| 单词 | by the powers! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby (all) the powers! a. A powerful celestial or spiritual being; a god, a divinity, esp. a pagan god. Frequently in asseverative or exclamatory phrases, as by (all) the powers!, merciful powers! ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] godeOE deityc1374 higher powerc1384 princec1384 divinityc1386 governorc1400 powerc1425 numen1495 fear1535 heaven1554 godheada1586 godhood1586 landlorda1635 supreme1643 supercelestial1652 supernal1661 universality1681 father1820 unspeakable1843 Molimo1861 Mlimo1897 superperson1907 somebody up there1972 sky fairy1997 the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > other religious oaths Petera1375 by this (good) lightc1380 passionc1390 by (all) the powers!c1425 hattersa1500 (by) Gog's arms, blood, body?1520 by my halidom1533 by (the) salmon?1536 as I am a sinner1682 by the holy poker1770 by the piper!1790 so help me salmon1834 Jehoshaphat1857 c1425 (c1400) Prymer (Cambr.) (1895) 6 (MED) To þee alle aungelis, to þee heuenes & alle maner poweris, To þee cherubyn and seraphyn, crien wiþ vois wiþ-oute ceessing: Holi! Holi! Holi! a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1965) II. 49 He had overcummyn all their powaris of myrknes. a1525 Bk. Sevyne Sagis 1684, in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 53 Thar' may na power' do þaim dammage. a1586 J. Rowll Cursing l. 1 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 161 Devyne poware of michtis maist. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 289 I would she were in heauen, so she could intreate some power to change this currish Iew. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 73 For which foule deed, The Powres, delaying (not forgetting) haue Incens'd the Seas..Against your peace. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 And then adore the Woodland Pow'rs with Pray'r. View more context for this quotation 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 192 There land, and pay due victims to the pow'rs. 1753 T. Gray Hymn to Adversity in Six Poems 26 Daughter of Jove, relentless Power. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 194 O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! 1815 J. H. Payne Trial Without Jury i, in America's Lost Plays (1940) V. 16 Powers of mercy! Is not that my daughter? Could I but speak with her alone! 1835 T. Hood Dead Robbery iii I reckon, by the pow'rs! I've lost ten pound by your not being stiffer! 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xviii. 236 The decline of belief in a beneficent Power. 1913 A. F. Irvine My Lady of Chimney-corner 73 Och, be th' powers, Jamie, me hair stud like th' brisels on O'Hara's hog. 1954 ‘W. March’ Bad Seed vi. 127 She had never been religious in the accepted sense of the word, but she'd always believed in the power that had once shaped the universe, and guided it now. 1991 R. Bocock Freud & Mod. Soc. (BNC) 71 In the early phases of civilization's development..people project their inner emotions and impulses outwards and thereby populate a universe with various spirits and supernatural powers. < as lemmas |
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