| 单词 | at no allowance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat no allowance P3. at no allowance: without stint, freely. Now Scottish. Sc. National Dict. (at Alooance) records this phrase as still in use in Orkney, north-eastern Scotland, Angus, and Perthshire in 1975. ΘΚΠ 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 1732 R. Everard Relation Three Years Sufferings in Churchill's Coll. Voy. VI. 274/2 The captain had the best pieces salted up, and the rest was eat at no allowance. 1766 T. Sadler Poems Var. Subj. 77 His Apprentices and Servants..soon began to eat and drink at no Allowance. 1794 ‘T. Thrum’ Look before ye Loup: Pt. 2nd 20 Preachin' an' prayin' awa at no allowance. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. v. 351 His people pluck him at no allowance. 1879 J. H. Ewing We & World ii. xviii, in Aunt Judy's Mag. 17 741 The white foam breaks at no allowance about their feet. < as lemmas |
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