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单词 at a' will
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at a' will
(b) Chiefly without possessive, as at will. According to one's desire, as one wishes or likes; esp. (used predicatively or as complement, of wind or weather) favourable. Obsolete. Also (Scottish) at all will (in form at a' will): as much as one could wish for. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records the phrase with all as still in use in Shetland and north-eastern Scotland in 1974.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > [adverb]
to one's willOE
by one's willOE
self-willesOE
after a person's willOE
a-willc1275
at willc1300
at one's (own) liberty1426
ad placituma1556
at pleasure1579
ad libitum1606
arbitrarilya1626
arbitrariously1653
discretionally1655
ad arbitrium1663
voluntarily1676
discretionarily1681
antecedently1682
discretionary?1707
ad lib1791
at one's own sweet will1802
at choice1817
at no allowance1858
the mind > will > free will > [adverb] > with freedom of will
in one's free will?c1225
at a person's willc1300
abandonc1330
freely1340
wilfully1340
contingently1601
electively1636
facultatively1887
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [phrase] > (of weather or wind) as one wishes
on willOE
at a person's willc1300
the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > [adverb] > so as to content or satisfy > to one's satisfaction
to one's willOE
a-willc1275
at a person's willc1300
fillc1300
to payc1300
at, to greec1374
with or upon one's wish or wishes1390
agreea1425
at wisha1525
to (one's) wish (rarely wishes)1586
to one's heart's content1600
wishfully1607
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 12795 Wind heom stod at wille [c1275 Calig. on wille], muriest alre wedere.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2243 Quen þai at wil had festend grund, Þe wark þai raised in a stund.
a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) l. 492 All þat nedes ȝou vntill Sal ȝe haue at ȝour awne wyll.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. E.vjv Thus haue ye had the goddes at wyl.
1579 T. Stevens Let. 10 Nov. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 161 Our Pilot..thinking himselfe to haue wind at will.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) At a' will, to the utmost extent of one's inclination or desire.
1929 in Sc. National Dict. (1976) X. (at cited word) [Banffshire] Ye wis crying for frost; I think ye've gotten't at a' wull.
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