| 单词 | in a medium |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin a medium a. More generally: a middle quality, degree, or condition. Formerly also: †something (occasionally someone) intermediate in nature, degree, or position (obsolete). †in a medium: intermediate (between) (obsolete). Now rare except in happy medium n. at happy adj. and n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > [noun] > mean middlingOE middlelOE meanc1450 neutralityc1475 moyen1484 temper?1523 mediety1573 medium1593 temperature1598 temperament1604 intermedial1605 median1635 intermediate1650 average1737 middle term1754 mesne1821 intermediacy1836 intermediary1865 1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 29 There is no concorde betweene water and fire, nor any medium betweene loue and hatred. 1618 E. Elton Complaint Sanctified Sinner xviii. 362 There is no medium: no middle nor indifferent state and condition betweene these two. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §293 This Appetite is in a Medium between the other two. 1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 111 A saltish slime, and in tast..a Medium betwixt salt, and Nitre. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved To Husbandman sig. e3 There is a Medium in all things. 1663 J. Heath Flagellum (ed. 2) Pref. I place and reckon this Cromwell as a Medium or Mean, betwixt..Wallenstein..and Thomas Anello. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 12/1 That the Inhabitants may not be obliged to pass out of a cold Place into a hot one, without a Medium of temperate Air. 1752 J. Gill Doctr. Trinity (ed. 2) vi. 116 Between God and a creature there is no medium. a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1772) VII. vi. 108 There is a medium between frantic zeal and sinful compliance. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Recitative, a species of musical recitation forming the medium between air and rhetorical declamation. 1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace lvii Poesy between the best and worst No medium knows. 1869 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Talk 28 There is a medium in all things, only blockheads go to extremes. < as lemmas |
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