| 释义 |
new-make, v.
[new adv. 6.]
trans. To make again or anew.
1617Hieron Wks. II. 205 The great worke of new making a mans heart. 1649Milton Eikon. 57 The King can no more reject a Law than he can new make a Law. 1714Derham Astro-Theol. (1769) 11 When my hand was in, I new-made some part of it. 1790J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 567 It would give me pleasure..to correct or new-make the whole work. 1835Gentl. Mag. i. 376 He new-made the light.
Hence new-making vbl. n.
1495Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 274 In Newmaking of takle and apparell. 1580R. Hitchcock Politic Plat c j b, Euerie shippe..shall paie tenne shillynges (towardes the newe makyng of euery shippe so wanting). 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 94 Our bodies..are not cast off by death, but put to new making. |