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单词 make means
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to make means
b.to make means: to take steps or make efforts (obsolete). to find means [compare Middle French trouver moyen de (a1473)] : to find a way, contrive, manage (with infinitive as object; formerly also with †of); also to find the means (also †mean) (with infinitive as object; formerly also with †for or †that-clause).
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > to do something
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seekc1000
fanda1225
suec1325
tastec1330
enforcec1340
study1340
temptc1384
intendc1385
assaila1393
proffera1393
to make meansc1395
search?a1400
fraistc1400
pursuec1400
to go aboutc1405
pretend1482
attempta1513
essay?1515
attend1523
regarda1533
offer1541
frame1545
to stand about1549
to put into (also in) practice1592
prove1612
imitate1626
snap1766
begin1833
make1880
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > intercede or use influence for [verb (transitive)] > intercede or use influence with
to make meansc1395
intercess1586
intercessionate1594
intercede1698
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > find means to do something [verb (intransitive)]
to make one's waya1400
to find (the) moyen (also moyens)1449
to find the means (also mean)1461
to find means?1464
to see one's way1628
c1395 G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale 883 How thanne may it be That ye swiche menes make it to destroyen, Whiche menes do no good but euere anoyen?
1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 96 That Richard Calle fynde the meane that a distresse may be taken of such bestes as occupie the ground at Stratton.
?1464 J. Russe in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 282 Ore hise wryting cam Wydwell fond the meanys..that we had a discharge fore hym out of the Chauncery.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia ii. sig. Pivv They make all the meanes and shyftes that maye be to kepe themselfes from the necessitye of fyghtynge.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 45 Then meanes was made vpon either side for the deliuery and exchaunge of prisoners.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. viii. 8 b I founde the meanes for moneye and withe fayre woordes to hyre a..Spaniarde.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 259 We..found meanes to pierce the vessell, and get good Wine to our ill fare.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 562 A man much renowned for..the charges he was at, and the meanes he made, to adorne..his Church.
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xvi. 193 There he found means to give them all the slip.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. iii. 10 It was this Gentleman, who..had found means to question him, concerning several Particulars. View more context for this quotation
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer viii. 211 One of them had been bred a weaver, and having a loom in the house, found means of cloathing the whole family.
1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein II. vi. 88 This lovely girl..found means to express her thoughts in the language of her lover by the aid of an old man, a servant of her father's, who understood French.
1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xii. 190 He had visited Europe, and found means, before his return, to see Italy, and part of France and Germany.
1881 A. Trollope Dr. Wortle's School I. viii. 142 If the first brunt of it were over, I could find means to comfort you.
1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan x. 157 It was with difficulty that Tarzan could find means to communicate with the natives.
1991 H. Barty-King Worst Poverty 89 Though the law prohibited the forcible opening of a door, yet the bailiffs found means to evade that prohibition.
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to make mean(s)
5. Mediation or intercession; exercise of influence to bring about something; instigation. to make mean(s) [compare Middle French faire son moyen (mid 15th cent.)] : to intercede; to negotiate with; to make overtures to.Cf. sense 2.
a. In plural. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [noun]
erndinga1000
mediationa1387
advocacyc1390
mediacya1425
meanc1450
moyen1454
interposition1462
mean1465
myance?a1513
advocation1532
intercession1534
advocateship?1555
intercessionment1593
interceding1600
intermise1612
means-making1617
intermission1647
interposal1687
spoke1867
c1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) (1886) 130 Sche made grete menys and grete preiors.
1456 in C. Innes & P. Chalmers Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc (1856) II. 88 And the boundis of it ar accordit be trety and the menys off thir personis.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKiiv By whose suffrage, intercession and meanes, we be holpen in this lyfe.
1536 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 498 Youre grase hys good mens.
1591 H. Unton Corr. (1847) 237 Great meanes have been made for him.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 78 Our brother is imprisoned by your meanes . View more context for this quotation
a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 191 Sir Henry Mildmay had made his meanes to the Duke of Buckingham..for carriage..of the Present designed to the Ambassador.
b. In singular. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [noun]
erndinga1000
mediationa1387
advocacyc1390
mediacya1425
meanc1450
moyen1454
interposition1462
mean1465
myance?a1513
advocation1532
intercession1534
advocateship?1555
intercessionment1593
interceding1600
intermise1612
means-making1617
intermission1647
interposal1687
spoke1867
1465 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 143 My lord of Norwich, by the meane of Master John Selot, had geue a jugement in the mater of the presentacion for the chirche of Drayton.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 239 (MED) He was sente ageyne the kynge of Araby thro meane of Cleopatra [L. ad petitionem Cleopatræ].
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 Thurgh the meane of the Mediatrice of Mercy.
1510 Hours Blessed Virgin 91 Give us the life that ever doth excell, Through thy prayer & speciall meane.
1535 Goodly Prymer in Eng. sig. L.iij They must nedes fyrst make meane vnto hym [sc. a temporal prince] by some man that is in his fauour.
1565 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. i. 567 The mr Maxwell..to reconcile my meane, on his knees entreated me to hear [etc.].
1570 R. Sempill Poysonit Schot (single sheet) How the same began to be suppressit: Be Murrayis meane we haif experience.
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