hołdować
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Inherited from Old Polish hołdować. By surface analysis, hołd + -ować.
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hołdować impf
- (intransitive, feudalism) to pay homage [+dative = to whom]
- Synonym: składać hołd
- (intransitive, literary) to adhere to, uphold [+dative = an idea]
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hołdować impf (perfective zhołdować)
- (transitive) to force to surrender, to forcibly make one's vassal
- 1898, Antoni Wrotnowski, Pozbiorowe Aspiracye Narodu Polskiego[1], 3rd edition, G. Gebethner i Spółka, pages 72–73:
- Utrzymując ferment między stronnictwami, doprowadziła ona [cesarzowa Katarzyna] ówczesne społeczeństwo polskie do przyjęcia jej protektoratu (r. 1767), i od tej pory poczytując Polskę za kraj zhołdowany, usiłowała nie dopuścić w nim żadnego innego wpływu.
- Keeping up the unrest between the factions, she [Catherine the Great] led the Polish society at that time to accept her protectorate (in the year 1767), and from that time deeming Poland a country that had been made her vassal, she endeavored not to allow any other influence in it.
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