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单词 to usher in
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to usher in
7. to usher in (see also 1).
a. To bring in (a banquet, meat, etc.) with ceremony.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [verb (transitive)]
servec1275
spenda1375
serve1381
to serve forth1381
ministerc1400
messa1425
sewc1440
to serve ina1450
to serve upc1475
asservec1500
dish1587
appose1593
to usher in1613
send1662
to hand round1692
to serve away1709
hand1851
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > bring in > formally
usher1596
to usher in1613
introduce1685
1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age ii. sig. C4 Vsher me in a costly banquet straight To entertaine my Lord.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 94 The Captain's Bell calls him to usher in the Apple Dumplins.
1829 S. H. Cassan Lives Bishops of Bath & Wells 262 The meat was ushered in.
b. To inaugurate or bring in (a period of time).
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the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)] > inaugurate > an era or period of time
to usher in1609
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxxii. sig. H4v That full Starre that vshers in the Eauen. View more context for this quotation
1656 S. Winter Serm. 147 That so he might usher in the eternitie of the world.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 276 The Morning being ushered in with..Music.
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 177 If chance..A tempest usher in the dreaded morn.
1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §306 The year 1762 was ushered in with stormy weather.
1827 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. viii. 121 The day was ‘ushered in’, as the newspapers say, by the firing of cannon.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxx. 98 Dim dawn,..Who usherest in the dolorous hour With thy quick tears.
1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 298 The French Revolution ushered in a new era of taste.
c. = sense 2d.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)]
forecomea1300
precede?a1425
fore-run1590
usher1607
eve1638
to usher in1641
surmounta1647
antevene1655
antedate1664
antecedea1676
anticipate1855
precourse1888
predate1889
precursea1892
1641 H. Maisterson Serm. 18 An anteambulo to usher in a thousand pains.
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. ix. 414 The Lord, who was to be usher'd in by Elijah the Prophet.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 44 Flowers..appear only to usher in the Fruit, or the Seed; afterwards they fade.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 363. ¶18 That vision of Lewdness and Luxury, which ushers in the Flood.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 89 Every Fast portended some Villany, as still a Famine ushers in a Plague.
a1721 M. Prior Many Daughters have done Well 10 How welcome did that light appear Which usher'd in a form all Heav'nly fair.
d. To mark the introduction, beginning, or occurrence of (an event, etc.); to introduce.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)] > inaugurate
auspicate1611
augurate1624
to usher in1646
inaugurate1755
augur1865
1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 8 They generally usher in uproares in the State.
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico vii. 49 These punishments seemed only to usher in the Death of the two Counts.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiv. 394 A convenient place to usher in a Commerce with the Neighbouring Country.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 23 But oh th' important budget! usher'd in With..heart-shaking music.
1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 231 Increased heats..already described as ushering in the hæmorrhage.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. x. 106 The symptoms..bear a very strong analogy to those which usher in typhus.
1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 738 The event of 1018..was ushered in by a comet.
e. = sense 4.
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the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > introduce
premit?c1425
premisec1450
infera1529
preamble1628
usher1635
to usher in1662
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vi. §5 Their deliverance by Cyrus..he ushers..in with this preface that [etc.].
1673 True Notion Worship of God 8 These Sacrifices not only accompanying their Confessions..; but their Hymns and Doxologies also,..to usher them in with more acceptance.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 222 He would have usher'd the Word in with some kind of introduction.
1757 T. Gray Let. 28 Sept. in Corr. (1971) II. 528 All that ushers in the incantation from ‘Try we yet..’, I am delighted with.
a1763 W. King Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1819) 154 He was..so unfortunate as to usher in his criticisms with [etc.].
1814 T. Chalmers Evid. Christian Revel. ii. ii The quotation is..ushered in by the general words, ‘As it is written’.
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