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Synonyms for handing down
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : hand |
Phonetic Transcription : hænd |
Définition of handing down
Origin :- Old English hond, hand "hand; side; power, control, possession," from Proto-Germanic *khanduz (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch, German hand, Old Norse hönd, Gothic handus). The original Old English plural handa was superseded in Middle English by handen, later hands.
- Meaning "person who does something with his hands" is from 1580s, hence "hired workman" (1630s) and "sailor in a ship's crew" (1660s). Clock and watch sense is from 1570s. Meaning "round of applause" is from 1838. The linear measure of 4 inches (originally 3) is from 1560s, now used only in giving the height of horses. The meaning "playing cards held in one player's hand" is from 1620s; that of "a round at a card game" is from 1620s.
- First hand, second hand, etc. (mid-15c.) are from the notion of something being passed down from hand to hand. Out of hand (1590s) is opposite of in hand "under control" (c.1200). Hand over fist (1825) is suggestive of sailors and fishermen hauling in nets. Hand jive is from 1958. To win something hands down (1855) is from horse racing, from a jockey's gesture of letting the reins go loose in an easy victory.
- The Two Thousand Guinea Stakes was not the best contested one that it has been our fortune to assist at. ... [T]hey were won by Meteor, with Scott for his rider; who went by the post with his hands down, the easiest of all easy half-lengths. Wiseacre certainly did the best in his power to spoil his position, and Misdeal was at one time a little vexatious. ["The Sportsman," report from April 26, 1840]
- To hand it to (someone) "acknowledge someone's ability" is slang from c.1906. Phrase on the one hand ... on the other hand is recorded from 1630s, a figurative use of the physical sense of hand in reference to position on one side or the other side of the body (as in the lefthand side), which goes back to Old English Hands up! as a command from a policeman, robber, etc., is from 1873. Hand-to-mouth is from c.1500. Hand-in-hand attested from c.1500 as "with hands clasped;" figurative sense of "concurrently" recorded from 1570s.
- verb pass along
- Why could not the woman see what the good God was handing down to her?
- Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post
- There he descended from his litter, handing down Nouronihar.
- Extract from : « Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century » by Samuel Johnson
- Shun also used the same language in handing down the appointment to Yu.
- Extract from : « The Wisdom of Confucius » by Epiphanius Wilson
- The poet in him had abdicated to the critic, handing down many choice gifts.
- Extract from : « The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume II (of 2) » by Benjamin Ellis Martin
- But history rarely guesses aright what the after-ages she works for would most thank her for handing down to them.
- Extract from : « A Decade of Italian Women, vol. I (of 2) » by T. Adolphus Trollope
- When he came to the top of the dike slope, his wife had dismounted and Isobel was handing down the baby to her.
- Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
- Hence models of beautiful art are the only means of handing down these Ideas to posterity.
- Extract from : « Kant's Critique of Judgement » by Immanuel Kant
- They preserve the custom of handing down by word of mouth, from generation to generation, their myths, traditions and history.
- Extract from : « Trails Through Western Woods » by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders
- The first and most common are commemorative, and are for the purpose of recording and handing down to posterity remarkable facts.
- Extract from : « St. Peter, His Name and His Office » by Thomas W. Allies
- And now he spoke in harsh command, as if handing down the doom of kingdoms, as indeed he did.
- Extract from : « God Wills It! » by William Stearns Davis
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- with a free hand
- with an iron hand
- with heavy hand
- wolf down
- worn-down
- write down
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