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单词 to take prisoner
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to take (a person) prisoner
a. to take (a person) prisoner: to seize and hold (a person) as a prisoner, esp. in war.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > deprive of liberty by restraint [verb (transitive)] > take captive
takeOE
caitive1382
seizea1400
captivec1430
to take (a person) prisonera1475
to take captive1535
overthrallc1540
captivatea1575
stay1590
encaptive1592
capture1796
to hold captive1884
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 130 (MED) The Erlis..rose ayenest thair kynge..and toke hym and his sonne prisoners in the ffelde.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Bijv The gouernour..so by crafte circumuented him, that he toke him priesoner, and commaunded him to be hanged on the sayle yarde of the shyp.
1581 T. Lupton Persuasion from Papistrie 79 For the Emperour thought belike, that it was as lawful for him to take the Pope prisoner, as to put his owne father out of his kingdome.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. iii. 36 In Parthia did I take thee Prisoner, And then I swore thee, sauing of thy life, That whatsoeuer I did bid thee do, Thou should'st attempt it. View more context for this quotation
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 200 The Infernal Conjurer Pursu'd, and took me Prisoner.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. v. lxxvi. 347 Ali was taken prisoner and blinded.
1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 336 He was taken prisoner by the Infidels at Damietta.
1827 Q. Rev. 35 87 On the overthrow of his party he was taken prisoner, and carded to death.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iii. xv. 360 Montfort was taken prisoner; his countess, one of the virago heroines of the time, was besieged in Hennebon.
1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 311 The confusion, terror, and indignation of the surprised gives little scope or will to take prisoners those of the beaten surprisers whom it is impossible to shoot.
1968 V. Ehrenberg From Solon to Socrates v. 130 The Naxians took to the hills, but a few were taken prisoner.
2002 E. J. Hess Lee's Tar Heels 40 The Tar Heel general was ashamed of having been taken prisoner.
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