| 单词 | upon the gaze |
| 释义 | > as lemmasupon the gaze b. at gaze, †at a or the gaze; said of a deer (now chiefly Heraldry: see quot. 1828-40), also of persons: in the attitude of gazing, esp. in wonder, expectancy, bewilderment, etc. So in to stand at (†a, the) gaze, †to set at the gaze, etc. †to hold at gaze: to hold fascinated. Also with other prepositions as †in a gaze, gaze on, upon the gaze; †to put to the gaze: to puzzle, nonplus. See also agaze adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adverb] > staring or gazing agazec1350 with all the eyes in one's head1483 gazingly1564 at a or the gaze1578 staringly1580 on (also upon) the stare1709 in a gazea1715 upon the gaze1817 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] marvela1425 esmarvel1477 amaze?1533 wondera1561 bewondera1586 to hold at gaze1594 admire1598 wonder-maze1603 astonish1611 thunderstrike1613 surprise1655 to astonish the natives1801 emmarvel1834 zap1967 mind-blow1970 gobsmack1987 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > perplex, nonplus [phrase] to bring (drive, or put) to one's wit's end1377 to cast (also throw) a mist before a person's eyes?a1475 to set (also run) on ground1600 to make butter and cheese of1642 to put to the gaze1646 philogrobolized in one's brains1653 to strike all of (on) a heap1711 to blow, cast, throw stour in one's eyes1823 knot1860 to give (one) furiously to think1910 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 23 I haue read..that the whole heard of Deare stande at the gaze, if they smell a sweete apple. 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. A4 Whose eye holds wanton Venus at a gaze. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 309 A sheep-heard..strucken with the majestie of the man, stood at gaze vpon him. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 137 Especially as many as were English: who were at a gaze looking strange one upon another. 1646 Sir C. Cavendish Let. to Pell in R. Vaughan Protect. Cromwell (1838) II. 374 The business is too difficult for me to judge of, for it puts our learned men here to the gaze. a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 140 I had still a likelyhood in gaze. 1680 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Epist. Pref. sig. a2 Pindar is generally known to be a dark writer, to want Connexion..to soar out of sight, and leave his Reader at a Gaze. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ix. 162 This Vapor..had so long set the Nations at a Gaze. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 75 And when the time of setting out the fleet came on, all were in a gaze whither it was to go. 1749 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Spirit Patriotism 22 All indifferent men stood as it were at a gaze. 1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation iv. 140 Where..the earnest intelligent contemplation of God is the constant exercise, there is nothing..that can so set his adoring myriads upon the gaze, as some new..evolution of the character of God. 1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. (at cited word) The hart, stag, buck, or hind, when borne in coat-armour, looking affrontée or full-faced, is said to be at gaze..but all other beasts in this attitude are called guardant. 1859 J. White Hist. France (1860) 20 On this occasion all Europe was on the gaze. 1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xix. §5. 310 Vert, three Harts at gaze or. 1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ II. lxi. 407 The great body of the people seem to have stood silently at gaze. < as lemmas |
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