单词 | under god |
释义 | > as lemmasunder God (c) under God: as a secondary cause; as a secondary object of gratitude; with God's permission. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [adverb] > second to God under God1314 1314 ( Royal Charter: William I to Bp. Herman, Beorhtwig, Scewine, & all his Thegns in Dorset in D. Bates Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum (1998) 112 Ic cyðe eow ðæt se abbod æt Abbodesbyrig & ða gebroþra & ða land & ða men & æle [read ælc] ðara ðinga ðæt ðe hyrþ in to sancte Petres mynstre to Abbodesbirig ðæt hit ys eall on minne munde & on minan fullan gehealde under God, swa full & swa forþ swa hit ðeder in furþ Orc leg on Eadwardes dæge kyneges mines meges. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 619 O. Influences of þise heuenes hye. Soth is þat vnder god ye ben oure hierdes. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 43 We men..arn a fayr parcel of the erthe and holden the upperest degree, under god, of benigne thinges. 1570 J. Kello Confessioun sig. A.viv I desyre nathing mair vnder God then to be separate fra the contagioun of this wickit flesche. 1607 Merrie Iests George Peele 10 Yet, quoth he, vnder God, I will doe him some good. 1619 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 170 The blessedness of this good work, under God, is to be attributed to the king alone. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 23 He..thank'd me that had, under God, given him and so many miserable Creatures their Lives. 1777 H. H. Brackenridge Death Gen. Montgomery i. i. 14 Thus, under God, we haply may succeed. 1867 Amer. Q. Church Rev. Jan. 568 Every soul, under God, is to interpret Scripture for itself. 1944 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 30 Apr. (1995) 76 Probable under God that we shall meet again, ‘in hale and in unity’, before very long. 1985 Third Way Apr. 13/2 One of its [sc. Government's] functions is, under God, to restrain evil. 2006 M. Novak & J. Novak Washington's God vi. 114 He felt deep within himself the pull, under God, of America's universal mission. < as lemmas |
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