单词 | as or so very a |
释义 | > as lemmasas or so very a b. With a inserted between the adjective and the noun qualified, esp. as or so very a. Cf. so adv. and conj. 14e. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter to the hard ——c1400 as or so very a1560 a fool (also man, etc.) in print1600 of the first (also finest, best, etc.) water1824 dyed in the wool1830 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > in emphatic use very1384 as or so very a1560 veritable1831 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccv There can no man be imagined so very a coward or so barbarouse. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Adæque miser, euen as very a wretch. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 14 For often times sene, no more very a knaue, than he that doth counterfet most to be graue. 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 352 I will onely content myself to protest that you were never so very a poet, as when you spake of me. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 29 July (1974) VIII. 364 He is as very a wencher as can be. 1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule iii. i. 1047 Thou cam'st to find as very a Madman As ever rav'd in Chains. 1739 A. Hill in S. Richardson Corr. (1804) I. 36 I was so very a boy when I suffered that light piece of work to be published, that [etc.]. 1748 S. Richardson Corr. (1804) I. 182 A thing..so very a nothing in itself. 1804 H. Martin Helen of Glenross IV. 118 So very a soldier. 1828 W. Scott Tapestr. Chamb. ⁋47 I sank back in a swoon, as very a victim to panic terror as ever was a village girl. 1844 C. MacFarlane Camp of Refuge (1897) v. 77 Without knowing..how very a prisoner she is in her own manor-house. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。