| 单词 | at first face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat (also in, on, upon) (the) first face (b) at (also in, on, upon) (the) first face: at the first appearance or look, at first sight. Now rare. [Compare Middle French de premiere face (c1375).] ΚΠ c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 166 As to the first face, jt semys yat he wrangis him nocht. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. To Rdr. sig. Aaaiiii Although it seeme harde..at the first face, yet folow thou styll the counsell. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 7 Nathir schawes furth Britannie all that it hes at the first face. 1641 J. Shirley Cardinal iii. ii Though at the first Face of the object your cool bloods were frighted. a1740 J. Abernethy Disc. Perfections God (1743) I. x. 369 We ought not to pronounce judgment upon the first face of things. 1810 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 192/1 A narrative, which, on the first face of it, looked..much like truth. 1826 E. Irving Babylon I. ii. 120 In the very first face and showing of the thing. 1994 W. R. Newman Gehennical Fire iv. 142 At first face, then, it sounds as if Van Helmont is proposing that all substances must be volatilized..before they can be truly combined. < as lemmas |
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