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单词 to smite fire
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to smite fire
P4. to smite fire: to produce fire, esp. by striking a flint or other stone. In later use only with from. Cf. to strike fire at strike v. 30a(a), slay v.1 2. Obsolete (rare in later use).
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > produce by striking > specific fire or sparks
to smite firec1300
strike?c1450
c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) l. 644 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 237 He brouȝte a fuyr-Ire ant a ston, Þare-with to smite me fuyr.
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 29v Fugillo, smyte fure.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. l. 2503 Piroides..Fro flyntes smet fir daryng in the roote.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 298 Whan þe nyȝt com, þe maide..smot fire at a stone.
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke ii. xii. f. lix The shepardes diuised to smyte fyre by rubbyng of two peces of wood together.
1616 B. Jonson Speeches at Prince Henries Barriers 43 in Wks. I When in a day of honour fire was smit.
1671 J. Webster Metallographia vii. 115 He nameth four of other colours, forth of which fire is smitten.
1777 S. J. Pratt Trav. for Heart II. 129 They wished the friar in Heaven, for having smitten fire from the flint.
1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia iv. 97 Men Perished in winter-winds till one smote fire From flint-stones coldly hiding what they held.
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