[Ads-l] Antedating?: _cross_ "betray or cheat"

[Joel Berson]

I think this "cross" is simply 14.a. fig.  "To thwart ...".  c1555.


Joel

 

     From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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 Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 7:52 PM
 Subject: [ADS-L] Antedating?: _cross_ "betray or cheat"
   
HDAS: 1821

Devotions in the Ancient Way of Offices ... Reform'd by a person of quality
... - Page 328
https://books.google.com/books?id=kadVAAAAcAAJ
*John AUSTIN (Roman Catholic Writer.), Susannah HOPTON - 1765 - Read
Thus the far greatest part of wretched mankind, whom thy goodness created
in thine own similitude; Whom thy Son redeemed with his precious blood, and
design'd to so great and lasting a happiness; Still fail, alas! of their
true end, and die in their sins; as if thy design, Lord, could be _cross'd_.


Clearly, there are several readings of _cross'd_ available other than, in
this context, the HDAS-ian "betray." An obvious example is "frustrated."
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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