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動詞

make head against (三人称単数 現在形 makes head against, 現在分詞 making head against, 過去形および過去分詞形 made head against)

1. (obsolete) To attack, take up arms against.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act III, Scene 1,^[1]

     Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head

     Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye

     And sandy-bottom’d Severn have I sent him

     Bootless home and weather-beaten back.

   • 1740, William Oldys, The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, London, p. 28,^[2]

     The next, whose Fate drew on, was Sir James Desmond, who, on the Fourth of August in the above mentioned Year, having made an Inroad upon Muskerry, and taken a great Booty from Sir Cormac Mac Teige, Sheriff of Cork; the said Sheriff making Head against him, recover’d the Booty, wounded Sir James mortally, and took him Prisoner.

   • 1896, Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands, Part 3, Chapter Two,^[3]

     When I tried to put some heart into him, telling him he had four big guns—you know the brass six-pounders you left here last year—and that I would get powder, and that, perhaps, together we could make head against Lakamba, he simply howled at me.

2. (figuratively) To resist, oppose.
   • 1600, Thomas Walkington (attributed), An Exposition of the Two First Verses of the Sixt Chapter to the Hebrewes in Forme of a Dialogue, London: Thomas Man, Sermon 26, p. 348,^[4]

     Such is then this gallaunt and holie confidence of the spouse to braue her enemies, in whose person the Apostle speaking, wee see […] how hee beareth downe euerie high thing which presumeth to make head against God […]

   • 1715, Richard Bulstrode,“Of Religion” in Miscellaneous Essays, London: Jonas Browne, p. 307,^[5]

     […] if Children were early instructed, Knowledge would insensibly insinuate it self before their Years had arm’d them with Obstinacy enough to make Head against it.

   • 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter 23,^[6]

     […] if he began to brood over their miseries instead of trying to make head against them there could be little doubt that such a state of mind would powerfully assist the influence of the pestilent climate.

   • 1962, Aldous Huxley, Island, London: Chatto & Windus, Chapter Fifteen, p. 280,^[7]

     There was strength enough, he could see, in that small frame to make head against any suffering; a will that would be more than a match for all the swords that fate might stab her with.