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单词 as the matter of course
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as the matter of course
Something which is to be expected as following the natural course or order of things. as a matter of course: naturally; without question, hesitation, or second thought. Also as the matter of course (rare).Now rare as a mass noun.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usual course, condition, etc. > usual, natural, or expected course
matter of course1577
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > lack of wonder > [noun] > a natural event
matter of course1577
naturality1643
1577 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. Ephesians iii. 138 In a Court of Iustice of the world, it myght well bee a matter of course (as they terme it).
1658 Mercurius Politicus No. 411. 459 These things will be taken on, as matters of course in the Electoral diet.
1681 J. Chamberlaine tr. G. Bona Manuductio ad Coelum ii. 16 And he that understands it not to be Matter of Course, and meer Formality.
1739 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 392 He thought it a Matter of Course.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 159 What I suffer'd, I suffer'd out of a kind of gratitude, and as matter of course after what had pass'd.
1788 A. Hamilton in Federalist Papers lxxxi. 319 There an appeal from one jury to another, is familiar both in language and practice, and is even a matter of course.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. xii. 111 Having as a matter of course sold my cloak-bag.
1878 S. Walpole Hist. Eng. II. 525 Protestants guilty of killing Roman Catholics were acquitted, as a matter of course, by Protestant juries.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 May 4/1 He takes all his wounds quite as matter of course.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xiv. 233 To these river wanderers, veterans in the unconventional life,..the unusual is the usual, the unexpected the expected, whatever might happen was the matter of course.
1954 C. R. Attlee As it Happened xiv. 120 The King took it as a matter of course and was amused at the experience.
1983 S. Donaldson Gilden-fire 21 Cerrin and Sill he included as a matter of course.
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