单词 | to take one's stand |
释义 | > as lemmasto take one's stand a. A person's standing place or position. Also figurative. Also in to take one's stand and †to take stand(poetic). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > where one takes up a position, residence, etc. space?a1400 standa1400 stance1532 settling1582 station1587 consistory1592 roosting place1643 pitch1699 standing place1736 terrain1832 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1694 Siþen efter alþernest hand þe meke beistes sal haue þair stand. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 249 Come now wyth me, and stond on ȝondyr stonde befor þe and loke downeward. 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iii. cxxv. sig. S2 Nay father since your fortune did attaine So hye a stand: I meane not to descend, Replyes the Prince. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. iv. 27 Por. Is Cæsar yet gone to the Capitoll? Sooth. Madam not yet, I go to take my stand, To see him passe. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 395 Then from his loftie stand on that high Tree Down he alights. View more context for this quotation 1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 6 Beneath the quiv'ring Shade..The patient Fisher takes his silent Stand. 1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. iv. 114 He saw from his lofty stand all the dumb show of gallantry. 1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche i. xxiii. 10 She passed, and taking stand Upon its taper horn of furthest land, Looked left and right. 1931 M. A. Barnes Westward Passage vi. 215 Little Olivia was looking at her mother very steadily from her stand near the door. < as lemmas |
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