英语词汇“De、Witt”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

De-Witt

释义

† Dewitt, De-Witt, v. Obs.|dɪˈwɪt|
[From the surname of the two brothers John and Cornelius De Witt, Dutch statesmen, opponents of William III as Stadtholder of the United Provinces, who were murdered by a mob in 1672.]
trans. To kill by mob violence; to lynch.
1689Modest Enquiry into Present Disasters (1690) 32 It's a wonder the English Nation have not in their fury De-Witted some of those men.1690Abp. Sancroft Protestation, Such a fury, as may end in Dewitting us (a bloody Word, but too well understood).1695(title), Gallienus Redivivus; or, Murther Will Out, &c., being a true account of the De-Witting of Glencoe, Gaffney, &c.1711Vind. of Sacheverell 69 King William deserved to be De-Witted.1724in Lockhart Papers II. 162 Had Mr. Campbell himself been in town, they had certainly De-witted him.1824Southey Bk. of Ch. (1841) 544. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 660. 1888 Plumptre Life Ken II. xviii. 1 Men..were stirring up the people to that form of ‘lynching’ which was then knowne as ‘De Witting.’

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