单词 | to smite off |
释义 | > as lemmasto smite off to smite off transitive. To cut off (a person's head, hands, etc.) with a sword or other weapon. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > strike off with a blow to smite offa1225 latch1535 wipe1596 to knock offa1616 slat1828 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off > with a sweeping stroke to smite offa1225 off-swipc1275 to strike offc1485 wipe1596 slash1689 to sweep off1707 a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 29 Al swa eða þu mihtest..smiten of þin aȝen heaueð and gan eft to þin aȝene liche. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13999 (MED) Ich igrap mi sweord leofe..and smæt of Modred is hafd. a1300 Passion our Lord l. 198 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 43 Seynte peter..smot of Malkes ere. a1350 St. Juliana (Ashm.) (1957) 86 Com uorþ..my manquellare..And smyt of hire heued. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 328 Dardan for his lance doun to þe erth went & smote his hede of. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1817 Men myghte smyte of hire arm or hed. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xiv. 222 He and frelent were besy to smyte of his heed. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 674 He..commaunded his heade there to be smitten off. a1618 W. Raleigh Life & Death Mahomet (1637) 203 With his own hands cut his throat and smoat off his head. 1682 W. Gough Londinum Triumphans 196 They..having him in their hands smote off his Head. 1717 J. Hughes tr. Suetonius Lives XII. Cæsars II. 303 Chærea..smote off his Jaw at a blow. 1799 E. Du Bois Fairy of Misfortune iv. 20 He..smote off the arm of a soldier. 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro II. vii. 47 When the fight was lost and his own two hands smitten off, [he] seized two chests of gold with his bloody stumps. 1860 Dial Apr. 236 He..seized the sword and smote off Carle's head. 1900 G. Murray Andromache iii. 112 Smite off his feet that he shall not pursue, and his hands that he may never lay hold of me! 1998 Analecta Hibernica No. 37. 204 Among his captors was a knave of Ireland,..who took a rusty sword and smote off his head with half a dozen strokes. < as lemmas |
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