| 单词 | as is meet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas (also than) is meet b. In predicative use, of an action: fitting, becoming, proper. Chiefly in it is meet that (also with infinitive), occasionally as (also than) is meet.In quot. 1549 after post-classical Latin dignum et iustum est in the Ordinary of the Mass. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > fitting or proper methelyeOE ylikeeOE fairOE i-meteOE rightOE becomelyc1175 proper?c1225 featc1325 conablea1340 rightful1340 worthyc1350 pursuanda1375 covenable1382 dignec1385 convenablec1386 thriftyc1386 sittingc1390 comenablea1400 gainlya1400 meeta1400 wortha1400 convenientc1400 meetlya1425 suinga1425 fitc1440 tallc1440 worthyc1450 good1477 dueful?a1527 beseeminga1530 fitting1535 straighta1538 decent1539 answerable1542 becoming1565 condecent1575 becomed1599 respective1605 befittinga1612 comely1617 decorous1664 shape-like1672 beseemly1737 farrantly?1748 fitly1840 in order1850 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 3675 (MED) His moder..cled him, sum it was mete, Wit his broþer robe þat smelled suete. c1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 76 (MED) Among all other ther is no-thyng mor mete To the help of man then temperat diete. ?a1525 (c1450) Christ's Burial & Resurrection i. 686 in F. J. Furnivall Digby Plays (1896) 194 O swete child! it was nothinge mete..To lat Iudas kisse thes lippes so swete. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxviv It is mete and right so to do. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xxvi. 14 Doe with mee as seemeth good and meet vnto you. View more context for this quotation 1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 56 Using far less diligence here than was meet. 1752 E. Young Brothers i. i My cities, which deserted in my wars, I thought it meet to punish. 1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 116 This is lovelier and sweeter, Men of Ithaca, this is meeter, In the hollow rosy vale to tarry. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Introd. iv. 34 His Son.., as was meet, was clothed with mightier powers. 1936 J. G. Cozzens Men & Brethren i. 35 It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs. 1989 A. B. Giamatti Take Time for Paradise iii. 95 While we have considered the abstract principles and patterns of our narrative, and its mythic fable, it is meet to be most concrete when thinking on the tellers of the tale. < as lemmas |
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