单词 | to smite to death |
释义 | > as lemmasto smite (a person, animal, etc.) to (the) death a. to smite (a person, animal, etc.) to (the) death: to kill (a person or animal), often with a sword or other weapon. Also figurative.Frequently with reference to biblical use.Cf. to beat (also stone, †slay, etc.) to death at death n. Phrases 1a(a), and to the death at death n. Phrases 2a(a). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike severely > so as to cause serious injury or death slayc893 to smite to deathc1175 smitec1275 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14677 Abraham..hof þe swerd..To smitenn itt [sc. Isaac] to dæde. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 4941 Þer he carf wiþ swerd and smot Mani to þe deþ. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iii. l. 322 Ne no man bere wepne, And what smyth þat ony smyteth [probably read smytheth; c1400 Trin. Cambr. B.15.17 smyþeþ] be smyte þerwith to dethe. 1592 A. Munday tr. L. T. A. Masque of League sig. Mv God smote to death three-score and ten men of the chiefest sort. 1679 J. Cave Serm. Jan. 30 25 He [sc. David] caused the poor Amalekite to be smitten to death for having a hand in his blood. 1765 L. Abbott Poems Var. Subj. 27 An hundred thousand at the first Essay He smote to Death. a1822 P. B. Shelley in Athenæum (1832) 8 Dec. 794/3 The abortion, with which she travaileth, Is Liberty, smitten to death. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxviii. 113 When those monster birds..his arrow Smote to the death. 1908 Times 5 Feb. 11/3 The kind, manly, friendly King..is smitten to death as he sits. 1932 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 5 Nov. 4/3 The Democrats..sword in hand, declared they would bring forth measures that would smite to the death all our economic troubles. 2015 Africa News (Nexis) 9 Jan. The same God that caused Herod to be smitten to death and eaten up by worms is still around. < as lemmas |
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