| 单词 | to touch or lay hands on the ark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto touch or lay hands on the ark b. figurative, as in phrases, to touch or lay hands on the ark: to interfere with, treat irreverently, what is held to be sacred; (in reference to 2 Samuel vi. 6.) Applied to something which protects or enshrines a precious possession. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > have or show no reverence [verb (intransitive)] to touch or lay hands on the ark1842 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 5 The living arke of the holy Ghost. 1826 E. Everett Address at Charlestown 39 They [Adams and Jefferson] took up the ark of her [their country's] liberties with pure hands, and bore it through in triumph. 1842 H. Rogers Introd. Burke's Wks. 83 Laying irreverent hands on the ark of the constitution. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation §1. 7 The House of Commons only touched the ark of our property with half a heart. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xxiii. 323 The functions which it [the Supreme Court] discharges in guarding the ark of the Constitution. < as lemmas |
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