单词 | had need |
释义 | > as lemmashad need a. to have need (with past had need): to require or be under a necessity to do something. Also (in Middle English) with bare infinitive and (in Old English) with that-clause. Cf. need v.2 10. Now Scottish and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > need [verb (intransitive)] > need to do something to have needOE to have mistera1400 OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xiv. 16 Non habent necesse ire : nabbas ned is þæt hia gegæ uel ðarf is him to geonganne. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 16 Nabbað hi neode to farenne. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 151 (MED) We habbeð niede him to bidden be daiȝ and be nihte. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 95 (MED) God zette..þet trau of lyue; hueruore þet his frut hedde nyede to loky þet lyf to þan þet hit ssolde ete. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Heb. vii. 27 Such a man..hath not nede ech day..to offre oostis or sacrificis. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 19589 Þou has nede to do penance I-nogh. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 224 (MED) Al Cristene men han nede to knowe bileve of þe gospel. 1456 W. Worcester in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 134 Ye have nede fare fayre wyth hym, for he ys full daungerouse. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) v. xi. 103 Nede hadde he none to wesshen hym selue. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iii. 60 We shall haue neede T'employ you towards this Romane. View more context for this quotation 1789 Pennsylvania Gaz. 11 Nov. Such men never have need to beg business, for the resources of their own minds and application is a fund of wealth. 1822 T. Jefferson Let. 6 Mar. in Writings (1984) 1457 I feel..the weight of opinion to which I may be opposed, and..I have need to ask the indulgence of a belief, that the opinion I have given is the best result I can deduce. 1850 O. Winslow Inner Life ii. 55 The best of saints have need to be warned against the worst of sins. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song i. 60 You've more need to be down in the house helping your mother wash out the hippens. 1991 M. Sunley Fields in Sun (BNC) xix. 219 The weather remained piercingly cold, so that whenever men or beasts had need to venture outdoors they were chilled to the bone. had need (a) With to-infinitive. Obsolete.Common in the 16th and 17th centuries. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > [verb (intransitive)] haveeOE oweOE byrc1175 needc1395 busc1400 had needa1425 behovec1475 fall1681 note1789 ought1816 oughta1840 a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 26 (MED) Þei ben worse þan frentikes, and so þei hadden nede to be chastisid til þis passion were fro hem. 1470 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 553 And ye purpose to bargayn wyth hym ye had need to hye yow. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke ix. f. 85v Therunto had we nede to haue a good summe of money. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique f. 117v An other speakes, as though his wordes had neede to be heaued out with leauers. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 4 George...They haue bene vp this two daies. Nicke. Then they had more need to go to bed now. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 107 A Chirurgian when he maketh incision..had need to use great dexteritie. 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 456 Women, as the weaker vessels, had need to be very careful. 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque in Wks. (1725) 252 He who to determine is Of such a tickle-point as this, Had need to have his Wits about him. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 160 Then said the Pilgrims one to another, We had need cry to the Strong for strength. View more context for this quotation 1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles xlvi. 171 A feeble Man and diffident had need to pray daily, Lord, lead us not into Temptation. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xii. 275 The Unseen Powers had need to watch over such a man. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such vi. 129 If the bad-tempered man wants to apologise he had need to do it on a large public scale. 1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 124 The others [sc. roads] tempted chiefly with their treasures of hedge and ditch... A loiterer you had need to be, did you choose one of them. (b) With bare infinitive. Obsolete.In sentences of this form need tends to become adverbial in character; cf. had rather and need adv.; contrast, however, quot. 18762. ΚΠ 1461 T. Playter in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 236 Ye had nede send a man by-fore in all hast. c1475 Mankind (1969) 354 (MED) Corn hade nede be dere, Ellys ȝe xall haue a pore lyffe. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 175 It had neede be a high point of pollicie that should rob Master Machiavel of his pollicie. 1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies 202 Indeed sir..I had need haue two eyes, to discerne so pettie a goe by ground as you. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 76 Shepheards of People had need know the Kalenders of Tempests in State. 1681 E. Hickeringill Horrid Sin Man-catching i. 23 They had need be Men of Cunning and Ability that can swear thorow-stitch and cleaverly. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera iii. iii. 42 One had need have the Constitution of a Horse to go thorough the Business. 1753 L. M. tr. J. Du Bosc Accomplish'd Woman II. 80 Morality had need employ its strongest reasonings. 1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 233 The Portuguese had need have the stomachs of ostriches. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters i. 19 Men had need bear ‘charmed lives’. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxv. 30 You had need hire men to..chip it all over artistically to give it an elderly-looking surface. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby I had mair need wark. < as lemmas |
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