单词 | to take one's spring from |
释义 | > as lemmasto take one's spring from (also out of) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate or be a source of [verb (transitive)] > derive, come from, or originate in fet1393 to take one's spring from (also out of)c1440 to come out of ——1481 extract1490 deduct1530 fetch1552 desume1564 deduce1565 father1577 derive1600 traduce1615 raisea1631 originate1653 to be sourced in1941 c1440 (c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Rosenbach 1084/1) (1940) Prol. l. 49 Spryng [1542 Mount Vesulus..where as the Poo, out of a wel smal Taketh hys fyrst spring and hys sours; c1470 Coll. Phys. spryng, c1405 Hengwrt spryngyng]. 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde ii. f. 3 Diuerse nauigable Riuers that bringeth greate riches, as one named Malue..another yet named Sala, taking his spring in Mountayne Dure. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xv. 129 The riuer of Salef, which takes her spring from [Fr. prend sa source du] the mount of Taur. 1608 B. Jonson Masque of Blacknesse in Characters Two Royall Masques A3v This riuer taketh spring out of a certain Lake, east-ward. 1657 J. Tombes Anti-pædobaptism: 3rd Pt. lxxxvii. 752 Our present distractions cannot with any shew of truth be said to take their spring from Anabaptism. 1729 Thoughts True Brit. conc. Gibraltar 54 Within 15 Miles of the Place where the River Duero takes its Spring. 1760 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XV. xvi. iv. i. 36 Both these sides are bounded by the Nile, which, taking its spring at near the middle distance between them,..surrounds, and as it were intrenches it every way. 1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism v. 222 The spiritual power..taking its spring from Christianity. 1845 New Monthly Mag. & Humorist Apr. 574 These early volumes..taking their spring out of the reeking fires of the revolution. < as lemmas |
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