| 单词 | left to one's own devices |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleft to one's own devices a. Will, pleasure, inclination, fancy, desire. In earlier use chiefly in at one's (own) device [ < Old French à mon, ton, etc. devis] ; later only in plural; now only in left to one's own devices, etc., where it is associated with sense 6 (originally devis). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > [noun] willeOE hearteOE i-willc888 self-willeOE intent?c1225 device1303 couragec1320 talentc1325 greec1330 voluntyc1330 fantasyc1374 likinga1375 disposingc1380 pleasancea1382 affectionc1390 wish1390 disposition1393 affecta1398 likea1400 lista1400 pleasingc1400 emplesance1424 pleasurec1425 well-willingc1443 notiona1450 mindc1450 fancy1465 empleseur1473 hest?a1513 plighta1535 inclination1541 cue1567 month's mind1580 disposedness1583 leaning1587 humour1595 wouldings1613 beneplacit1643 wouldingness1645 vergency1649 bene-placiture1662 good liking1690 draught1758 tida1774 inkling1787 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 11786 Hyt ys sloghenes and feyntes To take penaunce at þy dyuys. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11576 Þat he ne suld rise, Al at his aun deuise. c1450 Crt. of Love xii No sapphire of Inde, no ruby rich of price There lacked than..ne thing to my devise. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxcviii. 691 They..toke a place of grounde at their deuyse, abyding their enemyes. 1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Morninge Prayer sig. .ii We haue folowed to much the deuises [1607 devices] and desyres of oure owne heartes. 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 38 Loosing and knitting marriages, by devise at pleasure. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xviii. 12 We will walk after our own deuices . View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Milton Psalm LXXXI in Poems (new ed.) 148 Their own conceits they follow'd still Their own devises blind. 1870 Mrs. H. Wood G. Canterbury's Will xv What would you do, if left to your own devices? < as lemmas |
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