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单词 to take a person tardy
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to 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.
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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.
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