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单词 to stand at gaze
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to stand at (†a, the) gaze
b. at gaze, †at a or the gaze; said of a deer (now chiefly Heraldry: see quot. 1828-40), also of persons: in the attitude of gazing, esp. in wonder, expectancy, bewilderment, etc. So in to stand at (a, the) gaze, †to set at the gaze, etc. †to hold at gaze: to hold fascinated. Also with other prepositions as †in a gaze, gaze on, upon the gaze; †to put to the gaze: to puzzle, nonplus. See also agaze adv.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adverb] > staring or gazing
agazec1350
with all the eyes in one's head1483
gazingly1564
at a or the gaze1578
staringly1580
on (also upon) the stare1709
in a gazea1715
upon the gaze1817
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)]
marvela1425
esmarvel1477
amaze?1533
wondera1561
bewondera1586
to hold at gaze1594
admire1598
wonder-maze1603
astonish1611
thunderstrike1613
surprise1655
to astonish the natives1801
emmarvel1834
zap1967
mind-blow1970
gobsmack1987
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > perplex, nonplus [phrase]
to bring (drive, or put) to one's wit's end1377
to cast (also throw) a mist before a person's eyes?a1475
to set (also run) on ground1600
to make butter and cheese of1642
to put to the gaze1646
philogrobolized in one's brains1653
to strike all of (on) a heap1711
to blow, cast, throw stour in one's eyes1823
knot1860
to give (one) furiously to think1910
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 23 I haue read..that the whole heard of Deare stande at the gaze, if they smell a sweete apple.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. A4 Whose eye holds wanton Venus at a gaze.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 309 A sheep-heard..strucken with the majestie of the man, stood at gaze vpon him.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 137 Especially as many as were English: who were at a gaze looking strange one upon another.
1646 Sir C. Cavendish Let. to Pell in R. Vaughan Protect. Cromwell (1838) II. 374 The business is too difficult for me to judge of, for it puts our learned men here to the gaze.
a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 140 I had still a likelyhood in gaze.
1680 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Epist. Pref. sig. a2 Pindar is generally known to be a dark writer, to want Connexion..to soar out of sight, and leave his Reader at a Gaze.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ix. 162 This Vapor..had so long set the Nations at a Gaze.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 75 And when the time of setting out the fleet came on, all were in a gaze whither it was to go.
1749 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Spirit Patriotism 22 All indifferent men stood as it were at a gaze.
1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation iv. 140 Where..the earnest intelligent contemplation of God is the constant exercise, there is nothing..that can so set his adoring myriads upon the gaze, as some new..evolution of the character of God.
1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. (at cited word) The hart, stag, buck, or hind, when borne in coat-armour, looking affrontée or full-faced, is said to be at gaze..but all other beasts in this attitude are called guardant.
1859 J. White Hist. France (1860) 20 On this occasion all Europe was on the gaze.
1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xix. §5. 310 Vert, three Harts at gaze or.
1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ II. lxi. 407 The great body of the people seem to have stood silently at gaze.
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