| 单词 | to sway it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sway it 10. intransitive (occasionally to sway it.) To rule; to hold sway. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or govern [verb (intransitive)] wieldOE rixlec1175 rulea1382 governa1393 to have in (a person's) governinga1400 sway?1566 emperize1601 regularize1623 ?1566 J. Phillip Commodye Pacient & Meeke Grissill sig. A.ii Let Grissills Pacience swaye in you. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. C3 Yours whilst life swayeth in mine inward parts. 1615 S. Rowlands Melancholie Knight 23 For shee's a Gentlewoman (though I say it) That doth deserue to domineere and sway it. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. vi. 21 A gentler Heart did neuer sway in Court. View more context for this quotation 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 209 Those evill and apostate spirits, which doe now sway so much in the world. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 376 There let him still Victor sway, As Battel hath adjudg'd. View more context for this quotation 1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 114 A tyrant is he..who swayes for his own onely pleasure. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 401 Lawless feasters in thy palace sway. 1853 J. Hunt Spir. Songs, ‘Let all the world rejoice’ ii He rules by sea and land, O'er boundless realms he sways. 1886 A. T. Pierson Crisis of Missions 117 Turkey..still sways over one million square miles. < as lemmas |
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