at the right hand of God. 1716    Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 14 Sept. 		(1965)	 I. 266  				She order'd me a seat at her right hand. 1762    T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. xii. 251  				That wretched low-bred woman, who now sits at your right hand as associate of power and presumption. 1809    Visct. Valentia Voy. I. 100  				He led me to a small couch close to the purdah, and seated me on his right hand..between his mother and himself. 1856    J. Banks tr.  Callimachus Hymn to Apollo in  Wks. Hesiod, Callimachus, & Theognis 128  				Apollo will honour the choir, because it sings to his taste; for he is able, seeing that he sits at Jove's right hand. 1940    Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 71 334  				In Salutati's phrontistery Gorgias sits at the right hand of Socrates. 1977    N.Y. Mag. 19 Sept. 118/1  				Hamilton Jordan, who sits at Carter's right hand, ordered delivered up to his office a list of any and all federally funded programs. 2001    P. Gregory Other Boleyn Girl 		(2007)	 189  				There was no question now of who sat at the right hand of the king... She [sc. the queen] did not flaunt her return to favor. < as lemmas  | 
	
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