单词 | to speak again |
释义 | > as lemmasto speak again(st) —— to speak again(st) —— (see again prep. 6a and against prep. 2). ΚΠ c1000 Ælfric Numbers xxi. 7 We singodon swiðe, for þan þe we swa spræcon ongean god & þe. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 678 Þar muþ shal speke ayeyn horte. 1388 J. Wyclif Psalms xlix. 20 Thou sittynge spakist aȝens thi brother. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 2928 Þer aȝeyn durst he not speke. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 22 I speake not agaynst greate candelles, but agaynst lytle candels. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 398 Sith that both charge and danger Speakes gainst so great a number. View more context for this quotation 1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. (at cited word) If he go on to speak lavishly against me. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 148 On the other side Hortensia spoke against the tax. 1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert xxvi. 339 Some regretted..that they spoke against her as an interloper. < as lemmas |
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