| 单词 | in kilter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin kilter Good condition, order. Only in prepositional phrases, as in in kilter, into kilter, etc. (cf. also off-kilter adv. and adj.). Chiefly in out of kilter: out of alignment, balance, or harmony; in disarray; in poor condition. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health healOE healthc1000 strengthOE soundc1275 hailc1300 halec1330 quartc1330 liege poustie1340 plight1394 soundness1398 sanity?a1475 quartfulness1483 healthfulness?1535 symmetry?1541 flesh1548 good liking?1560 well-being1561 valetude1575 safeness1576 kilter1582 mens sana in corpore sanoc1605 eucrasy1607 sanitude1652 salubrity1654 wellness1654 healthiness1670 vegeteness1678 wholesome1738 haleness1815 able-bodiedness1857 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > in disorder [phrase] at or on six and sevenOE out of kinda1375 out of rulea1387 out of tonea1400 out of joint1415 out of nockc1520 out of tracea1529 out of order1530 out of tune1535 out of square1555 out of kilter1582 off the hinges?1608 out of (the) hinges?1608 in, out of gear1814 out of gearing1833 off the rails1848 on the bumc1870 the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > good or bad condition or order point?c1225 plighta1375 waya1400 ply1443 ploy1477 abyss1548 order1569 kilter1582 trim1628 tilter1674 fettle?1748 kidney1763 fix1816 the world > relative properties > order > in (proper) order [phrase] in point1481 in ordera1500 in tune1535 kilter1621 in punto1631 α. β. 1606 S. Gardiner Bk. Angling 157 For if a clocke bee out of kelter and frame, I trowe the clock-keeper is more to bee blamed, than the clocke which is at his ordering?1643 R. Williams Key into Lang. Amer. 177 Their Gunnes they..often sell many a score to the English, when they are a little out of frame or Kelter.a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 201 If the organs of Prayer are out of kelter, or out of tune, how can we pray?1722 in Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1872) VI. 335 Mending, cleansing and keeping in good kelter the firelocks left with his Honour.1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 20 May (1941) 248 The rest are in high kelter.1834 Westm. Rev. Apr. 274 The forces are at this moment a little scattered, and may take that time to get them into kelter.1875 Contemp. Rev. 25 262 Some part of her internal economy is chronically out of kelter.1986 Humboldt Jrnl. Social Relations 13 103 The murder of Abel tells how the origins of humankind are out of kelter.1582 J. Ludham tr. R. Gwalther Homilies Joel f. 67 Is it necessarye that the riuers of heauenlye doctrine should flowe into the mindes of men being otherwise barren and out of kilter, to the end they may be made fitte for those thinges, that are prescribed vnto vs of the Lord. 1621 T. Taylor Parable of Sower & Seed 153 If we desire the Word should prosper in vs: doe as the good Husbandman, who would keepe his ground in good kilter, on which his seed is cast, or to be cast. 1681 in New Eng. Mag. (1898) June 450/1 The seats some burned and others out of kilter. 1753 S. Smythies Stage-coach II. 24 Aye, squire, that thing [sc. a statue] has been fixt in this spot I warrant you these hundred years; it was sadly out of kilter when I came to the estate. 1862 J. R. Lowell Lett. I. 359 I must rest awhile. My brain is out of kilter. 1883 J. Hawthorne Dust I. 16 There's something awkward here... A joint out of kilter perhaps. 1938 ‘E. Queen’ Four of Hearts (1939) xii. 173 Jack's death sort of knocked you out of kilter. 1960 M. Phillips in Analog Sci. Fact & Fiction Nov. 16/1 We've had some reports that some of the government machines are out of kilter, and I'd like you to go over them for me. 1974 Financial Times 23 Jan. 28/7 Dr. Kissinger has pledged himself to give a priority to putting Atlantic relations back into kilter. 2005 Campaign 11 Feb. 18/3 We are out of kilter with the rest of society. < as lemmas |
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