单词 | to take a person tardy |
释义 | > as lemmasto take (also rarely catch, find) a person tardy a. to take (also rarely catch, find) a person tardy: to overtake (? originally on account of slowness of advance); to surprise; to come upon unprepared or unawares; hence, to detect, ‘catch’ in a crime, fault, error, etc.: often merely synonymous with take v. 6a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > surprise, astonish [verb (transitive)] > take by surprise oppressa1382 susprisea1400 swikec1400 supprisec1405 catchc1425 to take (a person) at advantage(s)1523 to take (also rarely catch, find) a person tardy1530 to take tarde1547 to take (a person) short1553 to catch (also take) (a person) nappinga1576 preoccupate1582 surprise?1592 overcomea1616 to take (or catch)‥unawaresa1616 to take at a surprise1691 to catch (also take) on the hop1868 to catch (a person) bending1910 wrong-foot1957 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 554/1 at Forage As we went a foragynge the laste daye, we were almoste taken tardy of a bande of horse men. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 253 He tooke her tardie with a plaine lye. 1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 725 I haue taken him tardye alreadie in falsifying the scripture. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. i. 51 Be not tane tardie, by vnwise delaie. View more context for this quotation 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 390 So shal the comming of the sonne of man to iudgement, take the world tardie, and unprepared. 1620 S. Rowlands Night-raven 16 A Drunkard, (whom the cup did tardy catch). 1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 94 Who, being found tardy, said he was troubled with a Spirit. 1677 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1852) II. 499 Pawbequenuck..being found tardy of inticeing the surrenderers to depart from the English..was sent to prison. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 306 To sing morning hymns..from which exercise this angel must not be taken tardy, much less be absent. < as lemmas |
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