单词 | master-fascination |
释义 | > as lemmasmaster-fascination C5. Applied attributively to things, with the sense ‘relating to, proceeding from, or characteristic of a master’ (often with mixture of Compounds 2b), as master-duty, master-fascination, master-game, †master-reach, master-throw, etc. Cf. master hand n. at Compounds 6; masterpiece n., masterstroke n. ΚΠ 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 242 Neither did hee care how Cunning they were, that hee did imploy, For hee thought himselfe to haue the Master-Reach. 1624 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 82 Here then the magistrate..may learn..his master-duty. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 21 Discovers a master faculty in making easie. 1775 M. O. Warren Group ii. iii. 18 Yes all allow he play'd a master game, And dealt his cards with such peculiar skill. 1821 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 25 310 This rare dissembler..played his master-game at once. 1825 J. Hogg Queen Hynde 324 No clamour rose,..From such a monarch's master-throw. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. vii. vi. 353 The master-fascination that he could command. a1872 J. D. Aylward in Ess. Relig. & Lit. (1874) 3rd Ser. III. 90 Subject themselves..to the master-will of him whom they constitute the lord of their life. < as lemmas |
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