| 单词 | with the mainour |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswith (later in) the mainour (usually manner) ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [phrase] > committing a crime > in the act of with (the) red handc1430 with (later in) the mainour (usually manner)1530 in flagrant delict1819 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 752/1 I take with the maner, as a thefe is taken with thefte, or a person in the doyng of any other acte, je prens sur le faict. ?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce 107 Whether fryers..hauing bene so often taken with the maner to vse deceyte,..be therefore any more to be trusted afterwarde. 1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) 144 b at Maynour We commonlye vse to saye when we finde one doing of an vnlawfull act, that wee tooke him wyth the mainour, or manner. 1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements i. xiv. 44 Being taken in the manner, the Christians stoned him to death. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxi. ii. 168 [He] committed those and such like outrages..but being taken with the manoir and convict, he forbare and abstained. 1611 Bible (King James) Num. v. 13 If..a man lye with her carnally,..and there be no witnesse against her, neither she be taken with the maner [etc.]. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 282 They feigne that when Venus and Mars were in bed together, they were deprehended or taken in the manner, as we say, by Mercury. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xvi. 125 Mr. Tow-wouse being caught, as our Lawyers express it, with the Manner . View more context for this quotation 1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. 235 I held it beneath me to be caught in the manner. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 324 ‘Ha! my jolly Smith,’ he said, ‘have I caught thee in the manner?’ 1866 Chambers's Jrnl. No. 28. 261 If he were taken in the act or mainour. < as lemmas |
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