| 单词 | to speech |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto (one's) speech b. With possessive pronoun, or the and genitive: The opportunity of speaking or conversing with a person; an audience or interview with one. In phrases to come to speech, be admitted to speech, bring to speech, to (one's) speech. Now archaic or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > audience or opportunity speechc900 audience1514 c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. i. xxv. 58 Se cyning..het Agustinum mid his geferum þider to his spræce cuman. a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1093 Ne mihte he beon weorðe..ure cynges spæce. 1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1123 Ær hi mihte cumen to þes papes spræce. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 16 Sche is come to lond and to þe speche of hir son. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxxiiijv Being admitted to his speache aboute the begynnynge of December. 1595 W. Raleigh Discov. Guiana 2 In all that time we came not to the speach of any Indian or Spaniard. 1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes ii. 169 I will bring you to the speech of her whom it represents. 1690 G. Farewell Def. Apr. in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 187 He could never obtaine a releasement, or by any meanes come to the speech of any of their Magistrates. 1734 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 548 They were admitted after some time to the Speech of the Prisoners. 1778 Hist. Eliza Warwick II. 49 Sir Charles's valet..soon brought her to the speech of him. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 344 He found the means of getting to the speech of me in private. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. iii. 80 To the speech of the King you will not come so easily, unless you..meet him alone. < as lemmas |
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