| 单词 | to wake watch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wake watch a. To stay awake for the purpose of watching or tending; to keep watch while others sleep, be on guard at night. Const. on, upon, over, for, against; also to (do something). Also with cognate object, to wake watch. Now only dialect, to sit up at night with a person, esp. one who is sick.In 16th cent. Sc. use wake and ward (see ward v.1) = ‘to keep watch and ward,’ as a duty incumbent on the freeman of a burgh. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > watch or keep guard [verb (intransitive)] > at night wakec825 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care or protect [verb (intransitive)] > sit up with sick person wake1865 α. β. c825 Vesp. Psalter cxxvi. 1 In vanum vigilant qui custodiunt eam, in idelnisse wæciað ða haldað hie.OE Beowulf 660 Waca wið wraþum!c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 31 Þe herdes þe wakeden ouer here oref.c1350 Leg. Rood 76/525 And seker men he sett to wake, So þat þai suld no harmes take.c1465 Eng. Chron. (Camden) 62 Alle the weyez about the said toun off Bury..were kept with gret multitude of peple of the cuntre, wakyng day and nyghte.1521 in J. D. Marwick Edinb. Guilds & Crafts (1909) 65 The communitie of the wobstaris walkis, wardis, extentis, and beris all other commoun chargis within this toune.1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. ix. 282 Na thing was done in þe nycht following Except onelie þe pepill walkit in all partis of þe ciete.1565 J. Hall Courte of Vertue 32 Watchmen, whiche wake al ye night.1580 in Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870) I. 99 All..to cum duell..within the burgh quhair they ar frie, hald stob and staik within the samyn, scatt, loitt, watche, walk and waird with the inhabitantis thairof.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 368 Let Eve..Here sleep below while thou to foresight wak'st . View more context for this quotation1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xii. 183 Only let One wake with me, to read to me.1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act I. iv. 28 She determined to wake by his Bed-side all Night.1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. in Archaeologia 17 162 Waite, and Wake, v. to sit up with a person all night, or to watch by a corpse.1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. x. 263 You promised to wake with me the night before my wedding.1865 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 7 84/1 ‘They have waked with him for several nights’, is a common expression in Lancashire.1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Wake, to watch with a sick person; to work by candlelight.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3752 Hirdess wokenn o þatt nahht. Þatt crist wass borenn onne. c1400 Rowland & Otuel 1187 Grete lordes riste toke, & nyghte wache full worthily wooke. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) iii. vii. 79 b And lyke a mother to bryng thee aslepe, I woke ful oft. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 141v By this gardyn is vnderstonde the yle. By the serpent wakyng, the subtyll geant commysid to kepe hit that allway wook at the paas. < as lemmas |
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