Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
- (Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
- (obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
- (obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
- (obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.
- (obsolete, Scotland) A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
- (archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
Verbi
- (archaic) To give congee, (particularly)
- (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
- (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to do something; to license.
- (archaic) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
- (archaic) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.
Esimerkit
- So courteous conge both did giue and take, / With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.
- As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous.
- “My daughter Rebecca, so please your Grace,” answered Isaac, with a low congee, nothing embarrassed by the Prince’s salutation, in which, however, there was at least as much mockery as courtesy.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | congees |