| 单词 | in virtue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin virtue P4. in virtue: with regards to essential qualities; in essence. Frequently in in virtue and effect. Cf. virtually adv. 1a. Now rare. [Originally after French en vertu potentially, in essence (c1377; c1369 in sense ‘efficaciously’).] ΚΠ 1630 E. Cary tr. J. D. Du Perron Reply to Answeare of King iv. iii. 385 Him that for being the head of the Apostleship, containes in vertue [Fr. en vertu] all the Apostolicke Bodie. a1633 G. Herbert Priest to Temple (1652) xxi. 86 A most plain and easie framing the question, even containing in vertue the answer also. 1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence 21 They say he [sc. Christ] is taken by the mouth, and that the spiritual and the virtual taking him in virtue or effect is not sufficient. a1768 T. Secker Lect. Catech. (1777) xxxvi. 304 A Security for a Sum of Money, is called the Sum itself; and is so in Virtue and Effect. 1822 Brit. Rev. Mar. 187 The transaction of 1688 was in virtue and effect a restoration. 1844 W. E. Gladstone in Foreign & Q. Rev. 301 The majority have in virtue and effect abdicated. 1941 L. Thorndike Hist. Magic & Exper. Sci. IV. xlv. 482 Aristotle grants that God contains all things in virtue as in cause. < as lemmas |
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