单词 | in show |
释义 | > as lemmasin show (a) in show. extracted from shown.1 (i) In appearance; esp. in appearance but not in nature; ostensibly, superficially. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adverb] > seemingly or apparently in semblant?a1366 quasi1485 cloakedlya1500 appearingly1554 in show1556 apparentlya1572 pearinglya1578 with show1614 seeminglya1616 seemingly1715 seemly1821 in semblance1864 semblably1889 mbu2002 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adverb] > in appearance colourably1433 in show1556 for show1563 affectedly1637 speciously1647 ostensibly1762 ostensively1763 lamb-fashion1810 pretencedly1885 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxxi. sig. Piiiv One tale in two tellers: with one entente tolde, May differ in show: as doth brasse and fine golde. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. ii. sig. B8v While hee was speaking, there came a boy in shew like a Merchants prentice. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlviii. 100 Otherwise they are but in shew opposite and not in truth. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 48 The small Flower de-luce of Dalmatia is in shew like to the precedent. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 173 The place of the chiefe Justice was in shew but one Office. 1674 J. Moodey Souldiery Spiritualized 5 A Christian Souldier and that in deed, in reality, not in show or appearance. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. x. 365 She had let the council of state..subsist in shew. 1773 E. Burke Let. 29 Sept. in Corr. (1844) I. 445 The wheat was large in show upon the ground, but the yield in flour is not extraordinary. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 51 To have two governing bodies; the one real, the other only in show. 1910 H. Walker Lit. Victorian Era ii. v. 418 Browning's pieces are dramatic in essence and not merely in show. 2015 C. Matusiak in S. M. Deats & R. A. Logan C. Marlowe at 450 xi. 289 His ignorance and malfeasance reveal him to be a divine merely in show. ΚΠ 1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. li Ye beaute of infideles: whiche beauty was set out in shewe by wantone and mysordred araye. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. G.ij To sell suche marchaundyse, sette it not in so yll a shewe. c1590 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta ii. ii. 748 On this condition shall thy Turkes be sold. Goe Officers and set them straight in shew. 1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Ded. sig. A2 In signification of the will I haue to do vnto your Lordship any acceptable seruice, [I have] no other matter in shew, then a fresh renouation of the self same title by a second presentment. < as lemmas |
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