单词 | under colour of |
释义 | > as lemmasunder (the) colour of c. under (the) colour of: under pretext or pretence of; under the mask or alleged authority of. Now archaic except as overlapping with sense 7a. [Compare French sous couleur de (1378 in Middle French), also Old Occitan sus color de (1423).] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adverb] > under the appearance of under (the) umber of (or for)1423 by colour ofc1425 under (the) colour ofc1451 under the shadow of1523 with coloura1593 under the umbrage of1674 c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 92 (MED) Feyned folk..used her synne vndyr colour of holynesse. 1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 520 Brybours that wold a robbed a ship vndyr colour of my lord of Warwyk. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxix. §2. 437 Swikil tunge [L. lingua dolosa]..þat vndire colour of goed counsaile bryngis til syn. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xlvi. 63 He sent vnto them a prelate vnder the colour of the pope. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. ii. 3 Now I must be as vniust to Thurio, Vnder the colour of commending him. View more context for this quotation 1676 W. Sampson Rector's Bk. Clayworth 4 Jan. (1910) 22 Mr. Winteringham Vicar of Retford under colour of my consent & allowance..drawn to woodhouse. 1677 tr. A.-N. Amelot de La Houssaie Hist. Govt. Venice 53 The Senat found some way or other of interposing, under colour of accommodating their Quarrel. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. x. 282 There have been received under the colour of Religion, a world of Fables. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. x. 140 This is the oppression and tyrannical partiality of judges, justices, and other magistrates, in the administration and under the colour of their office. 1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. XI. 278 This receipt of sums of money, under colour of gift, seemed a growing evil. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) ix. 108 A present..given under colour of enabling him to appear more respectably. 1885 Neepawa (Manitoba) Star 21 Aug. 2/1 Nor should those intrusted with the people's money..embezzle..the least portion of that money, under colour of black coal or white coal, ditch contracts, or any other pretext. 1911 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 19 101 Sorel..has broken with the dominating politicians, who, he believes, under color of democratic socialism..aim only to reduce to servitude and to corrupt the working class. 1991 I. Littlewood Lit. Compan. Venice (1995) v. 141 Without giving themselves away, parents could thus go to see their children under colour of religious exercise. < as lemmas |
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