mindn.1
/mʌɪnd/, U.S. /maɪnd/ I. Senses relating to memory.† 2. The faculty of memory. Obsolete.† 4. † 5. Mention, record. Chiefly in to make mind (with of or subordinate clause). Obsolete.
1. The state of being remembered; remembrance, recollection. Chiefly in phrases.† c. to come (also run) in mind: to occur to one (esp. on reflection), to be recalled (in Middle English with dative of person). Obsolete.
a. to come to mind: to be recalled; to occur to a person (esp. on reflection); to suggest itself. Also †to fall, run to mind (in Middle English with dative of person) (obsolete).
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > come to mind, occur [verb (intransitive)]
comeeOE
runOE
to come to mindOE
occur?a1500
to move to mind?a1525
to come, fall under, lie in one's cap1546
to take (a person) in the head1565
present1585
overpass1591
to come in upon a person1638
suggest1752
to come up1889
OE Rubrics & Direct. for Use of Forms of Service (Laud) in M. Förster & K. Wildhagen Texte u. Forschungen zur englischen Kulturgeschichte (1921) 55 Ic on mænigfealdum synnum bewyled eam, þeah hy ne me namcuðlice nu to mynde cuman ne magon.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 602 And every word gan up and down to wynde That he had seyd, as it com hire to mynde.
?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 22 (MED) Me fel to mynde how that, [etc.].
a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) 61 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 415 (MED) But now to mynde kometh the champioun Off Estyngland..Callid seynt Edmund.
c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 219 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 228 & alsa rane hyme þane to mynd, þat he, as a wykyt man & vnkynd, had slane hyr sone.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1923 (MED) And euyn with that cam to my mynde My furst conclusion that I was abowte To haue drevyn.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 338 We shal teache only a fewe, and suche as shall come to minde by the waye.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 42 But this and other our water scapes made that saying of Byas come to mind, Navigantes, nec inter vivos nec inter mortuos esse numerandos.
1850 R. W. Emerson Uses of Great Men in Representative Men i. 26 But it comes to mind that a day is gone, and I have got this precious nothing done.
1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 142 Contemplating these darlings of Nature..Samson's riddle comes to mind, ‘Out of the strong cometh forth sweetness’.
1943 M. McLuhan Let. 26 Oct. (1987) 135 Siegfried Giedion..comes to mind now because of his conscious exploitation of ‘Space-Time’ metaphors in his exposition of architectural history.
1990 D. Shekerjian Uncommon Genius iii. xiii. 202 A line from the Talmud comes to mind: If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I?
b. in mind: remembered, kept in the memory. to have (also bear, keep, hold, etc.) in mind: to remember, retain in memory; to recall and take into consideration, keep one's attention fixed upon (now the principal sense). See also bear v.1 Phrases 1i.Formerly also: spec. †(in arithmetical calculation) carried (obsolete), hence †to keep in mind: to carry (a number, cipher, etc.) (obsolete).
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > retain in the memory [verb (transitive)]
i-mune971
to have (also bear, keep, hold, etc.) in minda1200
withholdc1200
membera1382
treasure1382
demeanc1460
mindc1460
retain1474
keep1574
to take (a thing) with one1577
carry1583
weara1586
the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > commemorate [verb (intransitive)] > be kept in memory
in minda1200
the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > transfer to next column
refer1588
to have (also bear, keep, hold, etc.) in mind1612
carry1657
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 209 Listeð nu..and undernimeð hit on heorte, and habbeð hit on minde.
c1300 St. Francis (Laud) 460 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 67 (MED) Huy hadden in muynde hou muche he was anoured er of foules.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 636 Ȝo wolde þat ire name were eueremo in munde.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 415 He dede oon dede þat is worþy to be kepte in mynde [v.r. munde].
c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 1127 In the olde Romayn gestes may men fynde Maurices lyf; I bere it noght in mynde.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 1961 The whos knyhtnode is yit in mende, And schal be to the worldes ende.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 6095 In mynde shal ȝe holde þis day.
1431 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 27 Also haue in mende of ij chales.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 222 Als lang in mynd my work sall hald..As ony of thair werkis all.
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Dvi The Lorde wyll haue all theyr iuell doynges in mynde.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxv. 27 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 185 Iehouah..us in mind doth beare.
1612 W. Colson Art Arith. in Gen. Treasury G gg 4 Which maketh 17. pence, I write 7. in a place further towards the right hand, and keepe 1. in minde.
1656 T. Willsford Arithm. 33 4 times 5 is 20, for which subscribe a cypher, and keep 2 decimalls in minde;..then say 4 times 3 is 12, and 2 in minde is 14.
1675 J. Bunyan Light in Darkness 35 This their stumble might arise..From their own not observing and keeping in mind the Alarum that God gave them at his Birth.
1780 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 260 I retain in mind, and recur, almost daily, to your requisitions of August.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vi. v. 172 Bearing in mind the exact position..in which I stand.
1881 G. M. Craik Sydney I. vii. 154 Will you keep in mind that we have got to be better friends?
1895 Sir A. Kekewich in Law Times Rep. 73 662/2 Keeping that fact in mind.
1939 A. Clarke Coll. Plays (1963) 95 It is hard to hold The difference in mind.
1975 Verbatim Sept. 9/2 Works that purport to present accurate linguistic facts about the Celtic role in English would do well to keep this in mind.
1987 R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde v. 102 Wilde was veering away from his former devoutness, but bore in mind that his examiners were probably in orders.
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a1275 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr. B.14.39) in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 31 Nou is mon hol & soint & huvel him comit in mund.
c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1402 It ran hym in his mynde That, sith his face was so disfigured..He myghte wel..Lyue in Atthenes eueremoore vnknowe.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. 49 (MED) Coueytyse-of-eyes cam ofter in mynde Þan dowel or dobet amonge my dedes alle.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 629 (MED) Thanne cam jt jn hire mynde anon that the enemy hire hadde ouergon.
c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 248 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 136 Þane rane hym in mynde in hy þat he vald firste quyke þam fla.
d. out of mind (also †from mind): forgotten. Chiefly in phrases to be out of mind, †to go of mind, †to pass from (also out of) mind: to be no longer remembered, to be forgotten; †to set (something) out of mind: to forget about (something); to put (something) out of mind (also out of one's mind): to ignore or disregard (something, esp. something unpleasant or distressing).Frequently in the proverb out of sight, out of mind (cf. out of prep. 11, sight n.1 10b), and variants.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)]
dwelec900
wedec900
awedeeOE
starea1275
braidc1275
ravea1325
to be out of mindc1325
woodc1374
to lose one's mindc1380
madc1384
forgetc1385
to go out of one's minda1398
to wede (out) of, but wita1400
foolc1400
to go (also fall, run) mada1450
forcene1490
ragec1515
waltc1540
maddle?c1550
to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565
pass of wita1616
to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682
madden1704
to go (also be) off at the nail1721
distract1768
craze1818
to get a rat1890
to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896
(to have) bats in the belfryc1901
to have straws in one's hair1923
to take the bats1927
to go haywire1929
to go mental1930
to go troppo1941
to come apart1954
the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > forgotten [phrase]
out of sight, out of mindc1325
the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > forgotten
out of memorya1275
of minda1325
out of mindc1325
forlainc1330
unrememberedc1425
oblivious1535
forgotten1600
unretained1666
unrecollected1733
unrecalled1742
buried1806
evanished1829
unmemoried1829
unrevived1877
spark out1882
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 725 (MED) Þou ssalt vor þin vnkundhede be out of al min munde.
c1390 Roberd of Cisyle (Vernon) (1930) 64 Kyng Robert lafte out of mynde.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 2226 (MED) Whanne he stod on dreie ground..He sette his trowthe al out of mynde.
c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 2390 Now dame..lat al passe out of mynde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 3196 (MED) Þi dede shal neuer of mynde go.
c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 43 Lest any thynge sholde be ouer-hippede and sette out of mynde.
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 30 (MED) Whan man is oute of siȝt, sone he passiþ oute of mynde.
a1525 Crying ane Playe 89 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 152 Ane thousand ȝere Is past fra mynd Sen I was generit of his kynd.
1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) sig. Dviv Oure Englyshe prouerbe..Out of syght, out of mynde.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Dd.iv As the watry showers delay the raging winde, So doth good hope clene put away dispayre out of my minde.
a1605 T. Hoccleve Complaint (Durh.) 80 in Minor Poems (1892) i. 98 Forgeten I was, all owte of mynde a-way.
1662 in R. W. Ambler et al. Farmers & Fishermen (1987) 156 Old hay... Corne upon the ground... Not seen and out of mind 6[d].
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 128 The Cavern-mouth alone was hard to find, Because the Path disus'd was out of mind.
1704 M. Henry Friendly Visits 16 Though they are out of sight they are not out of Mind.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 358 The good Man having made a very Christian Exhortation to me, not to let the Joy of my Reprieve, put the Remembrance of my past Sorrow out of my Mind.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. viii. 175 If they steek me up here, my friends are like eneugh to forget me—out o' sight out o' mind is a true proverb.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. iii. 87 But what now, Isaac? art dead? art stupefied? hath the payment of a thousand crowns put thy daughter's peril out of thy mind?
1878 H. James Watch & Ward vi. 112 Dear Roger, I have been extremely vexed and uneasy. I have fancied you were ill, or, worse,—that out of sight is out of mind.
1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner June 154/2 When a woman chose to be a mother, she allowed the child-longing to grow within her... When she did not so choose she put the whole thing out of her mind.
1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird (1963) ii. xxv. 243 He was not out of mind: I missed him.
1987 G. Keillor Leaving Home (1989) 120 When he left five children and a wife in the middle of the night..he was put out of mind and his name disappeared.
1991 Time 25 Nov. 72/1 Many Americans found it easy to put AIDS out of mind.
e. † (a) In various phrases (chiefly in legal contexts) with time, in relation to the idea of the period or extent of time that lies within reach of human memory (cf. time of memory n. at memory n. Phrases 4). Obsolete.Earliest in time of which no mind is; similarly time whereof no mind is to the contrary, etc. Now only in particular phrases as noted below.† (c) time of mind: the period of time within the reach of memory; = time of memory n. at memory n. Phrases 4. Similarly time of no mind. Obsolete.
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1343 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby (1879) I. 230 (MED) Of whilk rent ceruice..the aforsayd Abbote and Couent..war seysid of tyme of whilk no mynd es.
1425 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1425 §12. m. 2 Beyng erles, of tyme þat no mynde is þe contrarie.
1455 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 337/1 The olde liberte..enjoyed fro the tyme that no mynde is.
1516 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 107 Liberties..vsed the tyme wherof mannys mynde is not to the contrarie.
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xiiiiv By tytle of prescrypcyon, that is to say, fro tyme whereof is no mynde.
1641 Termes de la Ley 222 Prescription is when a man claimeth any thing, for that he, his ancestors, or predecessors,..have had, or used any thing all the time, whereof no mind is to the contrary.
(b) †out of mind: from time immemorial (obsolete); esp. in time out of (formerly also †a) mind: from a time or during a period beyond human memory; from time immemorial; (occasionally) for an inconceivably long future time, indefinitely. Also with preceding prepositions in same sense, as from time out of mind, since time out of mind, etc.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adverb] > from time immemorial
out of mind1387
immemorially1614
since Adam was a boy1722
1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 35 As out of mynde hath be vsed.
1416 in H. M. Flasdieck Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1926) 54 (MED) Wyche tenementes..ever haue be owte of myende.
1432 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 417/1 (MED) Tyme oute of mynde..there were wont many diverse Shippes..to come..yn to the saide Havenes.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 70 (MED) All his successours bin bounde fro time oute of minde for j yerdelonde.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 165 (MED) Þat blysse ffor to restore Whiche hath be lost fro oute of mende.
c1523 J. Rastell tr. Tenuris sig. A.iiiv Ye tenure in villenage shal make no fre man villeyn if it be not contynued syth tyme out of mynd.
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 460 Ther haue ben Chirchewardens..tyme out of mynde electyff yerely.
1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxiii. f. 193 My..slepinge body vnder toumbe, shall dreame time out of minde.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iv. 70 Grub, time out a mind, the Fairies Coatchmakers. View more context for this quotation
1623 T. Scott High-waies of God 12 To follow that faith which his forefathers professed time out of minde.
1703 Acct. Theatre of War in France 3 Time out of mind, the French have been distinguish'd into Langue d'Ouy, and Langue d'Oc.
1766 J. Cunningham Poems 144 Since time out of mind..Both [actors and Jews] lawless, alike, have been sentenc'd to wander.
a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 263 From time out of mind, this parish has been famous for its dances.
1898 G. W. E. Russell Coll. & Recoll. xxii. 292 A favourite theme of satirists time out of mind.
1923 G. C. Williamson Curious Survivals xvi. 244 In 1605 a charter of King James admitted that the City for time out of mind had exercised the conservation of the Thames.
1961 Times 28 July 11/4 Has it [sc. the tune ‘Chopsticks’] been handed on since time out of mind by generations of elder brothers and sisters on wet afternoons?
1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 May (Weekend section) 55 Her commentary..has been convulsing her descendants for 135 years. That it will continue to do so for time out of mind is partly because of [etc.].
2007 S. Sohmer Shakespeare for Wiser Sort iii. 34 Shakespeare's time-setting for Hamlet..has vexed commentators time out of mind.
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1414 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 58/1 By old tyme and sithe tyme of mynde.
1471 in J. Raine Corr., Inventories, Acct. Rolls, & Law Proc. Priory of Coldingham (1841) 222 The said celle and barony..wherof we and our praedecessourȝ have been peaseably possessid from tyme of mynde afor the said intrusion.
1504 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1903) I. 211 A greet Brigge..which all weyes withoute tyme of mynde hath be made..at there expens.
1515 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 93 Bying and sellyng frely within tyme of mynd.
c1523 J. Rastell tr. Tenuris sig. Aiiv Where you or your auncetours haue hold of me and myn auncetors after the tyme of no mynd.
c1525 ( in N. J. Byrne Great Parchm. Bk. Waterford (2007) 159 The nonpaying..during tyme of noo mynde.
1527 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 16 So hath been oute of tyme of mynd.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 591/1 This countray is nothyng so well inhabyted as it hath ben within tyme of mynde.
1553 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Court of Requests (1898) 196 Whether it grewe first..before tyme of mynde had.
1694 W. B. Heath's Maxims & Rules of Pleading iv. 83 If the Plaintiff give in Evidence a Deed within time of Mind, the Defendant may Demur upon the Evidence.
1730 W. Bohun Law of Tithes iv. 208 A Modus cannot begin at this Day, or within Time of Mind.
f. to bring to mind: to cause one to remember something or someone, recollect, recall; (of an object, circumstance, etc.) to suggest, to remind one of (some other object, etc.), esp. through similarity. Cf. to call to mind at call v. Phrases 3a.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > call to mind, recollect [verb (transitive)]
i-thenchec897
bethinkOE
mingOE
thinkOE
monelOE
umbethinkc1175
to draw (also take) into (or to) memorya1275
minc1330
record1340
revert1340
remembera1382
mindc1384
monishc1384
to bring to mindc1390
remenec1390
me meanetha1400
reducec1425
to call to mind1427
gaincall1434
pense1493
remord?1507
revocate1527
revive1531
cite1549
to call back1572
recall1579
to call to mind (also memory, remembrance)1583
to call to remembrance1583
revoke1586
reverse1590
submonish1591
recover1602
recordate1603
to call up1606
to fetch up1608
reconjure1611
collect1612
remind1615
recollect1631
rememorize1632
retrieve1644
think1671
reconnoitre1729
member1823
reminisce1829
rememorate1835
recomember1852
evoke1856
updraw1879
withcall1901
access1978
c1390 W. Hilton Expos. Qui habitat & Bonum Est (1954) 11 Ȝif þou be stured to pruide..bring to þi muynde þe mekenes of vre lord Iesu.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 17v He bringeþ oure synnes to mynde, þat we schame þerof.
1427 Rolls of Parl. IV. 326/2 We Lordes..calle to mynde howe yat in ye first Parlement [etc.].
a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) 381 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 420 (MED) The olde serpent..Brouht onto mynde his stat, his regalye Off tyme passid.
c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 925 (MED) A, lorde! now I brynge to mynde My horryble synnys and myn offens.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xvi. 65 Be not to pensyfe; call to mynde agayne How of one sorowe ye do now make twayne.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. I2v But when I call to minde I am a king, Me thinkes I should reuenge me of the wronges, That Mortimer and Isabel haue done.
a1605 R. Bannatyne Memorials Trans. Scotl. (1836) 275 Calling to mynd our former defectione.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iv. 13 Wheras a Proper Name bringeth to mind one thing onely; Universals recall any one of those many.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 43 These, and more than I to mind can bring.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. xi. 243 Upon which Adams presently calling him to mind, answered in a Rapture, ‘O Squire, are you there?’ View more context for this quotation
1796 R. Burns Auld Lang Syne i, in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 426 Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind?
1816 J. Austen Emma I. xii. 225 I should not attempt it..but if you call to mind exactly the present line of the path. View more context for this quotation
1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 18 July 495/1 Calling these things to mind as I stroll among the Banks.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped ix. 81 I cannae bring to mind the name of your landed estate, and so will make so bold as to call you David.
1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Oct. 267/2 I began to try to recall some text that did say so, and could not bring it to mind.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 116/4 The end of the room opposite the bar has a white wood dado which calls to mind in the nautical surroundings, the ship's rail.
1991 Renaissance Stud. 5 438 It is certainly not the Vitruvian Man such descriptions call to mind.
g. to put (a person) in mind: to remind (a person) of (something, etc.). Also with infinitive or subordinate clause.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > remind [phrase]
to put (a person) in minda1500
to put (something) into (also in) a person's head1539
refresh1542
to put (a person) in the head of1561
to jog the memory1778
to ring a bell1933
a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) 2356 That canne remembraunce put [MS but] hym in mynde In wat pleyte he ys broȝthte ynne.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 674/2 Within this syxe dayes I wyll put hym in mynde of his promesse.
1549 W. Paget in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. 258 We thought best to put you in mind of the confirmation and revisitation of the treaty.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1353/1 To put vs in mind how we violate the sabboth daie.
1607 S. Hieron Def. Ministers Reasons 46 I might put him in mind, that some learned men observe Mathew not to alleadge that testimony; but to report storie wise, how the Scribes did alleadge it to Herod.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 127 This being in Asia puts me in mind, That no part of the world is so subject to earthquakes as Asia is.
1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 30 Jan. (1948) I. 476 Stella used to do such tricks formerly; he put me in mind of her.
1750 J. Mayhew Disc. Submission 52 And while I am speaking of loyalty to our earthly Prince, suffer me just to put you in mind to be loyal also to the supreme ruler of the universe.
1758 G. G. Beekman Let. 23 Nov. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 332 If it is not done soon Please to put him in mind of it.
1786 H. Mackenzie Lounger No. 89. ⁋10 Putting him in mind where the toast stood.
1839 G. P. R. James Gentleman of Old School I. xii. 285 Pray..put my young friend, Ralph, in mind, that he promised me a visit this afternoon.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. iii. xxix. 269 You put me in mind of an old story.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. v. ii. 11 Jarvis, put me in mind to have these inexpressibles altered.
1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iii. 16 It puts me in mind ev the time wen the black fellers made the gins do all the work.
1952 C. MacKenzie Rival Monster iv. 51 They put him in mind of a hayrake they were so long and so fierce.
1987 L. Goldman Part of Fortune xii. 56 William didn't have much use for other folks' opinions. He puts me in mind of my mother that way.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun]
i-mindOE
mindc1175
imagination1340
memoriala1393
memorya1393
recordationa1398
remembrance?c1425
recollection1734
memory box1832
remembery1882
mnemotechnic1922
memory bank1952
the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > mind, soul, spirit, heart > [noun]
wombeOE
moodeOE
heartOE
inner manc1000
soulOE
ghostOE
sprite1340
inwit1382
consciencec1384
spiritc1384
minda1387
spirtc1415
esperite1477
inward man1526
pneuma1559
esprite1591
internala1594
interior1600
entelechy1603
inside1615
psyche1648
sprit1653
citta1853
undersoul1868
Geist1871
heart-mind1959
the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > subjectivity, relation to self > [noun] > system of subjective being
minda1387
c1175 ( Ælfric's Homily on Nativity of Christ (Bodl. 343) in A. O. Belfour 12th Cent. Homilies in MS Bodl. 343 (1909) 88 Þæt mynd, oððe þæt anȝit, oððe þe willæ beoð icwædene to summe þingæ edlesienlice.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17577 Sawle. & godd Sinndenn wiþþ utenn ende. & hafenn minde. & wille. & witt.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 191 Seneca..was so myȝty of mynde [?a1475 anon. tr. memory] þat he rehersed two þowsand names arewe by herte.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 774 His mynde es short when he oght thynkes.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 332 Meendfulle, or of good meende, memoriosus.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 150 (MED) Mynde by the whyche a man recordyth hym of thynges that byth Passid.
a1500 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1893) 90 298 (MED) Þe v goostly wyttis: Mynde, Vndirstandyng, Wylle, Reson, Ymaginacion.
3. That which is remembered, a memory; the memory or record of (a person or thing); (now only in Scottish) to have mind of; (formerly also in Scottish) †of good mind and variants: of fond (etc.) memory (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > something remembered
i-mindOE
minda1300
remembrance?c1400
membrance1650
recollection1652
reminiscence1750
souvenir1775
memento1796
memory1801
remembery1882
the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > being remembered
i-mindeOE
minda1300
memorance?a1425
memoryc1480
a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 113 (MED) Þe minde of þi passiun, suete ihesu..in herte sueteth.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 10844 (MED) Þulke ȝer ibore was..Sir simond de mounfort, of wan gret munde is.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 5 (MED) Besines of writers to oure vnkunnynge hadde i-holde and i-streyned mynde [L. memoriam] of olde dedes.
1445 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 33/2 Of gude mynde King James..fadir til our souerane lorde.
1489 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1887) X. 121 (note) The charter of umquhile owre grauntsir and faider of gud mynd quham God assoilze.
1500 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 210 King James the ferd of nobill mynd.
a1560 Fifteen Ois 16 in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 170 Haue mynd of all Thi bitternes..That Thou had.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 203 I had no mind I was married, my Bridal was so fectless.
1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs I. 70 The L—d's cause gat na sic a twissle Since I hae min'.
1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. ii. iii. 232 It's as weel I had mind of that, though.
a1869 C. Spence From Braes of Carse (1898) 70 My first mind is my mother's knee.
1929 J. Alexander Mains & Hilly 113 It's my langest min' o' ma fader buyin' a pair o' beets to ma in Sin Sairs.
1955 Galloway Gaz. 8 Oct. 2 Ha'e ye no' mind o' Nancy Whitterick?
a. The action or an act of commemorating; something which serves to commemorate; a commemoration, memorial, remembrance. Obsolete (historical in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun]
i-mindOE
mindc1300
commemorationc1384
meaninga1400
memorial?1471
recordance1490
mind-making1496
mindfulness1530
memorizing1600
recordancy1654
memorialization1862
the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > memorial
minginga1225
memory?c1225
mindc1300
memoriala1382
memoranda1400
memorativec1487
remembrativea1500
meaning1503
monument1531
commemorative1636
memoira1711
c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Laud) 73 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 433 (MED) Creoyce þare-with þi fore-heued and þi breoste..in þe muynde of me, And þe deuel ne schal habbe no pouwer for-to greui þe.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 71 (MED) It semeþ more probable, þat þat is i-write in mynde of Marius, kyng of Britouns.
a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) 196 Yn a memorand of hym with outyn ende, He seyd, ‘makeþ þys yn my mende’.
c1410 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Harl. 7334) (1885) 1906 Westward in þe mynde and in memory Of mars he haþ I-maked such an oþer [altar].
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Luke xxii. 19 Do ȝe this thing in mynde of me [c1384 E.V. in to my commemoracioun; L. in meam commemorationem].
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 5513 (MED) Nynus..an ymage dide make..And sette it vp for consolacioun, And for a mynde and a memorial.
a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) 769 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 390 (MED) He bilt a roial toun, Which stant ther yit for a manier mynde For his arryuaile into this Regioun.
c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) lxxxv. 69 Here bene the princis..In mynd of quhom ar maid the bukis newe.
1546 Wycklyffes Wycket sig. A.ixv The breade is the fygure or mynde of Chrystes bodye in earth.
1893 C. N. Stubbs Christ & Econ. I. 56 Such acts of commemoration expressing in modern form the old mediaeval obit or the general mynde when the names of the good doers were read out in Church.
b. spec. The commemoration of a deceased person on the date of the death or funeral in any month or year following, originally by a requiem mass, and (in later use) more usually by prayers. Subsequently only in month's mind n., twelvemonth('s) mind at twelvemonth n. 2, and year's mind n. See also mind-day n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > obsequies > commemorative ceremonies > [noun] > religious or mass
memory?c1225
soul massc1300
minda1325
requiem1389
obit1394
minninga1400
requiem massa1529
memorial service1858
ob1890
black mass1900
the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > solemn or religious remembrance
minda1325
obsequyc1385
wreath-laying1888
Remembrance Day1895
Veterans Day1912
silence1919
Poppy Day1921
Remembrance Sunday1925
moment of silence1942
a1325 St. Anastasia (Corpus Cambr.) 114 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 590 (MED) For me neseiþ bote a munde of hure atte middel masse.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 315 (MED) William the Rede..took his fader tresorie, and ȝaf moche for his fader mynde [v.r. munde; L. memoria].
1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 32 To..holde my Mynde euery ȝere duryng vij ȝere next folwyng after my desese.
a1428 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1836) III. 260 That xx s. be yeve..for holding of the mendys.
1486 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 11 In due fourme as to a yerely mynde perteyneth.
1526 in J. Strutt Horda Angel-Cynnan (1776) III. 172 For yerely obytes, and yerelye myndes.
1545–6 R. Field Will in R. Plomer Abstr. Wills Eng. Printers (1903) 50 Item I wyll there shalbe done for me at the daye of my buryall dyryge & x masses and at my mynde dyryge and five masses and at my yearsmynde other fyve masses.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 112 In the monethly minds and anniversary commemorations.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. 361 Upon the Anniversary, or the monethly, or weekly minds.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > mention or speak of
to speak of ——c825
sayOE
besayc1200
talk ofc1230
to make mention ofc1300
readc1300
yminnea1325
nevenc1330
to make mindc1350
toucha1375
famea1400
minta1400
clepec1400
rehearsec1405
recitec1436
reckonc1480
mentionatec1525
mention1530
to speak upon ——1535
name1542
repeatc1550
voice1597
commemorate1599
to speak on ——1600
notice1611
quote1612
to make vent ofa1616
memorate1623
mensh1928
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > mention
i-mindOE
minOE
mindc1350
minninga1400
touchc1400
mention1559
reference1591
mensh1973
the mind > language > speech > [noun] > commenting or mentioning > comment or remark
speechc1305
mindc1350
touchc1400
to make reporturec1475
observation1564
wipe1596
remark1629
propos1816
comment1850
by-the-way1896
trailer1941
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cx. 4 (MED) Our Lord piteful & merciful made minde of his wondres.
c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 132 Holychirche muynde of hit maas.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. ix. 121 (MED) Of such synful shrewes þe sauter maketh mynde.
c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 49 Ȝit thowh there was so moche nede, I fynde no mynde of furres or pilches.
a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) 765 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 427 Blyssid Fremund,—afforn heer put in mynde.
a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 1723 (MED) The bible makiþ no maner of mynde Wheþer þat pharao lay by hire oght.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 2506 (MED) Thanne came ther in..the men of higher ynd, Of whom before the story makith mend.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 191 Holy scrypture..makyth no mynde that he was vnobedyente [etc.].
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum 435 Berosus Caldeus maketh minde of that shippe in this manner.
II. Senses relating to thought.
* In uses expressing the action of thinking or the occurrence of a thought, idea, or intuition.
6. † a. The action or state of thinking; a thought process. Also: a thought; the thought of (something). Usually in to have mind of (also to have mind on, to have mind upon, or with subordinate clause): to think of, take heed of, have concern for; (occasionally with infinitive) to be careful (to). Occasionally also to take mind to (also upon). Cf. earlier i-mind n. Obsolete. rare (British regional in later use).Frequently used in Christian contexts for the care or concern shown for someone by God.† b. out of (also without) mind: more than one can calculate or comprehend. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > consciousness
wita1000
mindc1300
perceptiona1398
percipiency1662
feeling1734
consciousness1753
percipience1768
self-feeling1798
sentience1839
sentiencya1850
cœnaesthesisa1856
cœnaesthesia1885
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun]
i-mindOE
studyinglOE
mindc1300
bethinking1340
poring1340
regard1348
weighingc1380
contemplationc1390
advisementa1393
deliberationa1393
advicec1405
reckoninga1413
visement?1414
considerancec1420
advisenessc1425
revolutionc1425
rewardc1432
mind-takingc1449
umbethinkingc1450
advisednessc1475
considering1483
beholding1530
meditationa1535
pondering1535
cogitation?1542
expending1545
ponderation1556
perpending1558
well weighing1566
surview1576
reflex1593
revolve1595
lucubration1596
agitation1600
perpension1612
vizamenta1616
pensitation1623
perpensation1623
perpendment1667
ruminating1668
commentationa1670
revolving1670
reflectiona1674
introspectiona1676
propendencya1676
ponderment1728
chawing1845
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > think about, consider [verb (intransitive)]
thinkOE
thinkOE
bethinka1200
umthinka1300
to have mind ofc1300
casta1340
studya1375
delivera1382
to chew the cudc1384
to take advisementa1393
stema1400
compassc1400
advisec1405
deliberc1405
to make it wisec1405
to take deliberationc1405
enter?a1413
riddlec1426
hovec1440
devise?c1450
to study by (also in) oneself?c1450
considerc1460
porec1500
regard1523
deliberate1543
to put on one's thinking or considering cap1546
contemplate1560
consult1565
perpend1568
vise1568
to consider of1569
weigh1573
ruminate1574
dascanc1579
to lay to (one's) heart1588
pondera1593
debate1594
reflect1596
comment1597
perponder1599
revolvea1600
rumine1605
consider on, upon1606
to think twice1623
reflex1631
spell1645
ponderatea1652
to turn about1725
to cast a thought, a reflection upon1736
to wake over1771
incubatea1847
mull1857
fink1888
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 502 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 314 (MED) Heo hath Aungles cuynde And mai beo nouþe here and þer ase quik ase mannes muynde.
?c1350 in C. Hardwick Poem Times Edward II (1849) 34 And ȝet is ther non man That to God taketh mynde With ryȝte.
c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 908 Almyghty god, that saueth al mankynde, Haue on Custaunce and on hir child som mynde.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 5867 Pers, I haue mynde of þe.
a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 4997 Þat þei þat haue of him lest þought & mynde By þis peynture may ageyn him fynde.
?a1450 (?c1400) Lay Folks' Catech. (Lamb.) (1901) 39 Fyrst haue mende how god made heuyn and erthe.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 93 (MED) Þer was a bruther þat gretelie was turment with mynd of a womman þat he saw som tyme.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 226 Now mervelous mendys rennyn in myn rememberawns.
1493 Festivall (1515) (de Worde) f. 7 He shall fynde ye mynde of deth ye princypall salue of all manner synnes.
a1500 ( Vision E. Leversedge in Notes & Queries Somerset & Dorset (1905) 9 34 By that tyme..my myndes wer not so perfit myn awne as they were byfore.
1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Avi Haue minde therfore, thy selfe to hold Within the boundes of thy degre.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccijv Yt..they will haue some consideration, and mynde of hym [L. ut ipsius rationem habeant].
1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. E.4v Haue minde vpon thy mercy Lord.
c1605–6 J. Welsh Forty-eight Sel. Serm. (1771) 127 When thou hast mind of that eternity.
1638 A. Henderson Serm., Prayers & Pulpit Addresses (1867) 506 Our ill day may come upon us when we have but little mind of it.
1883 Reports Provinc., Devon (E.D.D.) 88 I've often had a mind upon they two men.
ΚΠ
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 3018 (MED) He had of men out of mynde many mayn hundreth.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 172 She wepte and made grete sorow oute of mynde.
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 79 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 60 There myght ys withouton mynd to mene.
c. to put in mind (also in a mind): to encourage, inspire, or provoke (a person) to follow a specified course of action.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)]
movec1325
occasion?1529
to put in mind1579
act1597
motive1657
actuate1736
motivate1863
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 19v He feared yt he should rather put men in mind to committ such offences.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Gen. xl. 14 Doe me this mercie: to put Pharao in mind that he take me out of this prison.
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xxiii. 250 She saw Hilda's tower rising before her, and was put in mind to climb up to the young girl's eyrie, and ask why she had broken her engagement at the church of the Capuchins.
1990 C. R. Johnson Middle Passage (1991) iv. 83 Really, when he talked like that, with a wink in his voice, it put me in a mind to clobber him.
7. Originally U.S. colloquial and regional (chiefly southern and south Midland). to pay mind and variants: to pay heed or attention (to someone or something); to care or worry. Frequently in negative contexts.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > [noun] > turning one's mind to
rewardingc1384
considering1483
inclination1509
consideration1548
animadversion1573
attendancya1600
notice-taking1614
mind1916
1916 Dial. Notes 4 269 I pay no mind to that.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xiii. 275 I aint never paid it no mind.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues 34 It was insulting, the way they paid the rules of the game no mind.
1967 P. Goodman Hawkweed 67 ‘The fire of fertile Brigit Is going out!’ the women keened, But I paid no mind as I inclined To the dogma of the Fiend.
1971 Black World Oct. 63/2 I don't pay her no mind.
1991 F. Buechner Telling Secrets i. 28 ‘Mind your own business’ means butt out of other people's lives..but it also means pay mind to your own life, your own health and wholeness.
8. U.S., Caribbean, and in African-American usage. A presentiment, an intuition; an idea or notion. Also one's mind: one's instincts.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun]
thoughtOE
thingOE
conceita1393
imagea1393
concept1479
conception1526
suppositiona1529
idee1542
idea1585
conceivement1599
project1600
representationa1602
notion1607
phantasma1620
conceptus1643
species1644
notice1654
revolution1675
representamen1677
vorstellung1807
brain-stuff1855
ideation1876
think1886
artefact1923
construct1933
mind1966
1966–70 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. (at cited word) (Qu. GG12, To have an inner feeling that something is about to happen: ‘There she comes now, I —— she would’.) Inf[ormant]s.., Had a (good) mind.
1971 G. Mitchell Blow my Blues Away 147 That first mind that come to me told me, don't you go anywhere tonight... But instead of me following my first mind, I let this fellow out-talk me to bring him to Boyle that night.
1976 in R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (1996) 259/2 If I did go with my mind I would not be here to blame for all this foolish nonsense, I would have keep my mouth shut.
1990 Advocate Mag. 25 July 4 She said that when she got over the hill ‘a mind told me to look back’, which she did, and she saw the accused walking up the hill behind her.
1991 P. Morgan High Tide in Caribbean 184 I had a mind I'd butt up with you here this evenin'.
1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage 237/1 You see if I had followed my mind, I would have stayed home and so stayed out of trouble.
1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (at cited word) When I felt the cold breeze last night, I had a mind it would rain today.
** In uses primarily expressing intention or wish.
9. Purpose or intention; desire or wish; spec. in the legal context of wills (cf. also sense 11b). Now only in phrases: see sense 10.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose
willeOE
highOE
thoughtOE
intent?c1225
achesounc1230
attenta1250
couragec1320
devicec1320
minda1325
studya1382
understanding1382
suggestionc1390
meaninga1393
i-minda1400
minta1400
tent1399
castc1400
ettlingc1400
affecta1425
advicec1425
intention1430
purposec1430
proposea1450
intendment1450
supposing?c1450
pretensionc1456
intellectionc1460
zeal1492
hest?a1513
minting?a1513
institute?1520
intendingc1525
mindfulness1530
cogitationa1538
fordrift1549
forecast1549
designing1566
tention1587
levela1591
intendiment1595
design1597
suppose1597
aim1598
regarda1616
idea1617
contemplationa1631
speculation1631
view1634
way of thinking1650
designation1658
tend1663
would1753
predetermination1764
will to art1920
a1325 St. Julian (Corpus Cambr.) 18 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 33 (MED) Ofte he hadde in munde Þat he ssolde fader & moder sle.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9544 (MED) Þo was it muche is munde To come & winne engelond.
Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 137 (MED) A man bounde to ertheli couetise lesith mynde to speke profitable truthe for iust men.
1480 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 59 I..by this my present testament..myne seyde mynde, wyll and entent..approue, ratifie, and conferme.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxxvi. 213 With hym went a varlet, who was priuy to his mynde.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 736 And þow Medea so mad, what myndes had þou þen?
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 125 God's mind was to astringe and bind the Church perpetually to it.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. iii. 1 Vnckle Marcus, since tis my Fathers minde, That I repaire to Rome I am content. View more context for this quotation
1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 6 Manie ill matters are vndertaken, and many good matters with ill mindes.
1656 in T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 302 To enquire with what mind this was done.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 452 Sudden mind arose In Adam, not to let th' occasion pass. View more context for this quotation
10. Phrases.† b. to fulfil one's mind (also to bring one's mind to pass): to accomplish one's purpose, satisfy one's desire. to have (also obtain) one's mind: to get what one wants. for one's mind's sake: in order to gratify one's whim. Obsolete.† c. by (also according to) the mind of (a person): by the direction of. Obsolete.
a. to be of (also in) (a) mind (now usually to be of a mind): to be disposed or minded, to purpose, desire (to do something); (occasionally) to be in great mind (also of good mind or in a good mind) (cf. sense 11). of mind: with purpose, or intending (to do something). to bring (also get, etc.) in mind: to persuade. to have (something) in mind: to intend, plan, or determine to do (something).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb]
willeOE
listc1200
to be of (also in) (a) minda1325
to will well that1340
likea1375
to find in one's hearta1393
to have a minda1400
pleasec1450
set1470
to have a mind1530
care1560
fadge1592
please1611
choose1622
offer1639
to feel like1808
the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > forgotten
out of memorya1275
of minda1325
out of mindc1325
forlainc1330
unrememberedc1425
oblivious1535
forgotten1600
unretained1666
unrecollected1733
unrecalled1742
buried1806
evanished1829
unmemoried1829
unrevived1877
spark out1882
a1325 [see sense 9].
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1254 Sire Meliager [was] in gret mynd a man out to sende To ser Alexander.
1505 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 102 We ar and ever was of gude mynde till do this gude tovne..plesour.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccli. 796 Wherof complayntes came to the heryng of the duke of Berrey, who was in mynde to remedy it.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 41/1 He secretly..caused the Quene to be perswaded and brought in the mynd, that it..shold be ieopardous, the king to come vp strong.
1563 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1875) III. 166 The said abbot wes of mynde to dispone..the kirk place [etc.].
1586 Let. Earle Leycester 13 Neither did I it of minde to circumvent her.
1599 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1884) 1st Ser. VI. 40 His Majestie being of gude mynd that the said Sir George be satisfeit of the saidis debursmentis, as ressone requyris.
a1617 P. Baynes Lectures 233 in Comm. First & Second Chapters Colossians (1634) Pharaoh [was] in a good minde, as wee say, to let the people goe.
1632 in R. S. France Thievely Lead Mines, 1629–35 (1951) 151 [They] would..have confederated..with Godfrey Mercer for his grove, haveinge gotten Casson in a mynde for his.
1661 C. Lyttelton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 24 I doe not find my brother of the mind he seemed at first to be of to buy it.
1764 H. Bostwick Let. 10 Dec. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) II. 953 The Indions Said they had maid peas but we was a mind to starve them.
1779 W. Cowper Hypocrisy Detected 12 They..set their wit at work to find What the prophet had in mind.
1814 Gonzanga ii. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre III. 113 Oh lud! if I can but get her in the mind to have me.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast vi. 49 The sail-maker was a Fin, and could do anything he was of a mind to.
1865 Harper's Mag. Oct. 674/2 If the Supreme Court was a mind to make a fool of itself, that was no reason that his court should.
1876 W. Minturn George Douglas (typescript) ii. i. 13 ‘I can eat all you're likely to kill in this campaign.’ ‘Then yeou may if you're a mind tew.’
1877 H. James American vii. 135 ‘I have something better in mind,’ he said; ‘come home with me and finish the evening before my fire.’
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xv. 358 The next morning Susan went shopping. She had it in mind to get the materials for a costume of a certain delicate shade of violet.
1949 H. Preece 6 Mar. in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) ii. iv. 340 Britt Bailey had a mighty fine property..and he was no mind to get out of Texas.
1965 B. Behan Confessions Irish Rebel (1967) 157 I wasn't in mind to be asking further.
1986 J. Nagenda Seasons of T. Tebo ii. iii. 64 We could all do it if we were of a mind to.
1996 Earth Matters Autumn 18/1 I've always been a scribbler—all my family were journalists, and I had in mind to be one, too.
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?1503–5 H. Watson tr. Valentine & Orson (1937) 142.3 I am redy and apparaylled to fulfyll your mynde & obeye to your commanndementes.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xvi. 75 Longynge ryght sore my mynde to fulfyll.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 499/1 It shall coste me a fall, but I wyll have my mynde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 865/1 For my myndes sake, pour satisfaire a ma phantasie.
1561 F. Coxe Short Treat. Wickednesse Magicall Sci. sig. Aviijv Then doeth he fulfill the mynd of the exsorcist, for oneles he hath it, he will neither doe, neither speake any thinge.
1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. N 2v And she as women wont will haue her minde.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. iv. §1. 585 This war he vndertooke as it were for his mindes sake: hauing receiued no iniurie.
1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 82 Because I see that thou dost so earnestly desire it, I will fulfil thy mind as well as I can.
1675 W. Dugdale Baronage Eng. I. 320/1 He..ordained, that..his Fathers mind should therein be fulfilled: and added five more Secular Priests in the stead of five Monks which had wont to be there.
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1523–4 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 322 Paid to the Orgon maker by þe mynde of Mr person for mendyng the Orgons, iij s iiij d.
1618 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 74 Item more they receyved which was given by William Ord, and lent to fower poore folk according to his minde, xl s.
d. to be of (occasionally in) many (also †divers) minds: to waver in purpose, to be indecisive. to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.): to vacillate, to be undecided.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]
haltc825
flecchec1300
waverc1315
flickerc1325
wag1387
swervea1400
floghter1521
stacker1526
to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530
wave1532
stagger1533
to hang in the wind1536
to waver as, like, with the wind1548
mammer1554
sway1563
dodge1568
erch1584
suspend1585
float1598
swag1608
hoverc1620
hesitate1623
vacillate1623
fluctuate1634
demur1641
balance1656
to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674
to stand shall I, shall I1674
to go shill-I shall-I1700
to stand at shilly-shally1700
to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734
whiffle1737
dilly-dally1740
to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751
oscillate1771
shilly-shally1782
dacker1817
librate1822
humdrum1825
swing1833
(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848
to back and fill1854
haver1866
wobble1867
shaffle1873
dicker1879
to be on the weigh-scales1886
waffle1894
to think twice1898
to teeter on the brink1902
dither1908
vagulate1918
pern1920
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > state of uncertainty, suspense > be in suspense [verb (intransitive)] > hesitate between alternatives
halt1382
dilemma1687
bedrift1837
pendulate1837
vacillate1841
to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1853
to be torn between1871
to play pendulum1893
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 428/1 I am of dyverse myndes, je me varie... I wolde be glad to deale with hym, but the man is of so dyverse myndes that there is no holde at hym.
1674 tr. N. Machiavelli Florentine Hist. ii. 29 The people were in many minds, some would needs fight as a thing that must one day be done, and therefore it was better to do it now.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 55 You'll never be mad, you are of so many Minds.
1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xxi. 203 I was in twenty Minds whether to take her first, and then catch the Chickens, or to let her go off, and then clap upon them.
1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xxv. 257 This missive (which I was in twenty minds at once about recalling, as soon as it was out of my hands).
1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xli. 417 I was in several minds how to dress myself on the important day.
1853 C. Dickens Child's Hist. Eng. II. xxii. 171 Jack [Cade]..was in two minds about fighting or accepting a pardon.
1881 E. D. Brickwood in Encycl. Brit. XII. 197/2 However bold the horse may be, he will soon refuse water if his rider be perpetually in two minds when approaching a brook.
1910 J. London Wit of Porportuk in Lost Face 238 When I came among you..I was of one mind. As I listened..I was of many minds. Now am I of one mind again.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 280 I'm on two minds not to give that fellow in charge for obstructing the thoroughfare with his brooms and ladders.
1952 M. Laski Village i. 13 I was in two minds whether to come or not.
1989 Business Traveller June 45/3 He considered the whole thing odd in the extreme and in fact was of two minds whether to believe me or not.
2000 Independent (Electronic ed.) 13 Feb. 24 The Labour Party has long been of two minds about devolution.
e. to know one's own mind: to form and adhere to a decision or purpose without vacillating; to be confident and decisive.to make up one's mind: see to make up one's mind at make v.1 Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > feel or be confident [verb (intransitive)]
wit1297
to know one's own mind1658
to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)1889
1658 H. Crompton Pierides 46 Surely these knowing times and you scarce find A man that rightly knoweth his own mind.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse iii. 47 Is it then so hard a Matter to decide? I thought all people had been acquainted with their own Bodies, though few People know their own minds.
1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. 14 I cannot approve of hasty Marriages, or before Persons are of sufficient Years to be supposed capable of knowing their own Minds.
1778 A. Murphy (title) Know your own Mind.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. xii. 270 The report..that the young Earl of Etherington..intended to pass an hour, or a day, or a week, as it might happen, (for his lordship could not be supposed to know his own mind,) at St Ronan's Well.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 26 And others laugh'd at her and Philip too, As simple folk that knew not their own minds.
1888 Poor Nellie 299 It is to be hoped he knows his own mind this time, and does not intend chopping and changing about again.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 609 Pretending to understand everything,..and in reality not knowing their own minds.
1935 Punch 10 Apr. 399/2 Say, she knew her own mind, did that Jane. A regular humdinger of a dame.
1991 Whole Earth Rev. Summer 29/3 By combining representative feedback with an informative documentary..a community can know its own mind with a high degree of accuracy on the key issues of the day.
11. to have a mind phr.† a. With a subordinate clause. To wish, desire, intend. Also in negative construction to have no mind. Obsolete.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 72v Forȝetful & vnkonnynge, he haþ no mynde þat he schal ȝeue to his lord acountes of his outrage.
1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces ii. 95 They had no mind that Her Ambassador should be present.
1705 W. Penn in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1872) X. 65 I believe he had no mind it should be done whilst I was there.
1732 H. Fielding Mock Doctor 5 Suppose I've a mind he should drub, Whose bones are they, Sir, he's to lick?
1750–2 Bible (Challoner) 2 Chron. xxix. 10 Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 138 Have ye a mind I should scour my knife between your ribs, as my mother says?
1845 R. Browning Flight of Duchess vi, in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 13/2 The Duke had a mind we should cut a figure.
b. With infinitive. To wish, desire, intend or be inclined (to do something). Now usually with premodifying adjective, most commonly to have a good (also great) mind: to be strongly disposed or inclined (to do something). to have half a mind: to have nearly made up one's mind (to do something). to have two minds: to be undecided (whether to do something) (cf. sense 10d). Similarly to have no mind (now somewhat archaic).The form I'm (also I've) a good mind (also half a mind, etc.) is still current in British and U.S. regional use.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb]
willeOE
listc1200
to be of (also in) (a) minda1325
to will well that1340
likea1375
to find in one's hearta1393
to have a minda1400
pleasec1450
set1470
to have a mind1530
care1560
fadge1592
please1611
choose1622
offer1639
to feel like1808
the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb] > strongly
goodeOE
to have a good (also great) minda1400
to have a gay mind1557
to have half a mind1726
a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 44 For the greet mynde that he hath to done his maystris wille.
a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 304 I haue a great mynd to be a lecherovs man.
1639 J. Shirley Ball iii. sig. D3v Harke you Mounsieur, this gentleman has a great Minde to learne to dance.
?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 392 Wh[itelocke] was importuned by his daughter Pryce..to come into Wales this Summer, & he had a good minde to it.
1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. (1667) 181 And now I have a mind to set up for a Maker of Hypotheses.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiii. 364 The Duke of Lorraine had a very good mind to get footing in Ireland.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World xvi. 452 They had half a mind to refuse me a passage.
1754 S. Johnson Let. 28 Nov. in Corr. (1995) i. 29 Would a letter give him any pleasure; I have a mind to write.
1819 Ld. Byron Let. 5 July (1976) VI. 176 I have half a mind to go back in search of La Fanchette.
1823 Ld. Byron Let. 28 Mar. (1980) X. 131 I had a great mind to send you his unpaid bills.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 26 It was lucky for us that we did not follow the nuptial procession (which we had more than half a mind to do).
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour ii. xii. 60 I'm a good mind to have his throat cut.
1858 Wilhelmina in T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. ii. 19 My Brother and I had all the mind in the world to laugh.
1870 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings 2nd Ser. 102 He had little mind to be a martyr, but he had still less a mind to be a knave.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) IV. xvii. 54 He had no mind to be a mere conqueror.
1879 T. H. Sayre Strategist (MS) ii. 22 The old man is feeble and rheumatic. I've a good mind to lick him, and get square with his son.
1882 Cent. Mag. July 341/1 ‘This one,’ he went on slowly, taking up a soft, blue merino, ‘I'm half a mind to put back in the drawer.’
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms II. xii. 205 We'd two minds to camp on the mountain.
1923 W. S. Maugham Our Betters ii. 111 I've got half a mind to get the people..to copy it.
1930 G. B. Johnson in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) iv. iii. 698 ‘I'm a good mind to whup you,’ says a Negro mother to her son.
1975 L. Gillen Return to Deepwater iv. 61 I'd a mind to show Miss McCourt the portrait, sir.
1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes (1997) viii. 221 I have a good mind to report you to Sister Rita.
c. With to and noun. †To have a favourable disposition towards (a person) (obsolete); to have a liking for (an occupation, task, etc.); to want, desire, wish to possess or obtain (something). Now somewhat archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb]
willeOE
listc1200
to be of (also in) (a) minda1325
to will well that1340
likea1375
to find in one's hearta1393
to have a minda1400
pleasec1450
set1470
to have a mind1530
care1560
fadge1592
please1611
choose1622
offer1639
to feel like1808
the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > have liking for [verb (transitive)]
loveOE
likea1200
to have a mind1530
affect1582
relish1600
fancy1616
adore1883
to have tickets on1908
fancify-
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 580/1 I have a mynde to one, I have a favoure to hym.
1605 London Prodigall i. ii I have a great mind to this gentleman in the way of Marriage.
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse i. ii. 29 in Wks. II They doe say, H'will meet a man (of himselfe) that has a mind to him. If hee would so, I haue a minde and a halfe for him.
1674 S. Butler Hudibras (new ed.) i. i. 14 That..Compound for Sins, they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.
1683 W. Temple Mem. in Wks. (1731) I. 457 I never had less mind to any Journey in my Life.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 145. ⁋6 There visits among us an old Batchelor whom each of us has a Mind to.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. ii. 31 In a few Days I was able to call for whatever I had a mind to.
1761 H. Walpole Let. 16 Apr. in Corr. (1941) X. 235 Have you a mind to some doe venison?
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lviii. 169 The blacksmith said to me the other day that his 'prentice had no mind to his trade.
1934 R. Macaulay Milton ii. 34 By this time Milton had no mind to the ministry; he wanted..to devote himself to literature and to poetry.
d. With for, †of. To wish for, desire.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [verb (transitive)]
willeOE
wilnec897
desirec1230
catcha1350
appetec1385
appetitec1385
to wait after ——1393
to set (also have, keep, turn) one's mind onc1450
list1545
exopt1548
to have a mind1553
desiderate1646
lust1653
to have eyes for1657
like1685
want1698
choose1766
to be stuck on1878
1553 tr. Erasmus Epist. Perswade Young Ientleman Mariage in T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 26 Thus we se plainelye, that suche a one as hathe no minde of Mariage, semeth to be no manne, but rather a Stone, an enemye to Nature, a rebel to God him selfe.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. v. 37 By Iacobs staffe I sweare I haue no minde of feasting forth to night: but I will goe. View more context for this quotation
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse i. ii. 29 in Wks. II They doe say, H'will meet a man (of himselfe) that has a mind to him. If hee would so, I haue a minde and a halfe for him.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. i. 12 To assist at tattering a kip, as the phrase was, when we had a mind for a frolic.
1775 S. Johnson Let. 8 Apr. (1992) II. 197 When shall I come down to you? I believe I can get away pretty early in May, if you have any mind of me.
1790 By-stander 134 When he has a mind of a little fun.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. iii. 442 Philip had no mind for a second collision with the papal court.
1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Jan. 45 We have no mind for a sousing.
1895 R. Kipling in Pall Mall Gaz. 30 May 2/2 You won't have no mind for slingers, not to-morrow—..bein' sick!
1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xi. 143 Mr. Wrenn was talking to an American who had a clipped mustache, brisk manners,..and a mind for duck-shooting, hardware-selling, and cigars.
1948 E. Waugh Loved One 78 You couldn't really get away from the war even there. The ladies didn't seem to have a mind for anything higher than pattern-bombing.
e.
(a) In relative and if-clauses with implied infinitive.
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1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. viii. 374 Without..restraining them from making Incursions where they had a mind.
1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 261 When they have dropp'd all [the wild Boars] that are dangerous, and as much as they have a mind, they open their Toils.
1826 W. Scott Let. 6 Feb. (1935) IX. 412 I have no idea of these things preventing a man from doing what he has a mind.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Let. 1 Aug. (1945) II. 413 Those who had a mind were free to repair to a magnificent neighboring saloon.
1874 G. J. Whyte-Melville Uncle John III. xxi. 22 They could..burn us out if they had a mind.
1994 Harpers Mag. July 41/1 The operator at the controls sees her and shouts down to git on over and git some, if she's a mind.
(b) With to representing an unexpressed infinitive (see to 21). The examples enclosed in square brackets are probably to be explained as instances of the idiom by which a preposition governing a relative expressed or understood is moved to the end of the sentence (cf. quots. 1674 at sense 11c, 1711 at sense 11c, 1711 at sense 11c). But the indefiniteness of the antecedent and the presence of a transitive verb in the sentence make it possible for the passages to be taken as anticipations of the modern colloquial practice, which may indeed have been partly developed from expressions of this kind.
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1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 519 Enquire what thou hast a mind to.
1734 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 2 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) II. 291 Amoretto was with difficulty prevailed upon to eat and drink as much as he had a mind to.
1744 E. Haywood Female Spectator (1748) No. 4. I. 189 As our sex has the privilege of saying whatever we have a mind to.]
1771 Trial Atticus before Justice Beau 14 Folks say he is a conjurer, and can tell any thing he's a mind to.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. ii. 28 I don't need to hire any of my hands out, unless I've a mind to.
1859 S. Smith My Thirty Years out of Senate (1860) 87 I s'pose a Governor has a right to flog anybody he's a mind to.
1871 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. 27 Mar. 282 You can call me when you are a-mind to.
1895 ‘Heatherbell’ in Sc. Antiquary 10 79 They..thought that they could deal as they had a mind to with his property.
1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men ii. 25 He said, Sure, of course, take all the snaps you've a mind to.
1986 U. Holden Tin Toys (1987) vi. 57 She was welcome to join his friends if she'd a mind to.
12. to change one's mind: to alter one's purpose, opinion, way of thinking, plans, etc.; also one's mind changes.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's mind [phrase]
to pick (also peck) mooda1225
to turn, wend the luff?c1225
to sing another song or a different tune1390
to waive (one's) wit1390
to change one's minda1500
to change (turn, alter) one's copy1523
to turn (one's) tippet1546
to change one's note1560
to shift hands1611
to face about1645
to change (swap) horses in midstream (while crossing a stream)1864
to sing another tune1890
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 732 (MED) Often tymes his mynde to & fro In new opinions he shalle change.
?1515 W. Harrington Commendations of Matrimony sig. A iii. v Yf so be that the sender of the letters do not chaunge theyr minde.
c1520 tr. Terence Andria ii. vi, in Terens in Eng. sig. Bv As it is to an honest man besemyng But now he must be weddid his mind is chaungid.
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 44 I haue changed my mind concerning the disease called the worme.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. ii. 96 If you shall send them word you will not come, Their mindes may change. View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 121 Cardinall Allan an Englishman, having used to persecute the English..had changed his mind, since the English had overthrowne the Spanish Navy.
1631 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. xix. 79 Do ye believe that our Lord will..rue of the bargain and change His mind?
1719 J. Allen in J. Duncombe Lett. Several Eminent Persons Deceased (1773) I. 214 I have lived to change my mind, and am almost of the contrary opinion.
1764 Dialogue Late Decl. & Remonstr. Back-inhabitants Pennsylvania 2 Three Parts of the City seem to approve of it, if their Minds don't change with the next Wind that blows.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Dora in Poems (new ed.) II. 35 It cannot be: my uncle's mind will change!
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius vi Her first impulse was to change her mind and not go after all.
1959 Times 11 Nov. 13/6 But it would be unrealistic to think that by huffing and puffing at him..the General can be made to change his mind.
1982 Daily Tel. 5 Oct. 15/1 He would not change his mind about excluding ‘wheelchair wounded’ from the Falklands victory parade.
1996 Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. i. 24/6 They are convinced that one last heave in the months before the election could force the Government to change its mind.
*** In uses primarily expressing inclination.
13.
a. Inclination, tendency, or way of thinking and feeling; (also, with modifying adjective) a specified kind of character, disposition, spirit, or temper. †to bear a —— mind: to entertain or maintain (the specified) sentiments or state of mind (obsolete).frame of mind, state of mind: see frame n. 20, state n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun]
heartOE
erda1000
moodOE
i-mindOE
i-cundeOE
costc1175
lundc1175
evena1200
kinda1225
custc1275
couragec1300
the manner ofc1300
qualityc1300
talentc1330
attemperancec1374
complexionc1386
dispositiona1387
propertyc1390
naturea1393
assay1393
inclinationa1398
gentlenessa1400
proprietya1400
habitudec1400
makingc1400
conditionc1405
habitc1405
conceitc1425
affecta1460
ingeny1477
engine1488
stomach?1510
mind?a1513
ingine1533
affection1534
vein1536
humour?1563
natural1564
facultyc1565
concept1566
frame1567
temperature1583
geniusa1586
bent1587
constitution1589
composition1597
character1600
tune1600
qualification1602
infusion1604
spirits1604
dispose1609
selfness1611
disposure1613
composurea1616
racea1616
tempera1616
crasisc1616
directiona1639
grain1641
turn1647
complexure1648
genie1653
make1674
personality1710
tonea1751
bearing1795
liver1800
make-up1821
temperament1821
naturalness1850
selfhood1854
Wesen1854
naturel1856
sit1857
fibre1864
character structure1873
mentality1895
mindset1909
psyche1910
where it's (he's, she's) at1967
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 259 Some [sc. beasts] beþ swiþe wraþþeful and angry & with stronge mynde, as þe hound, þe Camel, and þe asse.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 372 (MED) For as ye [sc. Mary] were clene in erthe of alle synnys greyn, so schul ye reyne in hefne clennest in mend.
a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 271 O mynd dissimilit, lord, I me confes.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. iijv Luther..reproueth his cruell and bloudy mynde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iii. 12 Feare not: he beares an honourable minde, And will not vse a woman lawlesly. View more context for this quotation
1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 21 To be willing to dye, and content to liue, is the mind of a strong Christian.
1680 T. Otway Orphan ii. 22 Who can hear this and bear an equal mind!
1729 G. Adams tr. Sophocles Antigone iv. i, in tr. Sophocles Trag. II. 61 Lead me home, that he may..know how to keep a stiller Tongue, and ever be of a better Mind than now he is.
1777 E. Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol 10 But the war is not ended: The hostile mind continues in full vigour.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 242 For manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature, and of noble mind.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. App. 649 He was then brought to a better mind by a rebuke from a Christian.
1980 D. Millman Way of Peaceful Warrior Introd. 30 You may, in fact, experience the mind of a warrior on occasion; resolute, flexible, clear, and free of doubt.
1998 K. Desai Hullabaloo in Guava Orchard (1999) xix. 166 They were dirtying him with their dirty minds.
b. The way in which a person feels, or the attitude a person has, towards another; disposition or intention towards others. †to bear good mind to: to be well disposed towards (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > favour > win favour with [verb (transitive)] > favour
to let well ofc1330
favour1340
to take, accept, receive in greec1374
likea1393
smilec1400
to take agreea1425
agreec1450
to fawn on, upon1477
to bear good mind toa1516
to look upon ——c1515
to look on ——1540
vouchsafe1582
conceit1589
relish1594
to look to ——1611
impatronize1629
aspect1663
sympathize1828
to put one's money on1847
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > state of feeling or mood > [noun] > towards another or others
stomach1476
minda1516
a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens ii. sig. e.iii v Go in hand with her anone..For to fele her mynde toward me.
1530 tr. Caesar Commentaryes x. f. xii Whome he had knowen & sene so specyally aboue other, to bere hys good myne [perh. read mynde] and fydelyte toward hym.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 449/2 I beare hym good mynde, je suis affectionné enuers luy.
a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) ii. 1929 Ye knowe very well she beareth the churche good mynde.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 707 The more number of the nobilitie, bare towarde king Henry..their good minds and fixed hartes.
1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. Ep. Ded. ⁋iij b Not doubting but your Lordship..will..vouchesafe to accepte this Monument of my affectionate minde.
c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 48 Wee understand..your true mind & faithful liegiance towards us.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. ii. 33 I would I knew his minde . View more context for this quotation
1693 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1973) IV. 272/1 I desire yow to wryt with the bearer how ye are and your mind to me.
1765 R. Cumberland Summer's Tale i. vii. 24 I am fit to think his old Honour does not bear an honest Mind towards her.
1822 J. Galt Provost xlvi. 342 Therefore, Mr. Peevie, would it no be a very proper thing, in the choice of the new counsellors, to take men of a friendly mind towards you.
1893 G. Gissing Odd Women II. iii. 66 You said that by making Miss Barfoot see she was wrong you could alter her mind towards me.
1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xv He spoke again, in wish to find out the swineherd's real mind towards him and if he would extend him longer hospitality there in the farm, or compel him city-wards.
14.
a. The direction or focus of a person's thoughts, desires, inclinations, or energies. In phrases, as one's mind is (also runs) on: one attends to, thinks of, is interested in, or is absorbed by. to set (also have, keep, turn) one's mind on: to desire to attain or accomplish, put or keep before one as an object of desire or as a goal; to concentrate on. to give (also put, set, turn) one's mind to: to concentrate one's attention on; to bend one's energies towards accomplishing or attaining (an objective).
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
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disposition1393
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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
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [verb (transitive)]
willeOE
wilnec897
desirec1230
catcha1350
appetec1385
appetitec1385
to wait after ——1393
to set (also have, keep, turn) one's mind onc1450
list1545
exopt1548
to have a mind1553
desiderate1646
lust1653
to have eyes for1657
like1685
want1698
choose1766
to be stuck on1878
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > engage in or busy oneself about > devote oneself to or take time for
takea1350
to give (also put, set, turn) one's mind toc1450
to give upa1616
to give into ——1692
invest1837
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 269 Ȝe behald me sa hogely, quare-on is ȝour mynde?
1475 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 484 My mynde is now nott most vppon bokys.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clxxiiv For a ryche man settynge theron his mynde Shal into heuen right hardly passage fynde.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 129 The kingis maiestie sett his haill care and mynd to invaide Ingland.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D3 Still his minde runs on his minion.
a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 793 His mynd is on his meate.
1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) iv. 105 The wolf..sent to school to learn to spell, could make nothing of all that was said to him but sheep. His mind still ran upon that.
1732 True & Faithful Narr. in J. Swift Misc. III. ii. 263 His mind was wholly turn'd upon Spiritual Matters.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 94 The landlord deliver'd this in a manner which instantly set my mind to the business I was upon.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. xv. 301 I've set my mind upon your joining the party.
1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xxxv. 357 Sordid and selfish as I knew it was..to let my mind run on my own distress so much.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 126 And since he kept his mind on one sole aim.
1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) vi. 254 But each of the sacraments must often have been deferred to a time when the candidates could give their whole minds to the subject.
1898 J. M. Falkner Moonfleet iii. 37 I had my mind on diamonds and all kinds of mammon.
1926 R. Lardner Who Dealt? ix. 217 I'll stop talking now and try and keep my mind on the game.
1955 D. Eden Darling Clementine xvii. 173 At first her mind had not been on Fergus.
1958 K. Amis I like it Here i. 18 There's plenty of time to play with and I'm sure we can get it all sorted out if we put our minds to it.
1971 P. G. Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves x. 104 When an aunt has set her mind on a thing, it's no use trying to put in a nolle prosequi.
1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 220/1 Was his mind on the time he was..almost given up for dead, at approximately the age of many of the flyboys who would later be running sorties from Dhahran?
b. to one's mind: according to one's wish, to one's taste or liking. Similarly †according to (also after) one's mind (obsolete). Now somewhat archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [phrase] > to one's taste
to one's minda1500
a1500 Sidrac & Bokkus (Lansd.) 3719 (MED) God made euery beest after his minde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 580/1 I have a person or a beest accordyng to my mynde, I have them in suche awe as I desyre.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. vii. 26 Yf thou haue a wife after thine owne mynde, forsake her not.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. iv. 6 Which had nether harnesse ner sweardes to their myndes.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. vi. 5) [Saul] grunts against himself because he [sc. God] handles him nat after his own mind.
1685 in J. G. Dunlop Dunlop Papers (1953) III. 18 Agnes Fergison..heath goten a master to her own myend.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. v. iv. 86 Those Gropers, who, to gather one according to their Mind, will spoil a hundred by the violent impression of their Unskillful Thumb.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 249 It was however, some Time before we could get a Ship to our Minds.
?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 92 in School of Arts (ed. 2) You may brighten it to your mind by the above mixture.
1847 A. Helps Friends in Council (1873) I. viii. 130 Commands are expected to be fulfilled..exactly to the mind of the person ordering.
1898 Dict. National Biogr. LVI. 21/2 Nothing was more to the mind of Nicholas.
1918 ‘B. MacNamara’ Valley of Squinting Windows 52 Ulick Shannon was finding the valley very little to his mind.
1966 R. Pitter Still by Choice 19 Seeing what that heat sees is not to my mind.
c. to take (also get, draw, etc.) one's mind off (from): to divert one's attention or turn one's thoughts from (something, esp. something worrying or painful).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > action of making pleasant > make pleasant [verb (transitive)] > pleasantly divert attention from
beguile1594
to take one's mind off from1672
wile1796
1672 French Rogue xxi. 133 But it was no time now to complain in such terms, and the present danger I was in, drew off my mind from such thoughts, to consult for my safety.
1788 M. Wollstonecraft Mary v. 34 There were many elegant amusements, that she had acquired a relish for, which might have taken her mind off from its most destructive bent.
1822 R. H. Dana Idle Man I. 79 The grief of his mother, and her imploring helplessness, took Thornton's mind off from its regrets and painful thoughts, while it softened his heart.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xii. 143 Well, it took my mind off from everything else; took it clear off.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out iv. 67 She was determined that Sir Walter should take her husband's mind off the guns of Britain, and divert him in an exquisite, quaint, sprightly, and slightly ridiculous world.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? iv. 70 I had a notion that a little of Billie and Sammy Glick might not be such a bad idea, if only to get my mind off my own tsurus.
1991 Atlantic June 87/1 The widow of the electrocuted man didn't even have children to take her mind off her loneliness.
15. State of thought and feeling; mood. Usually with respect to a specific characteristic, as peace or anxiety, sorrow or joy. Frequently in to set one's mind at ease.peace of mind: see peace n. 3b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] > state of mind
intentc1386
mindc1460
spiritc1480
head space1972
mind frame1982
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > state of feeling or mood > [noun]
moodOE
cheerc1225
affecta1398
statec1450
mindc1460
stomach1476
spiritc1480
humour1525
vein1577
frame1579
tune1600
tempera1628
transport1658
air1678
tift1717
disposition1726
spite1735
tonea1751
c1460 Abraham & Isaac in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 38 (MED) A, dere hert, wo is me therefore; My mynde is worse than evyr it was.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 169 Quho had all riches vnto Ynd, And wer not satefeit in mynd.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 674/2 He was never quyette in his mynde tyll I did put hym in a suertye.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 163 A turne or two, Ile walke To still my beating minde . View more context for this quotation
a1631 J. Donne Iuuenilia (1633) sig. D3 For our mind is heauy in our bodies afflictions.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1120 Not at rest or ease of Mind, They sate them down to weep. View more context for this quotation
1728 A. Ramsay Anacreontic on Love 32 He leugh and with unsonsy jest, Cry'd, ‘Nibour, I'm right blyth in mind.’
1750 Bible (Challoner) Dan. ii. 3 I saw a dream: and being troubled in mind I know not what I saw.
a1763 W. Shenstone Pastoral Ballad in Coll. Poems iv. 353 O how, with one trivial glance, Might she ruin the peace of my mind!
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxvi. 256 Meanwhile, Ralph walked to and fro in his little back-office, troubled in mind by what had just occurred.
1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers III. xiv. 242 A could wish as a'd learned write-of-hand,..for a've that for to tell Christopher as might set his mind at ease.
1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse I. i. i. 15 His leg had stopped hurting and left him pleasantly vacant of mind; in an easy, almost garrulous mood.
1958 J. Wain Contenders vi. 129 Robert could become..just another version of Ned, only more repulsive because of his greater pretensions. That ought to set Ned's mind at ease.
1990 D. Folster Chocolate Ganongs St. Stephen vii. 71 That ensured that any parents in the back concessions who might worry about their daughters succumbing to the blandishments of a seaport town could set their minds at ease.
**** In uses primarily expressing opinion or judgement.
16. That which a person thinks about something; a person's view, judgement, or opinion. Now chiefly in phrases at sense 17.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > [noun]
weenc888
doomc900
advicec1300
wonec1300
opiniona1325
sentence1340
sight1362
estimationc1374
witc1374
assent1377
judgementa1393
supposinga1393
mindc1400
reputationc1400
feelingc1425
suffrage1531
counta1535
existimation1535
consent1599
vote1606
deem1609
repute1610
judicaturea1631
estimate1637
measure1650
sentiment1675
account1703
sensation1795
think1835
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. 58 For alle are þei aliche longe..And to my mynde, as me þinketh, on o More þei growed.
1421 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 30/1 This indentur..beris wytnes that thai ar acordyt in this mynd eftir foluand.
c1450 (a1375) Octavian (Calig.) (1979) 888 The good wyf seyd: ‘Be seynt Denys, Swyche ys my mende’.
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 19 Preamble The seid Frensche Kyng..abydyng in his seid indurat & pervart opynyons & erronyous mynde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 680/1 I reason with one in a mater to fele his mynde in it.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. iv Such as could not be there present, he desyred to send their myndes in wrytinge.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 iii. ii. 17 Widow come some other time to know our mind.
1689 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 250 The Governor Desired Every Member of ye board would deliver his minde, and give him advice therein.
1706 A. Pope Let. 10 Apr. in Corr. (1956) I. 16 Pray let me know your mind in this, for I am utterly at a loss.
1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1790) II. lxv. 294 Would to heaven these doubters would keep their minds to themselves.
1807 Let. 2 Dec. in J. Constable Corr. (1962) 22 The most acceptable acknowledgement you can make her, is—at your perfect leisure and mind—to visit her, & give her a good sketch of her lovely darling boy.
1824 W. McVitie Tales II. 108 Keep your mind tae yoursel.
a1896 J. Slater Seaside Idylls (1898) 52 Weel, weel, than, I'm agreeable, but that's my mind.
17. Phrases.† d. against the mind of (a person): in opposition to a person's judgement, wish, or opinion; without a person's approbation or consent. Also without the mind of. Obsolete.
a. to my mind (also in my mind): in my judgement or opinion, as I think; also (occasionally) with the other possessive personal pronouns (cf. sense 14b).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > personal opinion > [adverb] > in my opinion
to (my) seemingc1386
to my supposinga1393
in my mindc1400
conceitc1405
in one's own conceit1483
in my fantasy1561
to my mind1600
in my seeming1604
in (also to) my conception1650
to my way of thinking1733
if you ask me1873
c1400 [see sense 16].
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 1357 (MED) Take no man therto But he be wagide..And that your wagis be to theire mynde Bettir then thei elswere can fynde.
1518 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 224 And yt hayd bene beste for me In my mynd.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 404 Anthonio, gratifie this gentleman, for in my mind you are much bound to him.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iv. 16 But to my minde..it is a custome More honourd in the breach, then the obseruance.
1663 A. Cowley Of Obscurity in Ess. in Verse & Prose It is, in my Mind, a very delightful Pastime.
1714 S. Centlivre Wonder ii. 15 Now in my Mind—I take Snuff with a very Jantee Air.
1754 S. Johnson Let. 16 July (1992) I. 81 My book..draws towards its end, but which I cannot finish to my mind without visiting the libraries of Oxford.
1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband III. 255 They then got into their carriage, a mighty flashy one, to my mind.
1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey (ed. 2) 501 The modern cestus,..is not, in my mind, an agreeable ornament.
a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xvi. 182 The other is but a loutish young fellow, to my mind.
1877 H. James American viii. 148 Your best chance for success will be precisely in being, to her mind, unusual, unexpected, original.
1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner July 185/2 Would you mind helping us by saying what, to your minds, are the worst qualities of this unique civilization of yours?
1941 J. C. Ransom New Crit. ii. 208 In my mind Dante's beliefs are very bold speculations at which the accusing finger has pointed steadily for a long time now.
1974 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Other Story x. 79 An eye should be kept on him, to my mind.
1992 New Republic 11 May 13/1 Refusing to impose punitive tariffs on a foreign producer is, to his mind, the equivalent of bankrolling foreigners.
b. to be of (also in) one (or a) mind and variants: to agree in judgement, purpose, or opinion; to be unanimous. with one mind: unanimously, with one accord.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > be in agreement [verb (intransitive)]
accord1340
cordc1380
to be condescendedc1386
to be consentedc1386
consenta1400
intend1421
onec1450
drawc1480
to be of (also in) one (or a) mind?1496
agreea1513
gree?a1513
to draw by one string1558
conspire1579
to meet witha1586
conclude1586
condog1592
consign1600
hit1608
centre1652
to be of (another's) mind1717
to go all the way (also the whole way) with1829
to sing the same song1846
?1496 in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1863) II. 67 If we hadde alle here ben of oone mynde in folowyng directly the Kinges mynde.
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) 87 With ane mynde thay did consent togidder Dauid to slay.
a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 38902 All in ane mynd and will.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 297 I would we were all of one minde, and one minde good. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 236 He and his Phisitions Are of a minde. View more context for this quotation
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 191 The three Spaniards were halfe of the same mind.
1686 J. Gowther Amicable Accommodation 2 Being so near of a mind, we have yet been so long clashing Quills, as Adversaries.
a1712 G. Granville Ess. Unnat. Flights Poetry in Poems 176 And, by the Tyrant's Murder, we may find That Cato and the Gods were of a Mind.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber ix. 179 Their Lovers are generally constant, simple Sighers, both of a Mind.
1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 133 Ye pulled together with one mind.
1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 136 A panel means twelve perplexed agriculturists, who..are starved till they are of one mind.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues III. 577 When men have anything to do in common, that they should be of one mind is a pleasant thing.
1877 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 70 Here they were, all of a mind, and all ready to start.
1933 D. Richardson in J. Gawsworth Ten Contemporaries 2nd Ser. ix. 196 Strangers impinging, the sense of a vast company of people by no means all of one mind.
1981 Dict. National Biogr. 1961–70 52/1 They were of one mind on the necessity of involving the United States in the defence of Western Europe.
1992 A. W. Eckert Sorrow in our Heart xi. 663 Then must you..pick up your hatchets to rise with one mind and one heart against those whites who have so defiled her.
c. to speak one's mind: to give one's judgement or opinion; esp. to express one's sentiments candidly or plainly, to speak freely. Also to open one's mind (now archaic). Similarly to tell (a person) one's mind, to let (a person) know one's mind: to let (a person) know one's judgement or opinion.a piece (also a bit) of one's mind: see piece n. Phrases 6, bit n.2 6a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > state or declare [verb (intransitive)] > one's opinion or position
opena1382
to show one's mind1492
to speak one's mindc1500
to speak (also give) one's sense1646
position1647
to declare for1669
explain1709
to come out1836
to go on record1867
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > personal opinion > express one's opinion [verb]
to speak one's mindc1500
to open one's budget1548
to speak (also give) one's sense1646
pronounce1801
to say (also speak) one's piece1822
c1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 5 (MED) Is tell yw my mynd, anes tayliur, dame; I deme we lak plesur.
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. nn.vv A mannes entent or mynde spoken by his owne mouth moueth more the herer than it were shewed & spoken by ony other.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 478/2 And I may catche hym ones, I shall tell hym more of my mynde.
1533 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 115 That we should freindly open our minds each to other.
1596 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 131 Lett me knowe yor minde eyther to denie me or ells to yelde to mee.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. iii. 75 Your betters haue indur'd me say my minde. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 59 Giue me leaue To speake my minde . View more context for this quotation
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. G2v 'Tis happy that some or other of this Few chances ever and anon to speak their minds out, to shew us plainly what they would be at.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 13 I have opened my mind unto you. View more context for this quotation
1702 R. Steele Funeral ii. 19 When I know her further than Skin-deep, I'll tell you more of my mind.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. ii. 221 When got to Sea, he opened his Mind to the Chiefs of his Equipage.
1765 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 239 My dogmaticalness is..a custom of coming to the point at once, and telling my mind flat and plain.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vii. 175 I let them know my mind in a manner that pretty effectually secures me from this ‘misery’, for the rest of that sitting.
1846 R. Browning Soul's Trag. in Bells & Pomegranates No. VIII i I've spoke my mind too fully out.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner xvi. 284 As it grew more and more easy to him to open his mind to Dolly Winthrop, he gradually communicated to her all he could describe of his early life.
1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars i. 42 Henry..spoke out his mind and showed that he was not too well-pleased.
1904 H. O. Sturgis Belchamber xix. 269 Your sarcasms will never prevent my speaking my mind.
1954 A. Thirkell What did it Mean? 74 As hostess and President she felt she ought not to have spoken her mind so freely.
1988 M. Seymour Ring of Conspirators iv. 110 The James children had always been encouraged to speak their minds freely.
1995 K. Ishiguro Unconsoled xxii. 327 If they annoy you so much, why don't you just speak your mind?
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1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 20 Preamble The said John..fortuned to be slayn..ayenst the will and mynde of your seid Beseecher.
1553 T. Becon Relikes of Rome (1563) 213 The Councell which is celebrated without the mynde and consent of the Romyshe Byshop.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. x. 151 Cassenius against the mind of all Anatomists draws its original from the Pinnæ of the Nose.
1698 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus I. iii. ix. 324 Themistocles..brought the Athenians back to their City, which they fortified, and added the Pyreum to it much against the Spartan's Mind.
?1747 E. Erskine in Princeton Rev. 7 (1835) 230 I see thirteen men of..the Associate Synod..carrying a matter by a thin meeting by a scrimp majority of four votes, not only against the mind of their brethren, but against the whole flock of Christ that have travelled the road to glory before us.
1804 J. Baillie Rayner iv. i, in Misc. Plays 91 I fear to die... For oh! it goes against the mind of man To be turned out from its warm wonted home, Ere yet one rent admits the winter's chill.
1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell ii. iv. 130 This fire in you Who chose him, being so young, of your own will, Against the mind of many, for your lord, Shall rather burn yourself than purge his mood.
e. to be of (rarely †in) mind and variants (with clause or modifying adjective): to hold the specified opinion. to be of (another's) mind: to be of the same way of thinking, or agree in opinion with (another person).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > form or hold an opinion [verb]
ween971
trowc1000
to be of (the) opinion (that)c1425
to be of (rarely in) mind1567
to take measure(s)1650
to take a fair (also wrong, etc.) measure ofa1797
the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > be in agreement [verb (intransitive)]
accord1340
cordc1380
to be condescendedc1386
to be consentedc1386
consenta1400
intend1421
onec1450
drawc1480
to be of (also in) one (or a) mind?1496
agreea1513
gree?a1513
to draw by one string1558
conspire1579
to meet witha1586
conclude1586
condog1592
consign1600
hit1608
centre1652
to be of (another's) mind1717
to go all the way (also the whole way) with1829
to sing the same song1846
1567 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 248 The nobility are of mind to suit assistance of the queen.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 66 b I am of this minde, that the making of rime shoulde not make a Poet use naughtie wordes.
1585 J. Stell in T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie Ep. Ded. Hee was alwaies of opinion and minde, that..learning, is not to be sought for in bookes.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. ii. 107 Sweete Yorke, sweete husband, be not of that mind. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 70 He sent me word, if I said his beard was not cut well, hee was in the minde it was. View more context for this quotation
1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation v. 210 Augustine was of mind, that councils, Bishops, &c. ought not to be objected for triall of controversies, but the holy scriptures onely.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 60 I am of the I[t]alians mind that said Nulla nuova, buona nuova, no newes good newes.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvii. 108 If these men are of the Mind, That they have clearer Ideas of infinite Duration, than of infinite Space.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 334 I don't doubt you'l be of my Mind.
1748 H. Purefoy Let. 28 Jan. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. iv. 80 She is much in the mind she could convince them yours is the better.
1840 R. W. Emerson Thoughts on Mod. Lit. in Uncoll. Prose 1147 Tempestuous storms, which though our meteorologists generally refer to natural causes, yet I am of Bodine's mind, they are more often caused by those aerial devils in their several quarters.
1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Apr. 242 I'm of Bradshawe's mind in the matter.
1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes vi. 74 But Kala was of a different mind.
1971 Shankar's Weekly (Delhi) 4 Apr. 5/4 Local communists had been watching with uneasiness..and were even of the mind that he should be denounced as a CIA spy.
1992 A. Thorpe Ulverton iii. 52 It is a loose, spongy ground, and Farmer Barr was of the mind that, were I to plough it up and sow it to one earth, as I had considered, I would have much trouble with the redweed, or poppy.
f. to have a mind of one's own and variants: to be independent in thought and speech; to be wilful and self-assertive; (also, of inanimate objects) to be wayward and uncontrollable, as if on purpose.
ΚΠ
1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. ii. vii. 215 I believe this is owing to their Ignorance; for as they have no Minds of their own, they have no Idea of others Sensations.
1867 A. Trollope Chron. Barset I. vii. 55 A weak, wishy-washy man, who had hardly any mind of his own to speak of.
1881 H. James Portrait of Lady III. iii. 40 The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his.
1957 J. Braine Room at Top (1960) 73 She'd think me an intelligent type with a mind of my own.
1976 A. White Long Silence ii. 19 You're not a Parlor dog, trained to bark when I ring a bell. You have a mind of your own.
1993 Guardian 18 Dec. 4/8 She had a mind of her own—she wasn't meek or mild. Not lippy, but a strong personality.
1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) xiii. 162 My attention was preoccupied with trying to turn off the back windscreen wiper, which seemed to have a mind of its own.
g. meeting of (the) minds: (a) Law mutual agreement; = consensus ad idem at consensus n. Additions; (b) agreement, accord, or rapport between two or more people; an instance of this; (c) concrete a meeting, discussion, forum, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement
forewardOE
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sacrament1563
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consortship1592
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combourgeoisie1602
convention1603
comburghership1606
transaction1611
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obligement1627
bare contract1641
stipulation1649
accompackmentc1650
rue-bargaina1657
concordat1683
minute1720
tacka1758
understanding1803
meet1804
it's a go1821
deal1863
whizz1869
stand-in1870
gentlemen's agreement1880
meeting of minds1883
1883 J. N. Pomeroy Treat. on Equity Jurispr. iii. 413 There is a mutual mistake—that is, where there has been a meeting of minds—an agreement actually entered into—but the contract, deed, settlement, or other settlement, or other instrument, in its written form, does not express what was really intended.
1939 Corpus Juris Secundum 17 359/2 A common intention, a meeting of the minds, on all terms thereof, is essential to an agreement.
1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings (1947) ii. 21 (heading) Meeting of the minds.
1969 D. Acheson Present at Creation (1970) xvii. 156 At the end of the two days no meeting of minds had occurred.
1987 L. Brown Law for Haulier 44 In short, there has to be no room for misunderstanding; there must be what lawyers call consensus ad idem or a meeting of minds.
1989 Independent 22 Dec. 19/4 Referring to the Prime Minister's meeting of minds with Mr Shevardnadze, the Foreign Secretary said ‘our interest is to keep the two systems’.
1991 Utne Reader July 138/1 (advt.) The WELL is a computer network. Right now you are just a few keystrokes away from this lively and open meeting of minds.
1991 Hot Press Nov. 7 With the meeting of minds and bodies under the auspices of the 1st Irish Lesbian and Gay Film Festival a whole plethora of issues were raised.
18. A number or amount (of something). Esp. in much (also mickle, great, etc.) mind. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > a quantity or amount
fother13..
minda1325
quantitya1325
bodya1500
qt.1640
volume1702
some deal1710
lot1789
chance1805
mess1809
grist1832
jag1834
mense1841
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3676 Fro lond ortigie cam a wind, And brogte turles michel mind.
c1390 (c1350) Proprium Sanctorum in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1888) 81 113 (MED) Heuene-kyngdom is lyk ȝut To a Net..þat of alle ffissches kuynde Gedereþ in to him muche muynde.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) i. f. 13 (MED) In a fo ȝers all þe kynde of folk wex þei mykell mynde.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 15680 Þorgh roten ayer & wikked wyndes, in alle stedes men died grete myndes.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1245 Slik a mynd vn-to me ware meruaill to reken. Thretti thousand in thede of thra men of armes.
a1500 (?a1400) Tale King Edward & Shepherd (Cambr.) (1930) 255 (MED) The scheperde hows ful mery stode Vndir a forest fayre and gode, Of hert and hynde gret mynde.
IV. Mental or psychic faculty.
19.
a.
(a) The seat of awareness, thought, volition, feeling, and memory; cognitive and emotional phenomena and powers considered as constituting a presiding influence; the mental faculty of a human being (esp. as regarded as being separate from the physical); (occasionally) this whole system as constituting a person's character or individuality.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > [noun]
wita1000
i-mindOE
mindc1350
common wita1398
advertencec1405
common sense1543
consciousness1678
conscious1852
the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > subjectivity, relation to self > [noun] > system of subjective being > subjective being, self
mindc1350
myself1526
selfhood1568
self1641
ipseity1659
subject1682
seity1709
I1710
ego1824
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 1 (MED) Sonderliche his man astoned In his owene mende, Wanne he note neuer wannes he comþe Ne wider he schel wende.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 4123 (MED) He [sc. the werwolf] has mannes munde more þan we boþe.
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 914 Thoghtes that ben enclosed in mannes mynde, whan he gooth to slepe.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 946 Moche sorwe hadde he in his mynde.
a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 997 Mynde, ee, and hand; non may fro othir flitte.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 480 She..told hym all that lay sore in hir mynd.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 430/2 I am wery for occupyeng of the mynde to moche.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. v. 124 This continuall course and manner of writing or speech sheweth the matter and disposition of the writers minde,..therefore there be that haue called stile, the image of man, (mentis character) for man is but his minde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. vi. 29 While other sports are tasking of their mindes . View more context for this quotation
1643 R. Baillie Let. 7 Dec. (1841) II. 109 While they stand, the scribe and others number them in their minde.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. ii. 5 No Proposition can be said to be in the Mind..which it was never yet conscious of.
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §31 Due care being had to keep the Body in Strength and Vigour, so that it may be able to obey and execute the Orders of the Mind.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 499. ¶3 This filled my Mind with such a huddle of Ideas, that..I fell into the following Dream.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 56 The good old monk was within six paces of us, as the idea of him cross'd my mind.
1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 352 No such thought had ever entered Reding's mind.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 258 Such an idea never crossed one of our minds.
1851 C. Wordsworth Mem. Wordsw. I. 81 His mind was filled with gloomy forebodings.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 6 Hardly a sentence is there which did not come forth alive from Voltaire's own mind.
1887 E. E. Money Little Dutch Maiden (1888) 56 Now, will you turn this over in your mind?
1913 R. Brooke in Blue Rev. July 150 Now that we've done our best and worst, and parted, I would fill my mind with thoughts that will not rend.
1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art vii. 126 This must be either his body,..or else it is something mental but unconscious, in which case the productive force is the artist's unconscious mind.
1951 S. Spender World within World ii. 58 In recollecting them I did not want to hold them word by word in my mind, in exactly the same form as when I read them.
1987 A. Aronson Shakespeare & Rembrandt xi. 115 Rembrandt's interest in and understanding of men's and women's minds in moments of uncontrolled passion was Shakespearean.
1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 8 I knew exactly how I was going to run it when the time came. I'd gone over it a million times in my mind.
(b) Esp. in contexts where a definition, summary, or analysis of this faculty is provided.
ΚΠ
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 116 (MED) Þe substaunce of þe ventriclis of þe brayn, of þe which mynde is maad.
a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 115 (MED) Reson & wille..ymaginacion & sensualite..alle þees foure miȝtes & þeire werkes mynde conteneþ & comprehendeþ in it-self.
1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xiii. 70 So the mind..varieth not by nature, but by use only, or diuersity of those thinges whereto it applieth it selfe: as the same facultie applied to differring thinges, discerneth: to thinges past, remembreth: to thinges future, foreseeth: of present thinges, determineth: and that which the eye doth by turning of the head..that doth the mind freely at once.
1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. iii. 133 By Mind I think we are properly to mean that power which both perceives and wills.
1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers i. ii. 42 We do not give the name of mind to thought, reason, or desire; but to that being which thinks, which reasons, which desires.
1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. viii. 293 The expression Mind designates the class of faculties. I divide it into two orders: into feelings (gemueth, in German) and intellect.
1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. iii. §8 Mind is the mysterious something which feels and thinks.
1846 G. Moore Power of Soul (ed. 3) 73 Unfortunately the word mind has been almost universally employed to signify both that which thinks, and the phenomena of thinking.
1896 E. B. Titchener Outl. Psychol. xv. 339 Mind, we said, is the sum total of mental processes during a lifetime.
1950 Times 14 Apr. 5/4 The one fundamental difference which can be established between minds and brains is that the former are in no circumstances edible.
1984 A. Smith Mind p. xvii The soul is an abstraction and the brain is an organ. To speak of the mind is to blend the two.
1987 Oxf. Compan. Mind 489/2 Mind is now considered to be a product of active processing of the flow of information working through elementary drives, or complex motives, set to single out important information about reality, relating bits of information and synthesizing them, and constructing plans and programmes of behaviour.
1990 Sciences July 46/1 In this view the mind is simply what the brain does; it emerges as an epiphenomenon.
b.
(a) one's mind's eye (in early use also the eye of the mind) [compare post-classical Latin oculus mentis (from 8th cent. in British sources)] : one's visual memory or imagination; recollection, contemplation. Frequently in one's mind's eye. Cf. also eye n.1 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > mental view
one's mind's eyec1390
prospect1528
vista1673
c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 552 It were with thilke eyen of his mynde, With whiche men seen, after that they been blynde.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 81 (MED) Entre is opynd in behaldynge of heuenly misterys to þe ee of his mynde.
a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 2895 (MED) Haue often [him] by-fore your myndes ye.
1577 H. Languet Let. in Corr. Sidney & Languet (1845) 126 What will not these golden mountains effect..which I dare say stand before your mind's eye day and night?
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 184 I see my father..in my mindes eye.
1749 D. Garrick Let. 3 Aug. (1963) I. 107 We were going the other Night in Imagination to Londesburgh, &..My Lady was very near Desiring to make it real, but..we were oblig'd to See It, only in the Mind's Eye.
1797 F. Burney Jrnl. 30 Oct. (1973) IV. 2 Not an Hour passes in which he is not present to my mind's Eye.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 414 I have..the little thatched cottages of Waltham Chase..in my mind's eye.
1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 320 One such scene is in my mind's eye at this moment.
1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 6 Seeing in his mind's eye the tired grey man.
1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman xxvi. 235 Their name did not evoke an image to him; neither to his mind's eye nor Isabel's did they appear.
2005 D. Cruickshank Around World in 80 Treasures 225 So, like much else in St Petersburg, the vision for the prospect is Peter's—he could see its noble vista in his mind's eye when all was still marsh.
(b) one's mind's ear: one's auditory imagination; the hearing of sounds (esp. music) which exist only in imagination or in the memory.
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1733 ‘P. Drake’ Grotto 5 The thinking Sculpture helps to raise Deep thoughts, the Genii of the place: To the minds ear, and inward sight, There silence speaks.
1775 F. Burney Jrnl. 6 Dec. (1889) II. 117 My mind's ear..was once more pleased.
1829 C. R. Maturin Melmoth III. xx. 352 She wished in this (to her) terrible emergency, to ask counsel of him whose image was ever present to her, and whose voice she heard with the mind's ear distinctly even in absence.
1884 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 19 510 We may, I think, be sure that some such region exists, that there is a mind's ear as well as the mind's eye.
1946 A. Hutchings in A. L. Bacharach Brit. Music xvi. 207 I do not think that, even now, Rubbra finds it easy to bring off the orchestration conceived in his mind's ear while writing his ‘short score’.
1977 Private Eye 13 May 11/2 In my mind's ear I related the word opera to operating theatre and then everything began to take shape.
1998 G. Delanty Hellbox 42 Even now In my mind's ear I hear your gusto, reviving Every cliché in the book.
c. Frequently in theistic (esp. Christian) contexts: transcendent intelligence, rationality, or being, esp. that seen as initiating or controlling the universe.Also the mind of God, frequently used to express that which is regarded as intangible or unknowable in the universe.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > [noun]
ghostOE
spiritc1350
minda1398
sprite?1440
intelligencea1456
esperite1477
intelligency1582
genio1590
geniusa1592
ethereal1610
spirituality1628
supernatural1660
jynx1662
duende1691
atua1769
nat1819
demon1822
Wandjina1938
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 104 And so þe firste world is euer lastinge & duringe in þouȝt & mynde of god.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum 367 There are so many seminall reasons of things in the world, as there be Idees or conceites in the divine minde.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 84 I had rather beleeue all the fables in the Legend, and the Alcaron, then that this vniuersall frame is without a minde.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) iv. 663 Men's knowledges have proper limits set, And should not prease into the mind of God.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. x. 318 That eternal infinite Mind, who made and governs all Things.
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 260 Just as absurd, to mourn the tasks or pains, The great directing Mind of All ordains.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 198 They only..Received the transcript of the eternal mind.
1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 153 Haunted for ever by the eternal mind . View more context for this quotation
1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) ix. 245 Behold, it [sc. the soul] saith, I am born into the great, the universal mind.
1897 H. N. Howard Footsteps Proserpine 41 As from the nebulous elemental sea, Wand-smitten by the Eternal Mind, Earth rose.
1971 T. Alexander 2150 AD (1976) I. Data Excerpts 323 This Macro viewpoint, in which the human soul and subconscious mind perceive its oneness with all minds (super-conscious, universal mind, macrocosm, of God).
1988 S. W. Hawking Brief Hist. of Time xi. 175 If we find the answer to that [sc. why it is that we and the universe exist], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.
d. In plural with modifying adjective: a group or category of people regarded as embodying the (specified) qualities of mind.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > collective consciousness > [noun]
mindsc1580
consciousness1718
c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxxiv. ix To humble broken minds, This Lord is ever, ever neare.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxvii. sig. H That I haue frequent binne with vnknown mindes . View more context for this quotation
1642 R. Lovelace To Althea from Prison iv Mindes innocent and quiet take That for an Hermitage.
1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. xxxv Some of the Portuguese courtiers, the same ungenerous minds perhaps who advised the rejection of Columbus because he was a foreigner.
1889 Ld. Tennyson To Mary Boyle ix Lowly minds were madden'd to the height By tonguester tricks.
1919 J. Conrad Arrow of Gold v. i It was like the mania of those disordered minds who spend their days hunting for a treasure.
1976 Daily Mirror 16 July 11/3 It is puny minds like this that help the ‘Free Wales’ brigade in their campaign.
1999 Independent 3 May ii. 5/2 The idea that some small little minds disapprove of our admittedly somewhat rackety existences is not something that we..find interesting or relevant.
e. The way of thinking, habit of thought, or consensus, of a specified group of people. Cf. sense n. 22b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > opinion held by group > [noun]
voice?a1400
received opinion1440
vote1562
sense1563
minda1586
opinion1598
breath1610
vogue1626
climate1661
received idea1697
mass mind1922
idée reçue1933
mythology1949
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) ii. f. 83 They (who thought they might do it, not onely willingly, because they loued him, and truely, because such indeed was the mind of the people, but safely because she who ruled the King was agreed thereto) accomplished her counsell.
1758 M. Akenside Ode to Bishop of Winchester in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems Several Hands VI. 27 What private force..Could a whole nation disengage From the dread bonds of many an age, And to new habits mould the public mind.
1786 S. Trimmer Œcon. Charity (1801) I. 151 The endeavours of infidels and seditionists to corrupt the public mind.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 13 In this age it was peculiarly easy to deceive, but difficult to enlighten, the public mind.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 206 If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order.
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) viii. 456 An impression had been made upon the popular mind which it was hardly possible to efface.
1883 Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 5/1 This cleavage of the religious mind of Europe into two extreme camps.
1920 W. McDougall Group Mind ii. 42 A proposition which voices the mind of the crowd..and so comes with the power of a mass-suggestion.
1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. of Art ii. 17 The philosophy of craft, in fact, was one of the greatest and most solid achievements of the Greek mind.
1942 G. Bennett in Observer 8 Mar. 7/3 The 1918 mind lost us Singapore.
1971 Scotsman 20 May 1/7 Mr Herron said he was not ruling the report out of order. ‘I want to take the mind of the Assembly on this.’
1987 C. Thubron Behind Wall i. 18 Western systems don't exactly work here. They don't fit our mind.
f. on one's mind: occupying one's thoughts, esp. so as to trouble them. Also †to hang (also lie, etc.) on one's mind.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > nervous or uneasy [phrase] > something occupying thoughts or causing anxiety
on one's minda1640
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Double Marriage iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeeee/2 But such a melancholy hangs on his mind, And in his eyes inhabit such sad shadowes.
1664 T. Killigrew 2nd Pt. Cicilia & Clorinda i. iii, in Comedies & Trag. 271 I know his crimes lye too heavy on his mind to listen to what I shall say of Love or Reason.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 104 I had now such a load on my Mind that it kept me perpetually waking.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 325 If you have any thing upon your Mind to say, let's have it.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) ix. 81 I am quite sorry that I live with you, when I see you with anything on your mind.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. vi. v. 108 I asked him if he had not anything on his mind.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 22 Annie, there is a thing upon my mind.
1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah ii. 38 The tweeded gentleman. (Coming in very slowly.) I have something on my mind.
1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman xxvi. 233 Isabel saw that Harold had something on his mind: he looked slightly portentous.
1973 K. Carter Roots in S. Henderson Understanding New Black Poetry iii. 312 Woke up dis Mornin' wid Jesus On my min. Oh, yes, lor' Jesus on my min.
1998 S. Faulks Charlotte Gray i. v. 45 Is there something on your mind, Miss Gray?.. You've appeared somewhat distracted over the last two or three days. I wondered if something was troubling you.
g. only (or all) in the mind: imaginary or illusory, with no basis in external reality.
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1676 Earl of Orrery Eng. Adventures i. 19 My Father..knew that happiness has its solid Throne only in the mind.
1732 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision (new ed.) §lxxvii, in Alciphron II. 288 All which visible Objects are only in the Mind; nor do they suggest ought external..otherwise than by habitual Connexion as Words do Things.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. xxvii. 248 I started, and even trembled. What I suffered there, was all in my mind.
1812 J. Baillie Dream ii. ii, in Series of Plays III. 132 Oh! they were terrible!—But they are All in my mind as the indistinct horrors of a Frenzied imagination.
1874 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel Logic §42. 75 That unity of self-consciousness,..Kant calls transcendental..; and he meant thereby that this unity was only in our minds, and did not attach to the objects apart from our knowledge of them.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 54/2 G. B. Riccioli concluded that they existed only in the minds of the observers, and were due to instrumental and personal errors.
1976 in M. Frayn Alphabet. Order i. 15 Well, it's all in the mind, isn't it? It's all up here.
1992 New Republic 13 Apr. 29/1 Vogel's surrogate heroine, Anna, undertakes that European journey—but it takes place only in her mind.
1998 New Scientist 20 June 5/1 The ‘green flash’ that watchers sometimes report at sunset is often all in the mind, a scientist from California reported last week.
h. As a mass noun: the mental entity or faculties, esp. as opposed to matter (see matter n.1 21). Cf. sense 19j.
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the mind > [noun] > as opposed to matter
sense1519
mind1745
spiritualism1834
1745 E. Young Consolation 112 And by the Mandate of whose awful Nod, All Regions, Revolutions, Fortunes, Fates, Of High, of Low, of Mind and Matter, roll Thro' the short Chanels of expiring Time..In absolute Subjection!
1796 Monthly Rev. 20 App. 569 Tracy read a paper [at the National Institute of France]..and proposed to call the philosophy of mind, ideology.
1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 143 It is remarkable that this man, who..saw the poetic construction of things, and the primary relation of mind to matter, remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression.
1879 W. L. Lindsay Mind in Lower Animals I. 51 Little is at present known of the phenomena of mind in the lowest classes of animals.
1898 J. R. Illingworth Divine Immanence i. §1. 4 Thus matter, as we know it, is everywhere and always fused with mind.
1919 Mind 28 58 The pluralist..recognizes that the fundamental fact from which the start must be made, is not a dualism of matter and mind, but the unity of the individual experience, which comprises a duality of subject and object.
1992 New Perspectives Q. Spring 10/1 The rational liberalism of the West wholly embraces the Cartesian world view that..recognized only the existence of mind and matter, leaving non-human life entirely out of the picture.
i.
(a) to open one's mind: to be willing to accept, to be receptive to; (hence) to open someone's mind.
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1748 J. Hervey Medit. (ed. 4) II. 100 Opening our minds to the Irradiations of his Wisdom.
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman v. 196 Would it not be a refinement on cruelty to open her mind only to make the darkness and misery of her fate visible?
1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson I. viii. 154 I hope thereby to open his [sc. the reader's] mind to a more adequate conception of the character of Philip Lindsay.
1910 W. Lippmann Open Mind 800 The professors couldn't prove it wasn't, so James was willing to open his mind to evidence.
1968 T. Wolfe Electric Kool-aid Acid Test v. 60 The whole other world that LSD opened your mind to.
1992 Face Apr. 15/2 Hopefully 3D graff will open people's minds to the fact that you can adapt graffiti to anything you want.
(b) to close one's mind: to be unreceptive to, to refuse to accept; to ignore.In quot. 1829 in figurative context.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)]
fordita800
forheedc1275
forget1297
to let out ofa1300
spele1338
to go beside ——a1382
waivec1400
remiss?a1425
to go by ——?c1450
misknowledge?a1475
misknow1483
misken1494
to go besides ——1530
to let pass1530
unregard1545
unmind1562
overlook1570
mislippen1581
suspend1581
omit1589
blanch1605
to blow off1631
disregard1641
to pass with ——1641
to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654
prescind1654
nihilify1656
proscribe1680
unnotice1776
ignore1795
to close one's mind1797
cushion1818
to leave out in the cold1839
overslaugh1846
unheed1847
to write off1861
to look through ——1894
scrub1943
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. iii. 95 I do not wilfully close my mind against examination, but am directed by proof and yield to conviction.
1829 T. Hood Dream Eugene Aram in Gem 1 110 O God, could I so close my mind, And clasp it with a clasp.
1876 F. Harrison Choice Bks. (1886) i. 2 To stuff our minds with what is simply trivial..is to close our minds to what is solid and enlarging.
1917 N.E.D. at Stop v. 8 a To atop (one's own or another's ear or ears). Also fig., to..refuse to listen, to close one's mind against arguments, etc.
1996 Kindred Spirit Summer 28/1 It is when we are feeling mean and misanthropic, when we have closed our minds to our own freedom and have set our faces against the world, that we objectify money.
j. mind over matter: (esp. of the mind's curative effect on bodily illness) mental and psychical control over, or influence on, physical phenomena; (also) the supposed ability to manipulate physical objects by psychokinesis. Also the triumph (also supremacy, etc.) of mind over matter. Cf. sense 19h.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [noun] > psychokinesis
mind over matter1808
telekinesis1890
psychokinesis1914
PK1943
1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife I. vii. 95 He would have selected those two instances as the triumph of mind over matter.
a1880 J. Brougham Capt. Cuttle (1884) iv. 15/2 There's wisdom!—there's a triumph of mind over matter.
1906 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Irish Yesterdays 89 The Mahatma maintained a Druid silence; it was not for him to comment on the eternal supremacy of Mind over Matter.
1943 Jrnl. Parapsychol. 7 20 The ‘psychokinetic’ or ‘PK’ effect..is colloquially called ‘mind over matter’, and means the direct influencing of a physical system by the action of a subject's effort, without any known intermediate energy or instrumentation.
1994 Daily Mirror 4 Oct. (TV Daily Suppl.) 4/6 Alternative methods of treatment involving mind over matter are investigated by medicine man Dr Rob Buckman.
k. the mind boggles: one becomes astonished or overwhelmed when trying to contemplate something, or at the prospect of contemplating something (cf. boggle v. 1).
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > wonder, be astonished [phrase]
to think wonder971
I have selcoutha1250
marvela1393
to have wondera1400
to have marvela1500
to give oneself wonderc1500
bewondereda1586
to think it wondera1586
estrange1658
to think (it) much1669
flabberdegasky1822
the mind boggles1899
1899 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 20 439 If the MSS, in attributing works to ancient authors, only furnish us with a thesis to prove, there is opened a vista of scepticism and material for dissertations at which the mind boggles.
1942 Econ. Jrnl. 52 281 The mind boggles at the thought of one after another of the statutory monopolies, after a similar survey, coming to similar conclusions.
1971 N.Z. Listener 16 Aug. 50/3 The mind boggles. The dreadful deeds the little monkeys might perpetrate. Tch tch.
1999 Machine Knitting Monthly Dec. 15/1 The mind boggles at the thought of knitting any intarsia design that requires 32 colours across a row!
l. to spring to (one's) mind: to occur immediately to a person; to be one's first or instinctive thought.
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1783 S. Johnson Let. 20 Aug. (1994) IV. 187 I read your last letter with great delight, but when I came to love and honour, what sprang in my Mind?—How lov'd, how honoured once, avails thee not.]
1910 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 21 14 Are they not just typical of the incidents which most readily spring to mind when we pronounce prediction impossible?
1939 J. S. Huxley ‘Race’ in Europe 28 Napoleon, Shakespeare, Einstein, Galileo—a dozen great names spring to mind.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ix. 153 When we talk about the fade, the first thing that springs to mind is the use to which it is put in dramatic productions.
1991 G. Carey I Believe xi. 74 Let me tell you of the images that spring to my mind when we talk about water.
m. British colloquial. a mind like a sink (also sewer, cesspool): an imagination that tends to put an indecent construction on events, or which is filled with lewd ideas and images. Also one's mind is (like) a sink (also sewer, cesspool).
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > indecent
a mind like a sink (also sewer, cesspool)1920
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > indecent [phrase] > indecent imagination
a mind like a sink (also sewer, cesspool)1920
1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 23 Mar. (1993) III. 255 Bunny talks as Ive never heard a prostitute talk—or a woman in a brothel. Her mind is a sink: shes sex mad.
1932 A. Christie Thirteen Probl. x. 170 And if one tries to warn them..they tell one that one has a Victorian mind—and that, they say, is like a sink.
1949 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite viii. 129 He concluded by saying it was a pity that some people, whose identity he did not specify, had minds like sinks.
a1966 M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) viii. 101 Norah, a toothy vixen..with a mind like a cesspool.
1970 S. Taylor Murder grows Roots ii. 16 [She] said he'd probably gone off with some woman. Her mind's like a sink.
1974 L. Deighton Spy Story xix. 208 Your mind is like a sewer, pal.
2000 Sunday Mirror (Electronic ed.) 1 Oct. For a million dollars would you sleep with an 89-year-old wheelchair-bound millionaire with wobbly dentures, wandering (liver-spotted) hands and a mind like a sewer?
20.
a. The healthy or normal condition of the mental faculties; mental balance; sanity. Now chiefly in phrases indicating (in negative contexts) the absence of rationality, as to lose one's mind, etc. Also formerly †past one's mind, (Scottish) †by one's mind: = out of one's mind at sense 20c.to be in one's right mind: see right adj. 8a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > mental health > [noun]
healthc1000
in witc1000
i-mindOE
mindc1380
reasonc1405
wit-state?c1450
common sense1536
sense1536
senses1540
soundness1548
sanitya1616
wisdoma1616
mental health?1650
saneness1727
mens sana1853
balance1856
lucidity1874
clear-headedness1882
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)]
dwelec900
wedec900
awedeeOE
starea1275
braidc1275
ravea1325
to be out of mindc1325
woodc1374
to lose one's mindc1380
madc1384
forgetc1385
to go out of one's minda1398
to wede (out) of, but wita1400
foolc1400
to go (also fall, run) mada1450
forcene1490
ragec1515
waltc1540
maddle?c1550
to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565
pass of wita1616
to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682
madden1704
to go (also be) off at the nail1721
distract1768
craze1818
to get a rat1890
to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896
(to have) bats in the belfryc1901
to have straws in one's hair1923
to take the bats1927
to go haywire1929
to go mental1930
to go troppo1941
to come apart1954
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 2584 (MED) Nad sche þer noȝt of hure bone fulich y-mad an ende, Or heo for hunger had forgone hir wit & ek hur mende.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 7074 (MED) He restored was To mynde ageyn, & ete no more no gras.
c1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess 511 He had wel nygh lost hys mynde.
c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 564 With that vois..My mynde cam to me ageyn.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxxiiiv Than lepe they about as folke past theyr mynde.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 353 Normond with this ansuer was halfe by his mynd.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxi. 60 I feare I am not in my perfect mind . View more context for this quotation
1659 E. Elys Divine Poems 16 On Thee I thought, and straight I lost my Minde!
1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. §8 in Wks. (1871) III. 306 By such as are in their right mind.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xix. 291 It hath been said, that a non compos himself, though he be afterwards brought to a right mind, shall not be permitted to allege his own insanity in order to avoid such grant.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 146 And still she fear'd that I should lose my mind.
1912 Church Q. Rev. 73 326 We will classify them all (idiots, imbeciles, or feeble-minded) under the name ‘Ament’, meaning people without mind in contrast to the class of Dement, which we will assume to mean all those who have been sane, but have lost their mind.
1960 Blackwood's Mag. July 71 No fielder in his right mind attempts a running catch.
1971 Jamaican Weekly Gleaner 3 Nov. 5/1 Mi dear Mam. Last week I got this bright idea that I would beg little time off and go get the mind together with the long weekend in Miami.
1993 B. Anderson All Nice Girls (1994) xii. 222 Her mind's gone but she's happy there.
1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State ii. 80 Good people I know lost their minds,..mainly through tripping.
b. In phrases, frequently in legal contexts (esp. in or concerning wills) or in imitation of legal use, expressing a declaration of a person's mental health: of sound (or unsound) mind, †in good mind, whole of mind, etc.
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Mark v. 15 Thei camen to Jhesu, and thei seen hym [sc. Legion]..sittynge clothid, and of hoole mynde.
1395 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 4 I, Alice West,..in hool estat of my body, and in good mynde beynge.
1402 Will in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 211 (MED) I John Girdeler of Harfeld, in god mynde and saf memorye, make my testement.
1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 30 Hole of mynde & in gode memorie beyng.
1430 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 85 Beyng in full mende.
1438–9 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 129 Beyng yn hole mynde & goode witte.
1451 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 149 (MED) I, dame Heleyn Gilson..hole in witt and mynde.
1469 in J. B. Clare Rec. Wenhaston & Bulcamp, Suffolk (1906) 30 I, Richard Pepyn of Wenyston, beying hool in my witt and clare mende make and ordeyne ys my last will.
1562 in Carte Monalium de Northberwic (1847) 86 The said Jhone being seik in bodye and haill in mynd.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 4 If I flatter not my selfe, I haue a whole minde within my crasie bodie.
1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 32 A debilitated Body, and unsound Mind.
1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xvi. p. cclxvii Just so long as his inability is supposed to continue: that is,..in the case of insanity, till he be of sound mind and understanding.
1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. App. 523 To prove that the said Nicholas was of unsound mind at the time of the said fine taken.
1826 W. Roberts Treat. Wills (ed. 3) I. 32 No person who is not of a reasonable mind and sane memory can make any disposition by will.
1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell ii. ix. 157 I am..unsure if I be whole of mind. I think I have been estranged from my right wits.
1884 Law Rep. 27 Chanc. Div. 119 The soundness or unsoundness of mind of the alleged lunatic.
1988 B. W. Aldiss Forgotten Life ix. 136 This is my life history, which I set down this 8th day of January 1987, being of sound mind more or less.
1999 Daily Tel. 27 July 5/5 [He] told him that the Miss Kay he had met was in sound mind and had made her will voluntarily and without any obvious pressure.
c. out of one's mind (also †out of mind) and variants: having lost control of one's mental faculties; insane, deranged, delirious. Now also in weakened use (with a preceding past participle): suffering from a particular condition to a very high degree, as stoned (also bombed, pissed, etc.) out of one's mind (slang): stupefied, extremely intoxicated, or incapacitated by drink or drugs. bored out of one's mind: beside oneself with boredom, etc.out of one's tiny mind: see tiny adj. d.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with
woodc725
woodsekc890
giddyc1000
out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000
witlessc1000
brainsickOE
amadc1225
lunaticc1290
madc1330
sickc1340
brain-wooda1375
out of one's minda1387
frenetica1398
fonda1400
formada1400
unwisea1400
brainc1400
unwholec1400
alienate?a1425
brainless1434
distract of one's wits1470
madfula1475
furious1475
distract1481
fro oneself1483
beside oneself1490
beside one's patience1490
dementa1500
red-wood?1507
extraught1509
misminded1509
peevish1523
bedlam-ripe1525
straughta1529
fanatic1533
bedlama1535
daft1540
unsounda1547
stark raving (also staring) mad1548
distraughted1572
insane1575
acrazeda1577
past oneself1576
frenzy1577
poll-mad1577
out of one's senses1580
maddeda1586
frenetical1588
distempered1593
distraught1597
crazed1599
diswitted1599
idle-headed1599
lymphatical1603
extract1608
madling1608
distracteda1616
informala1616
far gone1616
crazy1617
March mada1625
non compos mentis1628
brain-crazed1632
demented1632
crack-brained1634
arreptitiousa1641
dementate1640
dementated1650
brain-crackeda1652
insaniated1652
exsensed1654
bedlam-witteda1657
lymphatic1656
mad-like1679
dementative1685
non compos1699
beside one's gravity1716
hyte1720
lymphated1727
out of one's head1733
maddened1735
swivel-eyed1758
wrong1765
brainsickly1770
fatuous1773
derangedc1790
alienated1793
shake-brained1793
crack-headed1796
flighty1802
wowf1802
doitrified1808
phrenesiac1814
bedlamite1815
mad-braineda1822
fey1823
bedlamitish1824
skire1825
beside one's wits1827
as mad as a hatter1829
crazied1842
off one's head1842
bemadded1850
loco1852
off one's nut1858
off his chump1864
unsane1867
meshuga1868
non-sane1868
loony1872
bee-headed1879
off one's onion1881
off one's base1882
(to go) off one's dot1883
locoed1885
screwy1887
off one's rocker1890
balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891
meshuggener1892
nutty1892
buggy1893
bughouse1894
off one's pannikin1894
ratty1895
off one's trolley1896
batchy1898
twisted1900
batsc1901
batty1903
dippy1903
bugs1904
dingy1904
up the (also a) pole1904
nut1906
nuts1908
nutty as a fruitcake1911
bugged1920
potty1920
cuckoo1923
nutsy1923
puggled1923
blah1924
détraqué1925
doolally1925
off one's rocket1925
puggle1925
mental1927
phooey1927
crackers1928
squirrelly1928
over the edge1929
round the bend1929
lakes1934
ding-a-ling1935
wacky1935
screwball1936
dingbats1937
Asiatic1938
parlatic1941
troppo1941
up the creek1941
screwed-up1943
bonkers1945
psychological1952
out to lunch1955
starkers1956
off (one's) squiff1960
round the twist1960
yampy1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
out of one's skull1967
whacked out1969
batshit1971
woo-woo1971
nutso1973
out of (one's) gourd1977
wacko1977
off one's meds1986
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 421 (MED) He..sigh aboue a grisliche kynde, And fil anon out of his mynde.
c1390 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 494 He seith he kan no difference fynde Bitwix a man that is out of his mynde And a man which that is dronkelewe.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 4276 (MED) Almost for wo he went out of his mynde.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) lxix. 317 (MED) Þe maister of þe ship was halfe out of mynde.
a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Epist. First Chapter Paul to Ephesians (1618) viii. 208 Through phrenzie out of our right mindes.
1780 S. Lee Chapter of Accidents v. i. 82 It must be Bedlam; for the old gentleman is out of his mind, that's a sure thing!
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 663 He was drunk, they said, or out of his mind, when he was turned off.
1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. vii. 191 Miss Oldcastle thought she was out of her mind, and spoke of an asylum.
1948 T. Heggen Mister Roberts xi. 140 At night, awakening him from sleep, an object dropped on the deck overhead would send him nearly out of his mind with rage.
1964 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 Aug. 64/2 He was bombed out of his mind.
1968 Listener 28 Nov. 735/2 He would only be taken in charge if he was drunk: were he to spend his ten shillings on getting stoned out of his mind the police would happily accommodate him.
1984 B. MacLaverty Cal (new ed.) 95 When I saw matches being lit in that cottage I was terrified out of my mind.
1987 E. Newby Round Ireland in Low Gear x. 169 She was bored out of her mind, she said, by winter in Glengarriff.
1992 J. MacKenna Summer Girl in Fallen 62 Not when I'm pissed out of my mind.
1995 P. McCabe Dead School (1996) 175 ‘What do you think you're doing!’ he would yell at him. ‘Are you out of your mind?’
1999 I. Rankin Dead Souls xi. 67 The members of the public sat there with hands clasped between knees, or with heads angled to the ceiling, bored out of their minds.
21.
a. A person's cognitive, rational, or intellectual powers; the intellect; esp. as distinguished from the emotions, and frequently opposed to heart (cf. heart n. 9a). Also (in extended use, by metonymy): a person of intellectual prowess; an intellectual.At times, the association with heart has led to the acquisition by mind of some of the connotations of heart when the two are juxtaposed. See also heart n. 6b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > [noun]
hearteOE
moodeOE
wita1000
intention1340
mindc1384
intentc1386
ingeny1477
thinker1835
box1908
the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun]
i-witc888
anyitOE
witOE
thoughtOE
inwitc1305
intention1340
mindc1384
understandingc1384
intentc1386
intelligencec1390
intellecta1398
minda1398
understanda1400
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ingeny1477
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mind-sight1587
intellectual1598
notion1604
intelligency1663
mental1676
nous1678
grasp1683
thinker1835
Geist1871
noesis1881
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun]
anyitOE
eyesightc1175
sightc1175
sentimentc1374
mindc1384
intentc1386
fantasyc1400
savoura1425
spiritsc1450
perceiverancea1500
perceiverationa1500
senses1528
perceivance1534
sense1553
kenc1560
mind-sight1587
knowledge1590
fancy1593
animadversion1596
cognition1651
awaring1674
perception1678
scan1838
apperception1848
perceivedness1871
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxii. 37 Thou shalt loue the Lord thi God, of al thin herte, and in al thi soule, and in al thi mynde.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iv. 673 She..hadde hire herte and al hire mynde On Troilus iset.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxx. xii It was no wonder that I was amazed, My herte and minde she had so tane in cure.
1562 in J. Stuart Sel. Rec. Kirk Aberdeen (1846) 5 With the haill man, saull, hart, mynd, mycht and stryncht.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. xi. 18 Put these my wordes in your hartes and mindes.
1622 H. Sydenham Serm. (1626) 30 God doth concurre to the excæcation and hardening both of the minde and heart.
c1639 A. Cowley On Death of Sir H. Wotton He did the utmost Bounds of Knowledge find, He found them not so large as was his Mind.
1697 J. Locke Let. 10 Apr. in Wks. (1714) III. 561 Even the largest Minds have but narrow Swallows.
1733 J. Swift Epist. to Lady 6 I shall..with Books my Mind embellish.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xxxi. 129 But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!
1785 F. Pilon Fair Amer. (front matter) But great minds can descend with ease, from the dignity of their spheres, to the contemplation of the most minute objects.
1806 H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow I. 51 Every feeling of his heart and mind revolted from what he heard.
1819 Lady Charleville in Lady Morgan Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 254 Lady Crewe..had mind and heart, and indeed some fine remains of a race that has passed away.
1863 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. VII. 74 The service of God was asserted to be a reasonable service of the mind and heart, and not a magical superstition.
1951 N. Mitford Blessing xi. 118 If you don't empty your mind and heart of sexual jealousy..you will never be happy with me.
1968 A. K. Armah Beautyful Ones are not yet Born vi. 85 In response to her look my mind and heart opened themselves up to the pain of deep feeling.
1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 454 Here we are in Sri Lanka hanging out with one of the great minds of the second half of the twentieth century.
1999 New Yorker 18 Oct. 210/2 The consulting firms have figured out how to win over the hearts and minds of..twenty-one-year-olds.
b. spec. Intellectual quality, keenness of intellect, mental power; frequently in man of mind.absence of mind, presence of mind: see absence n. 3, presence of mind n. at presence n. Phrases 4.
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the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun]
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anyitOE
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notion1604
intelligency1663
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nous1678
grasp1683
thinker1835
Geist1871
noesis1881
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xlii. 1191 Þese bestes han witte and mynde passynge oþere bestes.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xliv. 79 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 37 His eye of deepest minde Deeper sincks then deepest working.
1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth 26 Put on the mind that men of mind becomes.
1806 T. Jefferson Let. 5 July in Writings (1984) 1165 The imputation was one of those artifices used to despoil an adversary of his most effectual arms; and men of mind will place themselves above a gabble of this order.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. x. 144 Blue eyes, lit up by a smile of such mind and meaning!
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud i. vii, in Maud & Other Poems 4 But these are the days of advance, the works of the men of mind.
1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire iv. 46 The Papacy..under the guidance of her greatest minds, of Hildebrand, of Alexander [etc.].
1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City iii You mean there can be no mind in an imitation.
1926 W. S. Bruce Salt & Sense viii. 64 The men of money are supposed to be above the men of mind. That ranking is entirely wrong.
1988 M. Brodsky X in Paris 165 For a moment I feared he might be envious of the Activity, devirulizing or not, taking place circumambiently, in which case he was no longer any man of mind.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking p. x Lastly,..to Kate Newlin, who spent many of her weeknights and weekends contributing her clear, keen mind, marketing prowess, astounding strategic thinking, and her heart.
c. Proverb. great minds think alike.
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1728 J. Oldmixon Bouhours' Arts Logick & Rhetorick 125 Great Minds often think alike on the same Occasions.
1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 27 Dec. 813 But Mamma Mullein had for her consolation the adage that great minds think alike.
1922 Punch 27 Dec. 601 Lord Riddell considers that Mr. H. G. Wells is one of the world's greatest minds. Great minds, as the saying is, think alike.
1950 S. Truss Never 194 Great minds think alike.
1991 J. Cairney Worlds Apart 241 ‘Great minds think alike,’ she said as if she'd invented the aphorism. Mrs Beattie nodded, ‘Ay.’ she said, ‘fools seldom differ!’
Compounds
C1.
a. † mind-malady n. Obsolete† mind parts n. Obsolete rare
mind-conditioning n.
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1945 R. A. Knox God & Atom ix. 131 There is a steady policy, all over eastern Europe, of anti-religious mind-conditioning.
1990 Health Now Nov. 3/1 Clearly mind conditioning through knowledge and experience has given many people great faith in orthodox doctors and surgeons.
mind-content n.
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1918 Mind 27 307 Dr. Bosanquet means (I think) that reality is ‘in the mind’ in its fulness and completeness, and the more so the completer is it—we have mind grasping a fuller real, and reality elevated (as it were) into mind-content.
1936 H. Mulder Cognition & Volition in Lang. 163 The intellectual components of a mind-content.
mind control n.
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1940 N. R. Jones in Astonishing Stories Aug. 46/1 The robots..were operated entirely by the mind control of the Aemts.
1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk i. 33 No, Claude, he only teaches thought control. Mind control is a different matter.
1978 J. O'Neill Land under Eng. Introd. 6 Their techniques of education and mind-control have become developed to the point where they can read another's thoughts.
1986 D. Koontz Strangers i. ii. 208 Intelligence organizations are not the only groups who're familiar with mind-control techniques. So are some crackpot religious cults, fanatical political fringe groups.
mind-dependence n.
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1916 Mind 25 311 This union of ideal and of idea, of value and mind-dependence is probably requiste for any form of idealism.
1952 Philos. Rev. 61 102 In each point of view there is an ‘irreducible medium’—in idealism, ‘mind-dependence’ of the object of knowledge and, in realism, ‘mind-independence’ of the object of knowledge.
1994 Philos. Q. 44 378 Mohanty discusses the central place in Indian thought of the idea of mind dependence and the foundational nature of consciousness.
mind-doctor n.
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1885 J. G. Whittier Prose Wks. (1889) II. 314 Jacob Perkins, in drawing out diseases with his metallic tractors, was quite as successful as modern ‘faith and mind’ doctors.]
1890 W. James in Scribner's Mag. Mar. 372 Simple commands were fruitless; but M. Janet at last hit upon an artifice, which shows how many resources the successful mind-doctor must possess.
1940 Mind 49 352 It is a book worth reading..because of her power to look afresh at what is done and what should be done by the mind-doctor.
1998 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 14 Sept. They [sc. a rugby team] admit to twin crises of confidence and identity, so a mind-doctor seems to be a greater priority than a new chief coach.
mind-event n.
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1936 W. H. Auden Look, Stranger! 37 Every tramp's a landlord really In mind-events.
1982 P. C. Birkinshaw in UCT Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) Oct. 47 The influence referred to came from Europe, and is the Cartesian separation of language as a mind-event from speech as a body-event.
mind-force n.
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1861 J. B. Dalgairns Holy Communion i. 13 It is hard to say whether we know not more of mind-force..than of the strange aggregate of wondrous forces which we call matter.
1937 R. A. Wilson Birth of Lang. 82 The life-force, or mind-force..works within the sensuous material of the world.
1991 Callaloo 14 499 Set in seventeenth-century Africa, eighteenth-century New York, and nineteenth-century Louisiana, this book is the struggle between Doro, a mindforce, and Anyanwu, a shape-shifter.
mind-hunger n.
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1883 Overland Monthly Dec. 636 Then the lunch bell rang, and mind-hunger was set aside for body-hunger.
1941 V. Woolf Between Acts 22 No one ventured so long a journey, without staving off possible mind-hunger, without buying a book on a bookstall.
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1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience iv. 25 There is such a gulfe of disproportion betwixt a Mind-malady and Body-medicines.
1894 Harper's Mag. May 833 Every now and again..the pangs of Little Billee's miserable mind-malady would shoot through him like poisoned arrows.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Ll5 Thinking perchaunce her feeling sence might call her mind partes vnto her.
mind-physician n.
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1833 J. S. Mill Let. 9 Mar. (1910) I. 38 So my case must be left to nature, I fear: there is no mind-physician who can prescribe for me, not even you, who could help whosoever is helpable.
1968 Punch 2 Oct. 475/1 ‘But,’ some critic's sure to say, ‘This desire for amorous play In laboratory conditions Now is thought by mind-physicians To be just a new perversion Vitiating each assertion Based upon the normalcy Of your abnormality.’
mind-picture n.
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1841 R. W. Emerson in Dial Oct. 273 His, unlike those of most poets, are eye-pictures, not mind-pictures.
1945 R. Knox God & Atom ix. 117 We are dealing..with mind-pictures.
1993 A. Gay Brooch of Azure Midnight (BNC) Mind-picture: her mother, towering from a toddler's perception, changing a story-cube for her daughters.
mind-searching n.
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1940 W. S. Churchill Into Battle (1941) 229 Untiring vigilance and mind-searching must be devoted to the subject.
1959 Brno Stud. in Eng. 1 128 That Gissing had considerable mind-searchings over this incident we cannot doubt.
mind-wandering n.
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1858 J. Hollingshead in Househ. Words 10 July 79/1 The mind wanderings of poor Esther Barnard were of great importance in making out a case against him.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xi. 417 This reflex and passive character of the attention..never is overcome in some people, whose work, to the end of life, gets done in the interstices of their mind-wandering.
1925 C. Fox Educ. Psychol. 335 Simply as a result of mind-wandering due to extraneous incentives or impulses of some other kinds of activity.
1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 35 The present situation, the one he was in right now, that was what he was to examine; nay mind wanderings.
mind-world n.
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1861 F. Browne in Chambers's Jrnl. 4 May 283/1 Yet over the prison-house at times, Great thoughts and voices go, That wake with the mind-world's mighty chimes, Their buried life below.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. vi. 154 Somewhere, then, there is a transformation... The question is, Where—in the nerve world or in the mind-world?
1951 W. de la Mare Winged Chariot 44 The world without; the mind-world in our head.
1988 Callaloo 35 393 The mind-world wherein the novel must be concretized is one of myth/reality, magic/not-so-magic structures of containment (castles, closets, huts), and heroic/anti-heroic exploits.
b. † mind-enchanting adj. Obsolete† mind-mudding adj. Obsolete rare† mind-perplexing adj. Obsolete rare† mind-sick adj. Obsolete† mind-stricken adj. Obsolete† mind-torturing adj. Obsolete rare† mind-wearing adj. Obsolete rare
mind-altering adj.
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1961 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 21 Feb. a7 The scientist conceded that chemical counter-agents conceivably could be produced to nullify the effects of the mind-altering chemicals.
1999 A. Arensberg Incubus iv. x. 110 Had she..taken mind-altering drugs that could repeat without warning.
mind-changing adj.
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1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 116 What strange humor or mind-changing opinion tooke you this morning?
1956 A. Huxley Let. 14 Mar. (1969) 791 Soma, in India, was taken only by the priests... I dare say some of the tropical takers of mind-changing stuff may have hit upon the Indian device independently.
1973 Houston Chron. 14 Oct. (Texas Mag.) 4/1 PDAP defines mind-changing chemicals as alcohol, all narcotics, marijuana and such organics as peyote, i.e., anything inducted into the body to alter the mind.
1995 Melody Maker 25 Mar. 37/3 From the deliriously Duck Dunn bass-led ‘One Step Ahead’ to the proudly plush Velvets of ‘She Passes By’.., ‘Slipstream’ is a mind-changing, heart-warming delight.
mind-constructed adj.
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1930 J. Laird Knowl., Belief & Opinion xii. 284 By a mentefact, I mean that which is mind-constructed.
1940 Mind 49 428 The word as an element in language is a very special kind of fact,..as a thought-thing or mind-constructed thing.
1975 Philos. Rev. 84 605 The world which we believe to exist and which we come to ‘know’ through scientific investigation is a mind-constructed world.
mind-dependent adj.
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1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iv. v. 365 Time was when I would have changed with the poor mind-dependent Indiana!
1881 A. C. Fraser Life Berkeley i. iii. 32 It is an argument for the phenomenal, and therefore mind-dependent, nature of the material world.
1927 Aristotelian Soc. Suppl. Vol. 7 56 Even if sense-data and images, or presentations, are taken to be existentially and qualitatively mind-dependent, to ‘inspect’ them will plainly be a process very different from that of noticing or scrutinizing mental operations.
1994 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 54 400 There is one sense in which reality is mind-dependent, i.e. reality as we understand it is intrinsically imbued with the categories of the mental.
mind-destroying adj.
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1854 W. H. C. Hosmer Murdered Czar in Poet. Wks. II. 131 In vain the mind-destroying bowl Was brought his anguish to allay, No draught will ever from his soul The stain of murder wash away.
1886 R. B. Haldane & J. Kemp tr. A. Schopenhauer World as Will & Idea II. 211 A mere juggling with words, of which the most shocking example is afforded us by the mind-destroying Hegelism.
1993 A. Toffler & H. Toffler War & Anti-war xxv. 251 Work, until now brutalizing and mind-destroying for most of those lucky enough to hold a job, can be transformed into something fulfilling and mind-enhancing.
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 340 The invention of them [sc. passages out of the Holy Bible] was..very fitly aplied to the defence of this goodly and mind-inchanting science [sc. the search for the Philosophers' stone].
1651 W. Denny Shepherd's Holiday in W. C. Hazlitt Inedited Poet. Misc. (1870) 3 Our shame-fac't embers kindle modest fire, Which mind-enchanting songs do quickly turn To rising flames.
mind-infected adj.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. ix. sig. F6v These fantasticall mind-infected people, that children & Musitians cal Louers.
1939 R. Pitter Spirit Watches 32 Could but one thought arise within That greatly-sculptured skull..Well might it be for all these millions Mind-infected, mother-betrayed.
mind-made adj.
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1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) xxiii. 391 The bard would tell How the soul stands with God, and the unseen Realities round us all; our angel kin, And spheres of heavenly life; the mind-made world, Without, within.
1924 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 5 306 These men saw life, society and government clearly and simply. Society and government were plastic, mind-made, man-made; there were no obstacles to reason.
1985 ELH 52 489 The mind-made relations which T. H. Green had defined as the hallmark of the real are shown to be as incurably contradictory as Kant's paralogisms, hence indeterminate and unreal.
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1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. G4v To chase away Mind-mudding mist.
mind-numbing adj.
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1898 F. Hird Cry of Children (ed. 2) ii. 22 The existence of this mind-numbing slavery is only proved by careful examination into individual cases.
1971 Guardian 28 Jan. 11/3 The cost of the gesture could be of mind-numbing proportions.
1998 Newsweek 4 May 30/2 The mind-numbing routine of sitting at the phone, ‘call sheets’ before him, hustling money.
mind-opening adj.
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1875 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 47 I thought of the strange mind-opening and knowledge-gaining of those years to youths brought up in the strict seclusion of the community.]
1966 T. Leary Politics of Ecstasy iii. 57 There exist in nature hundreds of botanical species with psychedelic (‘mind-opening’) powers.
1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Oct. 5 (advt.) A remarkable, mind-opening book.
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1631 F. Quarles Hist. Samson §2 8 In whose eares she brake This mind-perplexing secret.
mind-ravishing adj.
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1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 10 I for-sooke all my immortall pleasures, and mind-rauishing melody.
1999 Hindu (Electronic ed.) 2 July I have seen your mind-ravishing form, O Lord!
mind-searching adj.
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1972 MLN 87 657 A kind of search, with implications for memory and the mind, seems fitting for so mind-searching a poet as Valéry was.
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1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. i. 138/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Although manie curious mindsicke persons vtterlie condemne it as superstitious.
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Douce 170) (1888) i. ix. 139 The drowsie sonn (morn's mind sicke murner) rose.
1838 Southern Literary Messenger 4 597 The mind-sick and restless monk resolved to carry his doubts to the very centre of faith.
mind-stretching adj.
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1956 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 21 101 It is this mind-stretching quality of the book which makes it particularly valuable.
1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 Oct. 7 (advt.) One of the most mind-stretching and inspirational books I've read in a long time.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. viii. sig. S7v This noble-man..had bene so mind-striken by the beautie of vertue in that noble King.
1825 W. Tennant John Baliol I. v. 22 My lady all mind-stricken with a dream!
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1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iii. xciv. sig. Q4v O thou mind-tortring misery Restles ambition, borne in discontent.
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1794 F. Burney Jrnl. 2 May (1973) III. 59 I cannot comprehend how you find time or strength for what overwhelmed me.., without any family toils, or mind-wearing difficulties.
mind-weary adj.
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1900 Atlantic Monthly July 125/2 He repeats the blunders of the original compositors, even..a workman, mind-weary perhaps at the close of the day, has twice gone wrong on a terminal and transsexed Leonato into Leonata.
1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter xiii. 264 But—I am tired! Foot-weary as well as mind-weary.
c.
mind-numbingly adv.
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1982 Guardian Weekly 28 Feb. 7 Flowing from those decisions there is already talk of breaking the ABM treaty to embark on the mindnumbingly expensive task of developing anti-missile missiles, a course that would drastically shift the current uneasy balance between the super-powers.
1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 58/1 I'm mind-numbingly tired of reading, in article after article..about celebrities who ‘shun the Hollywood scene’.
C2. † mind hill n. Obsolete rare a burial mound or cairn.† mind-making n. Obsolete rare commemoration.† mind place n. Obsolete rare a shrine or place of pilgrimage commemorating a saint.† mind-taking n. Obsolete rare consideration (upon a matter).† mind token n. Obsolete rare a memorial.
mind candy n. slang (originally and chiefly North American) something which is entertaining but not intellectually demanding (cf. ear candy n. at ear n.1 Compounds 2, eye candy n. at eye n.1 Compounds 4).
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1978 Newsweek (Nexis) 6 Nov. 104 Spelling toils like a fiend to turn out what he unashamedly calls ‘mind candy’. He awakes at 6.30 a.m. to phone New York for the ratings.
1993 SFRA Rev. Jan. 108 This book is mind candy, nothing heavy.
mind-changer n. (a) a person who changes his or her mind; (b) a psychedelic drug.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > hallucinogenic drug
delirifacient1842
deliriant1858
delirant1872
mind-expander1875
mind-changer1931
phantastica1931
hallucinogen1954
hallucinant1964
utopiate1964
mind-bender1967
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > [noun] > one who changes opinion
wheeler1836
poacher turned gamekeeper1891
mind-changer1931
gamekeeper turned poacher1978
1931 Punch 4 Nov. 494/2 Things and opinions change so quickly in these days that no one is going to crow over a graceful mind-changer.
1958 A. Huxley in Sat. Evening Post 18 Oct. 110/3 Within a few years there will probably be dozens of powerful but—physiologically and socially speaking—very inexpensive mind-changers on the market.
1965 Listener 23 Sept. 465/1 It is a powerful mind-changer of the hallucinogenic variety.
1986 Public Opinion Q. 50 225 This error component may be thought of as the net effect of all those uncorrected-for not-homes, nonvoters, undecideds, and mind-changers, plus some random sampling errors.
mind-child n. a child's imaginary playmate.
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1928 Daily Express 8 Dec. 4 The imaginative child should be dealt with carefully. Foster his little plays and the mind-child he has created.
mind cure n. the supposed curing of a disease by the mental powers of the healer (frequently attributive).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > non-scientific treatments > [noun] > treatment by psychical influence
mind-healing1826
psychopathy1851
mind cure1855
phrenopathy1855
psychotherapeutics1872
mental healing1885
suggestion1887
psychotherapy1892
psychotherapeutica1901
1855 Asylum Jrnl. No. 11. 161/2 Mind-cure institutions are not often painted by their late inmates in such uniformly roseate colors, as the water-cure institutions.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience iv. 94 A current..has recently poured over America..to which..I will give the title of the ‘Mind-cure movement’.
1984 D. Cupitt Sea of Faith vi. 157 They are of what used to be called the ‘mind-cure’ type that seeks to relieve guilt and anxiety and to promote personal integration and a heightened self-awareness.
1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 17 May 43/2 Prominent among the late 19th-century ancestors of the recovery movement were the notion of ‘mind cure’ and the New Thought and Christian Science movements.
mind-curer n. (a) a person who practises mind cure; (b) a person who cures diseases of the mind.
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > psychiatrist
mad-doctor1697
head-doctor1850
mind-curer1856
psychiater1857
alienist1864
psychopath1864
psychiatrist1869
mind-curist1889
trick-cyclist1897
soul doctor1922
loony-doctor1925
witch doctor1930
psych1946
headshrinker1950
wig-picker1961
shrink1966
shrinker1967
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > alternative practitioner > [noun] > using mind power
mind-curer1856
mental healer1885
suggestionist1896
mind-healer1905
psychotherapeutist1905
psychic surgeon1975
1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. ix. 427 Dr. May, mind-curer, as well as body-curer.
1886 J. M. Buckley in Cent. Mag. June 234/1 In comparison with the Mormons, Spiritualists, Mind-curers , Roman Catholics, and Magnetizers, the Protestant Faith-Healers can accomplish as much, but no more.
1913 Q. Rev. Jan. 145 Such is the conclusion of a mind-curer on rational lines.
1971 Amer. Q. 23 140 James admired the mind-curers because he assumed that, in spite of their defect of urging a conscious denial of sickness, evil and death, they emphasized ‘a form of regeneration by relaxing’.
mind-curist n. = mind-curer n. (a).
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > psychiatrist
mad-doctor1697
head-doctor1850
mind-curer1856
psychiater1857
alienist1864
psychopath1864
psychiatrist1869
mind-curist1889
trick-cyclist1897
soul doctor1922
loony-doctor1925
witch doctor1930
psych1946
headshrinker1950
wig-picker1961
shrink1966
shrinker1967
1889 Harper's Mag. Nov. 968/2 This was beyond the reach of the Mind-Curists.
1904 Amer. Jrnl. Relig. Psychol. & Educ. May 80 That kind of giving up, of relaxation, which the Mind-Curist, the Christian Scientist, and the Hypnotizer..attempt to bring about.
1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Dec. 1315/2 The same curiosity about the unconventional led to..a spirited defence of faith-healers, Christian Scientists and ‘mind-curists’.
mind-day n. the day, usually the anniversary itself, on which a person's death is commemorated; = minning day n. at minning n. Compounds.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > commemorative ceremonies > [noun] > religious or mass > day of anniversary
i-mind-dayeOE
min-day?c1225
mind-dayc1390
minning day1426
minning date1556
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxxi. 374 [Bishop Eadberht] het ðæt hie þæt dydon ðy dæge, þe his gemynddæg wære and his forðfor.]
c1390 (?c1350) St. Euphrosyne 665 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 182 (MED) Vche ȝeer þei don his mynde-day holde Anon to þis day.
1438 Will in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 1886–7 (1887) 11 157 I bequeth for my mynde day xx li.
1603 J. Stow Suruay of London (new ed.) 110 Robert Chichley Grocer Maior 1422. appoynted..that on his minde day, a competent dinner should bee ordained for 2400 poore men.
1952 D. M. Jones Anathemata v. 162 At every rounded apse-end where the flamens plead his death who is Best and Greatest on the mind-days when we mark with the white stone.
mind-dust n. Philosophy and Psychology (in materialist hypotheses of evolution) supposed particles of mental substance which exist alongside particles of matter and which combine to form individual minds.
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the mind > [noun] > supposed substance of the mind
mind-stuff1878
mind-dust1890
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. vi. 146 Evolutionary psychology demands a mind-dust.
1938 Jrnl. Philos. 35 577 This reality is of the nature of feeling, only simpler. It is a mind-dust whose elements are specks or crumbs of sentience.
1990 Philos. Perspectives 4 215 The mind-dust argument, or something like it, has recently been revived by Thomas Nagel.
mind food n. (a) (figurative) something which stimulates the mind; (b) (chiefly Science Fiction) a substance taken as food or drink containing chemicals which increase one's mental ability.
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1932 L. E. Lawes 20,000 Years in Sing Sing ix. 327 I have more than a faint suspicion that a large part of our public dotes upon murders and murder trials and executions just as an equally emotional class of people find relaxation and mind food in the gross exaggerations of intimate life that come out of Reno or Hollywood.
1986 R. Pelton (title) Mind food and smart pills.
1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia xviii. 233 Carefully reading the ingredients on the cans of Durk and Sandy mind foods.
1998 S. Reynolds Energy Flash viii. 218 Techno artists..who wanted to make album-length, home-oriented electronic mindfood.
mind frame n. = mindset n.
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the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] > state of mind
intentc1386
mindc1460
spiritc1480
head space1972
mind frame1982
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 May d1/4 ‘The mind frame of people’ is certainly to become more cautious.
1997 Sci. of Mind Dec. 3/2 I'm..beginning to nurture the artist in me and it is scary leaving the security of the 9 to 5 mindframe.
mind-healer n. = mind-curer n.
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1905 Daily Chron. 5 May 4/4 ‘I would suggest’, said Mr. Arthur Hallam, of the Psychotherapeutists or Mind-Healers, ‘that you come and see us at work.’
1938 H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores vi. 304 He began as an Osteopath but afterwards he became a Mind Healer—with Physical Exercises.
1994 Women's Rev. Bks. (Electronic ed.) June 9 She went on to infiltrate and expose matrimonial agencies, baby selling, sham mesmerists, bribe-prone lobbyists, police courts, mind healers and washingmachine swindlers.
mind-healing adj. and n. (a) adj. that heals the mind; (b) n. = mind cure n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > non-scientific treatments > [noun] > treatment by psychical influence
mind-healing1826
psychopathy1851
mind cure1855
phrenopathy1855
psychotherapeutics1872
mental healing1885
suggestion1887
psychotherapy1892
psychotherapeutica1901
1826 H. Smith Tor Hill (1838) III. 41 The placid beauties of the country, in whose mind-healing influences he never failed to find consolation.
1883 Mrs. Eddy Let. in Boston Post 7 Mar. My discovery, in 1866, of the Science of Mind-healing, since named Christian Science.
1891 M. B. Eddy Sci. & Health p. xi The first school of Christian Science Mind-healing was begun..about the year 1867, with only one student.
1995 Denver Post 9 Apr. b1/2 Even Shanahan will indulge in some mind-healing escapism.
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > mound or dome
mind hilla1425
mound1775
Indian mound1791
tope1815
tell1840
stupa1841
ruin-mound1911
ahu1917
ishan1921
pillow mound1928
a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) Josh. xxii. 10 Whanne thei weren comen to the mynde hyllis [L. tumulos] of Jordan.
mind link n. U.S. Science Fiction a telepathic meeting of minds; also in extended use; cf. mind-meld n.
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1954 Authentic Sci. Fiction Monthly Jan. 105/1 Already the mind link was breaking.
1970 K. Laumer House in November vi. 101 He could have..established a mind link with you in infancy, before the pattern of acculturation made such contact impossible.
1985 Computerworld Focus 16 Oct. 63/3 Properly termed a voice/talk-activated word processor, this powerful machine would rival even Mr. Spock's ‘Vulcan mind link’.
1994 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 1 Jan. a 1/5 The idea behind the event..is to raise peace consciousness by uniting individuals in a ‘global mind-link’.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun]
i-mindOE
mindc1300
commemorationc1384
meaninga1400
memorial?1471
recordance1490
mind-making1496
mindfulness1530
memorizing1600
recordancy1654
memorialization1862
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. iii. 35/1 Euery masse syngynge is a specyall mynde makynge of Crystus passyon.
mind map n. a chart on which information is represented symbolically and organized by mental association rather than by strict logic.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > diagram > other types of diagram
map1797
base map1862
polar diagram1879
Gantt chart1918
pie diagram1921
pie chart1922
pie graph1930
histomap1931
process sheet1935
rose diagram1938
process chart1939
stereodiagram1945
wall chart1958
network1959
concept map1967
polar1975
mind map1987
1987 PC Week 3 Nov. 85/3 Mind maps can be used for almost anything—from planning the day, to taking notes, to organizing a presentation or simply exploring one's own thoughts.
1999 N.Y. Times 3 Oct. iii. 4/2 [He] encouraged them to speak freely about their boss, while teaching them to draw mind maps—visual tools that resemble family trees but link words, colors and pictures to express thoughts and ideas.
mind-meld n. Science Fiction a (supposed) technique for the psychic fusion of two or more minds, permitting unrestricted communication or deep understanding (originally from the United States television series Star Trek); also in extended use.
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1968 J. M. Lucas Elaan of Troyius 23 May 40 Mr.Spock,..he refuses to talk. I'll need you for the Vulcan mind-meld.
1975 L. Nimoy I am not Spock 106 Mr. Spock communicates with the Horta creature through the Vulcan mind-meld.
1994 Inuit Art Q. Summer 20/3 I wish it could have been a week longer but, still,..I think we had a pretty good mind-meld. There's this whole other culture, this whole other way of being here, of being on the planet.
mind-meld v. Science Fiction intransitive to engage in a mind-meld (also transitive); (hence) to pool ideas, to brainstorm.
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1984 Washington Post 2 June c9/1 It's revealed that Spock ‘mind-melded’ with Dr. McCoy (‘Bones’) before sacrificing himself to save the crew.
1988 S. McCrumb Bimbos Death Sun ii. 20 I'll find him if I have to mind-meld the desk clerk!
2000 N.Y. Mag. 24 July 45/3 The next [moment], he's mind-melding with an ABC News producer about educational technology initiatives.
mind-melding n. Science Fiction = mind-meld n.
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1968 S. E. Whitfield in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ ii. v. 227 Another unique Vulcan ability exhibited by Spock is a type of ESP that the Vulcans refer to as ‘mind-melding’. He can merge his mind with that of another intelligence and can read its thoughts.
1991 Midnight Zoo 1 v. 114/1 Kirk began to make allowances for Spock's reluctance to kill or his vegetarian preferences while taking advantage of his eidetic memory, elapsed time sense, or mind-melding ability.
2005 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 2 Sept. b1 The drama is a result of mind-melding between..vice chairman, and..chairman of the business law department, whose vision was to create a teaching tool that didn't sound like Klingon to executives and directors.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > shrine > [noun] > of saint
mind placec1449
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 4 Pilgrimage in going to the memorialis or the mynde placis of Seintis.
mind-sight n. [after eyesight n.] the ability of the mind to understand, imagine, or penetrate; (also) a mental picture.
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the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun]
i-witc888
anyitOE
witOE
thoughtOE
inwitc1305
intention1340
mindc1384
understandingc1384
intentc1386
intelligencec1390
intellecta1398
minda1398
understanda1400
intellectionc1449
ingeny1477
intellectivec1484
mind-sight1587
intellectual1598
notion1604
intelligency1663
mental1676
nous1678
grasp1683
thinker1835
Geist1871
noesis1881
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun]
anyitOE
eyesightc1175
sightc1175
sentimentc1374
mindc1384
intentc1386
fantasyc1400
savoura1425
spiritsc1450
perceiverancea1500
perceiverationa1500
senses1528
perceivance1534
sense1553
kenc1560
mind-sight1587
knowledge1590
fancy1593
animadversion1596
cognition1651
awaring1674
perception1678
scan1838
apperception1848
perceivedness1871
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. v. 55 Neither the Sunne nor any thing vnder the Sunne, can well bee seene without the Sunne: likewise neither God nor any thing belonging to God can bee seene without God, how good eyesight or myndsight so euer wee haue.
1849 J. C. Hare Serm. Preacht Herstmonceux Church II. 243 The more we gaze at them the more is our mindsight improved to discern them.
1930 E. Blunden Leigh Hunt ii. 22 The grace which the mind-sight of those merry young scholars awoke in him.
1947 S. Spender Poems of Dedication 27 She drinks his acres of light Which..Beyond mind-sight and eye-sight Reach a womb where his rays Penetrate her night.
1978 P. Audemars Now Dead is any Man 102 He saw once again in his mindsight, with vivid and poignant clarity, some of that tranquil peace.
mind-stuff n. (originally) supposed particles of mental substance in combinations which are perceived as matter; (in later use also) any rudimentary abstract substance from which ideas, images, etc., can be formed.
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the mind > [noun] > supposed substance of the mind
mind-stuff1878
mind-dust1890
1878 W. K. Clifford in Mind 3 65 Mind-stuff is the reality which we perceive as Matter. That element of which..even the simplest feeling is a complex, I shall call Mind-stuff. A moving molecule of inorganic matter does not possess mind, or consciousness; but it possesses a small piece of mind-stuff.
1930 A. O. Lovejoy Revolt against Dualism viii. 272 Mind-stuff is not supposed to be the same kind of thing as either data or the awareness of them.
1937 E. Upward in C. Day Lewis Mind in Chains 42 A poet's images or a novelist's characters are not created out of pure mind-stuff, but are suggested to him by the world in which he lives.
1983 M. Carrithers Buddha iii. 44 Poṭṭhapāda then changed tack, and proposed first a Self made not of material, but of mind-stuff, and then one of consciousness alone.
1995 Fortean Times Aug. 52/3 This altogether grander conception of telepathy saw it as an intangible binding force, ineluctably drawing together ‘mind-stuff’ from many quarters, both within and without the psyche of the individual.
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun]
i-mindOE
studyinglOE
mindc1300
bethinking1340
poring1340
regard1348
weighingc1380
contemplationc1390
advisementa1393
deliberationa1393
advicec1405
reckoninga1413
visement?1414
considerancec1420
advisenessc1425
revolutionc1425
rewardc1432
mind-takingc1449
umbethinkingc1450
advisednessc1475
considering1483
beholding1530
meditationa1535
pondering1535
cogitation?1542
expending1545
ponderation1556
perpending1558
well weighing1566
surview1576
reflex1593
revolve1595
lucubration1596
agitation1600
perpension1612
vizamenta1616
pensitation1623
perpensation1623
perpendment1667
ruminating1668
commentationa1670
revolving1670
reflectiona1674
introspectiona1676
propendencya1676
ponderment1728
chawing1845
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 114 (MED) The remembraunce and mynde taking upon these vij maters is so necessarie a meene into the loue and drede of god.
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun]
mind tokena1382
remembrancec1425
relic1624
denkmal1877
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. lvii. 8 Behinde þe post þou settedest þi mynde tocne [a1425 L.V. memorial; L. memoriale].
mind-transference n. = telepathy n.
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the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [noun] > telepathy
thought-reading1843
mind-reading1846
telepathy1883
thought transference1883
thought transfer1885
mind-transference1886
psychognosis1891
1886 Science 17 Dec. 559/1 Mr. Hodgson is now engaged..in some experiments on the subject of mind transference, or the occasional communication of mental impressions independently of ordinary perceptions.
1897 ‘M. Twain’ Following Equator 317 Here was a clear case of mental telegraphy; of mind-transference.
1916 W. D. Howells Daughter of Storage 53 They used to talk..of clairvoyance; of what we call mind-transference, now; of weird coincidences of all kinds.
2000 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 24 Sept. 1K The police..convince a concerned child psychologist who has unique channeling abilities to hook herself up to the killer's brain via a spiffy looking mind-transference machine.
mind trick n. (a) a trick played by the mind; a delusion or illusion; (b) an act of manipulating someone psychologically, esp. to gain an advantage; see also Jedi mind trick n. at Jedi n. Compounds.
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1894 Philadelphia Inquirer 28 Dec. 9/1 It is all a mind trick, that we are in better trim when we are incased in bones, and so we cling to the corset.
1973 R. R. Evans Social Movements viii. 161 I began to lose confidence in my intellect... Everyone had a theory, and all defended their side of the story with every mind-trick they could muster.
2013 New Zealand Herald (Nexis) 25 Dec. I have to jump into the water at midnight on New Year's Eve... I try to resist each year but they use mind tricks to force me into it.
mind-trip n. a journey taken in the mind alone; a stimulating mental experience, esp. one resembling a drug hallucination; cf. trip n.1 5.
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1972 R. Creeley Sitting up to fill Pages in Coll. Poems 1945–75 (1982) 500 Sitting up to fill pages having written the poem following ‘ahead’. Allen's sense so echoes for me—those ‘mind trips’ he gives me the fact and responsibility of.
1977 Washington Post 30 Jan. a1/2 The week-long television movie of ‘Roots’, the eighth and final episode of which appears tonight, is both an extraordinary American history lesson and a mind trip back to slavery in which the viewers experience vicariously the roles of white masters and black slaves.
1990 Rolling Stone 22 Mar. 22/1 ‘The Stone Roses’, the debut album..a mind-trip worth taking.
mind-trip v. intransitive to take a journey in the mind.
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1991 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 23 Feb. 7 The beer, wine and frivolity also provide Karl a chance to start mind tripping back into the past. So the film takes on the form of a series of flashback episodes.
1995 Chicago Sun-Times 19 Feb. 6 Scientific researcher William Hurt..is going to end up de-evolving into an ape after spending too much time mind-tripping in a flotation tank?
mind-tripping n. and adj. (a) n. the action of taking a journey in the mind; (b) adj. that takes a journey in the mind.
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1986 F. Peretti This Present Darkness xxi. 202 Whoever holds the position now can be asked what connection he or she has with..this Universal Consciousness mind-tripping group.
1989 Sound Choice Autumn 61/1 The reading of Psalm 24 here resembles some kind of psyched-out, Afro-acidic mind-tripping.
1994 Billboard (Nexis) 23 July 78 Woodstock '94 concert Aug. 13–14 in Saugerties, N.Y., will get a chance to do a little mind-tripping, sans any illegal substances. Instead, the means will be provided in ‘The Surreal Field’, a six-acre interactive [etc.].
1995 Sante Fe New Mexican 10 Mar. 32/2 They are destined to meet, even if only as players in a well-oiled, mind-tripping game.
mind virus n. a mental or conceptual meme.
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1992 R. Dawkins in Independent (Nexis) 2 May 49 If the evolved parasite was the memic descendant of a long line of successful ancestors, we are entitled to expect the typical ‘mind virus’ to be pretty good at its job of getting itself sucessfully replicated.
1994 Daily Tel. 1 Sept. 7/2 ‘St Jude provides confirmation for the existence of human mind viruses,’ they said. A Royal Mail spokesman said it was impossible to estimate the number of St Jude letters in circulation.
1999 New Scientist 13 Mar. 3/3 In its most extreme form, this view is that there is no ‘self’ or ‘I’ at the core of our psychological being—just a ragbag of replicating mind viruses and genetic predispositions.
mind-warp n. [after time warp n.] (a) a mental journey through time; (b) something that disturbs or distorts the mind.
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1981 Washington Post 1 Apr. a15/1 Others spoke of mind warps to a limousine in Dallas in 1963 or a sidewalk in New York just three months ago when John Lennon fell.
1983 T. Hughes Starlings have Come in Listener 13 Jan. 20/2 They wrap you Into their mind-warp, assembling a nightmare sky-wheel Of escape.
1994 Independent on Sunday 27 Nov. 29 A happy, quiet sound-clash at a three-way intersection. The East Coast US hip-hop mind-warp of De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, the vibrant collectivism of rival British sound system Soul II Soul, all came together to produce one of the most distinctive débuts of this or any other decade.
mind-warping adj. (a) that disturbs or distorts the mind; (b) that takes a mental journey through time.
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1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 Oct. 5/2 Juveniles..have to live through the mind-warping experience of bearing punishment for their own little faults, but at the same time watching those adults who are in charge of them enjoy the pleasures of sin without suffering any inconveniences at all.
1986 City Limits 29 May 85 Tilley writes about an insectoid, mind-warping alien.
2000 Independent (Electronic ed.) 21 Aug. 8 His lawyer..demonstrates with mind-warping sophistry that opposing witnesses' testimonies are motivated not by honour but seething jealousy.
Derivatives
ˈmind-like adj.
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1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 241 And as these specks of light great worlds will prove, When we approach them sometime free from flesh, So too our thoughts will become magnified To mindlike things immortal.
1940 Mind 49 414 The answer, ‘Our mind can grasp the world because the world is mind-like’ is a typical idealistic argument.
1953 J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action iv. 89 All living substance has mental, or we had better say mind-like, properties.
1992 S. Rose Making of Memory iv. 86 Hence the failure of all the previous predictions about just when the AI people would come up with a really mind-like computer, regarded by the Wiener-enthusiasts of the early fifties as certain to arrive by the 1960's.
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† mindn.2
Archaeology. Obsolete.
An Irish lunula (lunula n. 5).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery worn on the head > [noun] > coronet or circlet
mindOE
crownOE
diademc1290
coronalc1330
circlea1340
garland?a1366
coronaclea1400
crowneta1425
crownalc1443
chapleta1464
circlet1481
cronet1519
cronicle1569
graundcie1592
anadem1598
coronet1599
carcanet1602
frontlet1610
circuita1616
rosary1651
tiar1660
tiara1718
ferronière1831
OE (Northumbrian) Liturgical Texts (Durham Ritual) in A. H. Thompson & U. Lindelöf Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (1927) 92 Accipient sancti regnum decoris, et diadema speciei de manu domini : ofoeð [read onfoeð] halga uaras ric ulittes & mind vel m'gwlit' of honde driht'.
1862 Catal. Special Exhib. S. Kensington 41 Gold-ornament, believed to be the ancient Celtic ‘mind’ or head-ornament. Formed of a thin semi-lunar plate of gold with raised ribs.
1880 W. B. Dawkins Early Man in Brit. x. 358 The golden coronets or minns..worn in Ireland in the legendary times.
1881 W. K. Sullivan in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 257/1 The richer..kings wore..a golden mind or diadem.
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† mindadj.
Obsolete.
1. With dative of person: in, or present to, a person's thoughts or mind.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > [adjective] > remembered
mindc1225
membereda1382
memorialc1390
remembereda1522
in memory1549
unforgot1653
recollected1700
unforgotten1813
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 28 (MED) Me þu makest to steoruen wið þe strengðe of þine beoden, þe beoð þe se munde [c1225 Royal imunde].
a1275 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Trin. Cambr.) (1955) 130 (MED) God be þe ful minde.
a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 430 He arn so kolde of kinde Ðat no golsipe is hem minde.
a1325 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 90 Sune, þu best me so minde.
2. Of a person: mindful of, taking thought for, attentive to, kind to, minded to (do something). Also (without construction) in phrase meek and mind.In quot. c1330 (with dative of person): kind (to a person).
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > [adjective] > careful of
mindyOE
mindc1300
mindfula1382
mindly1435
thoughtfulc1450
respective1560
suspectful1570
regardfula1586
respectful1585
considerate1592
remembering1625
sensible1626
the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > [adjective] > retaining memories, mindful
mindyOE
mindc1300
mindfula1382
mindly1435
remembrativec1449
memoriala1513
memoriousa1513
rememorant1528
rememberingc1595
unforgetful1632
remindful1719
unforgetting1777
OE Cynewulf Elene 1063 Þa gen Elenan wæs mod gemynde ymb þa mæran wyrd.]
c1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 78 Leue us so ben þar-of mende þat he giue us atten ende þat he hauet us to ibout.
c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 611 (MED) Sche was him ful mende; Of hir bere & of hir wine..Oft sche gan him sende.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 727 (MED) And y am euer so mynde For to pray for al mankynde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 21895 And he gain us, sa meke and mind, Sua mikel luues nathing als ur kind.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 26457 Qua-so wrethes his lauerd king, And he o merci find him mind.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 28952 Þat þou be noght for þi flexs mind Bot for to sustain maneskind.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 876 Mykelle lufed hym, his own kynde & oþer tille hym were fulle mynde.
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mindv.
/mʌɪnd/, U.S. /maɪnd/ I. To remember; to bring or call to mind.
1. † a. transitive. To record, make reference to, make mention of. Also intransitive. Obsolete.† b. transitive. With till. To admonish, exhort. Obsolete.† d. transitive. To bring to a person's mind; to speak of or mention to. Also without construction: to cause to be remembered. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).
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society > communication > record > [verb (transitive)]
record1340
minda1382
remembera1382
to put in remembrancea1393
denotate1599
denote1612
chronologizec1616
log1823
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > engage the attention [verb (transitive)] > mention
mingOE
to make mention ofc1300
attain1447
mentionatec1525
mention1530
mind1530
notice1611
notice1627
cite1691
citate1894
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Paralip. xxviii. 15 Þe men þe whiche aboue wee myndedyn stoden & taking þe caityues cloþedyn of þe spoiles alle þat weren nakid.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxviii. sig. i.viiiv And was incarnate, scrypture dothe mynde In the vyrgynall wombe, of blessed marye.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 636/1 I mynde a thyng, I make mencyon of a thyng or mater. Je mencionne.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > advise [verb (transitive)] > admonish
mingOE
monisha1382
correctc1386
admonish?c1400
minda1425
advertise1449
exhortc1475
premonisha1530
precaution1665
caution1683
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 230 Knawyng of all þis shuld hym lede And mynd with-alle til mekenes and drede.
c. transitive. To remind (a person) or put (a person) in mind of (also with about, on, or with clause or infinitive). Now chiefly Scottish.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > remind [verb (transitive)]
mingOE
mina1200
bethink1340
recorda1382
reducec1425
rememberc1425
rememorate1460
mind1524
revive?1564
remembrance1593
recall1595
prompt1600
remind1621
enmind1645
immind1647
refricate1657
commonish1661
flap1790
to touch up1796
1524 Court Bk. Barony of Carnwath f. 20v Jhon of Twodell grantis to mind Jhon Leidell of his vij s.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 4210 Ne mynd not þes men of þe mykyll harme, That a sone of our folke before hom has done.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. iii. 13 Farwell good Salisbury, & good luck go with thee: And yet I doe thee wrong, to mind thee of it.
1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1661) 67 Minding the people what they are about.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 575 It was minded you by my learned countryman, that no law was rightly made, but by King, Lords, and Commons.
1669 T. Middleton in Cal. State Papers: Domest. 575 I hope you will mind the treasurers about the workmen, as they would fain be merry at Christmas.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 387 The season of the Yeare..minding us of returning Northwards.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. ii. xxiii. 56 I must not forget minding those who dig along a Wall, to take care not to come too near the Foundations.
1713 J. Swift Let. to W. Draper 13 Apr. I have been minding my lord Bolingbroke..to solicit my lord-chancellor to give you a living.
1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 244 There's not a bony bird that sings, But minds me o' my Jean.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 71 They mind us of the time When we made bricks in Egypt.
1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. xxviii. 76 Spain may well Be minded how from Italy she caught,..A fuller cadence and a subtler thought.
1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 95 [He] began to curse and swear like a trooper at Elizabeth for not minding him on what he was doing.
1917 Kelso Chron. 16 Mar. 2 That minds me of an incident of twenty years ago at this same hiring fair.
1951 Scots Mag. Jan. 261 ‘I'll sit here and watch the birds,’ she said. ‘It minds me o' the country.’
1979 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. (at cited word) Du minds me aafil o dee graandfaider.
1992 I. Banks Crow Road iii. 66 And mind them there's plenty of bread, and some chicken in the fridge, and cheese, and plenty of soup forbye, if you get hungry again.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > call to mind, recollect [verb (transitive)] > something specified
recollect1559
to rub up?1571
rub1574
recall1579
mind1590
resummon1605
the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > remind [verb (transitive)] > recall to someone
rememberc1425
admonish1489
mind1590
recollect1615
remind1669
reminisce1892
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. Ov That as sacred Symbole it may dwell In her sonnes flesh, to mind reuengement.
1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah x. 219 In the last place I haue noted, that misery mindeth God vnto vs. Then the greater our miserie is, the more is our mind on our maker.
1695 in J. Grant Seafield Corr. (1912) 174 Give my service to all friends with you, particularlie minde me to my wife.
1763 in Jrnl. Friends Hist. Soc. (1923) 20 38 If thou seest them, mind my love to them.
1896 A. Cheviot Prov. & Pop. Rhymes Scotl. 249 Mind me to a' that ask for me, but blad me in naebody's teeth.
2.
a. transitive. To remember, to recollect; to have in one's memory; to think back on. With object a person, thing, etc. Now regional.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > call to mind, recollect [verb (transitive)]
i-thenchec897
bethinkOE
mingOE
thinkOE
monelOE
umbethinkc1175
to draw (also take) into (or to) memorya1275
minc1330
record1340
revert1340
remembera1382
mindc1384
monishc1384
to bring to mindc1390
remenec1390
me meanetha1400
reducec1425
to call to mind1427
gaincall1434
pense1493
remord?1507
revocate1527
revive1531
cite1549
to call back1572
recall1579
to call to mind (also memory, remembrance)1583
to call to remembrance1583
revoke1586
reverse1590
submonish1591
recover1602
recordate1603
to call up1606
to fetch up1608
reconjure1611
collect1612
remind1615
recollect1631
rememorize1632
retrieve1644
think1671
reconnoitre1729
member1823
reminisce1829
rememorate1835
recomember1852
evoke1856
updraw1879
withcall1901
access1978
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (N.Y. Publ. Lib.) (1850) Rom. Prol. 300 He afermeth hem nedi to be confermed, the vices of her paynymrie rathere myndende.
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 40v Memoro, to mynde.
a1550 Myst. Resurrection in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1843) II. 156 Now she spekes of the scornes, Now she remembers the thornes,..Now she spekes of his pacience, Now she myndes his obedience, That unto deth was.
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. vii. 28 King Achelous minding her for whom began that broile,...Alcmenas Sonne remembring to whose cause he did defend.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxvii. 57 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 104 Nay still thy acts I minde; Still of thy deedes I muse.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes ii. iv. 99 in Wks. II Hee minds A curtesie no more, then London-bridge, What Arch was mended last.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 212 Our Supream Foe in time may much remit His anger, and perhaps thus farr remov'd Not mind us not offending. View more context for this quotation
a1709 J. Fraser Chrons. Frasers (1905) 42 He minded often his mother Queen Margaret's advice.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 158 Ae Hairst afore the Sherra-moor, I mind't as weel's yestreen.
1847 S. C. Reid Scouting Exped. McCulloch's Texas Rangers 77 ‘Do you mind the day, Larry,’ continued Pat, ‘that we went out in the morning to bring in the wounded, iv they wasn't all dead?’
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 46 I mind him coming down the street.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad iii. 5 The lads you leave will mind you Till Ludlow tower shall fall.
1929 John o'Groat Jrnl. 13 Dec. A wonder will he min' 'e auld man.
1952 T. A. Robertson & J. J. Graham Gram. & Usage Shetland Dial. (1991) 29 I mindit hit eence, bit hit's aa gien fae me noo.
1964 in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 329/2 I mind the time the seventh [of] April batch, that was some batch of snow.
1976 Jrnl. Lakeland Dial. Soc. No. 38. 21 Can ta mind Bill Dodd, 'at used ta wark fer Bells at Howgill End?
1999 A. Findlay Shale Voices 26 There's a wheen of stories I could tell you about them. But I just can't mind them all.
b. transitive. In imperative or implying advice or warning: to take care to remember, to bear in mind (a fact communicated or already known, a duty to be done, etc.). Chiefly with clause as object.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > retain in the memory [verb (transitive)]
i-mune971
to have (also bear, keep, hold, etc.) in minda1200
withholdc1200
membera1382
treasure1382
demeanc1460
mindc1460
retain1474
keep1574
to take (a thing) with one1577
carry1583
weara1586
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 262 (MED) Ymende þet þis boc is uolueld ine þe eue of þe holy apostles Symon an Iudas.]
c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 5 (MED) It is to be myndyd that Robert Doyly and Roger of Iuory..come to the conquest of Inglonde with Kyng William bastarde.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 154 Mynde thow how thow arte dedly.
1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 19 But it must be minded that though the Son of Man shall Judge the World, yet that he shall come to do so..in the Glory of his Father.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 99 Mind what this lass has suffer'd now for you,..How she is catcht for you frae wigg to wa.
1787 R. Burns Let. 17 Apr. in Pearson's Catal. (1888) May 8 In making up the accounts of my copies, please mind that I am paid for the following number of copies, which money I retain in my own hands.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iv. 95 But mind this: the more we observe and study, the wider we find the range of the automatic and instinctive principles in body, mind, and morals.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 14 Mind to-morrow's early meeting.
1952 T. A. Robertson & J. J. Graham Gram. & Usage Shetland Dial. (1991) 29 Du'll mind an cast aff a loop at da end a da geng.
1987 J. J. Graham Shadowed Valley i. 6 Mind an do aa du can ta help dee midder.
c. intransitive. With of, on, upon: to remember (now chiefly Scottish). Also (now archaic) reflexive in I mind me, he minds him, etc. (also with that-clause).
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > have in one's mind, remember [verb (intransitive)]
monelOE
to have memory (of)a1275
recorda1382
remembera1393
mina1400
meana1425
to have‥in urec1450
to be remembereda1500
minda1500
retain1581
rememorate1606
reminisce1896
the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > retain in the memory [verb (transitive)] > fix in the mind
imprintc1374
grave1390
printa1425
minda1500
stamp1662
brand1848
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 148 (MED) I ne may not mynde me that the Emperours of Rome..wer vnlettride while that hare lordshupp was well gouernyd.
1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies vi. 86 Yet it seems to me reasonable enough, that the poor man should mind him of that in Hosea.
1712 in W. C. Dickinson Two Students at St. Andrews (1952) 18 I do not mind of broth any wise..set before us save once.
1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 219 O ask your heart gif it minds o' me!
a1855 W. M. Thackeray Ballad of Bouillabaisse x I mind me of a time that's gone, When here I'd sit, as now I'm sitting.
1871 Mrs. H. Wood Dene Hollow I. i. 11 ‘I mind me that something was said about that paper at the time,’ resumed the Squire.
1896 ‘L. Keith’ Indian Uncle ii. 21 ‘Did Adam ever mention him before?’ ‘Never, that I mind of.’
1908 J. M. Synge Tinker's Wedding ii. 48 There's the ring, holy father, to keep you minding of your oath.
a1917 E. A. Mackintosh War, the Liberator (1918) 57 Ay and you, With love and pity shining from your eyes, Can you not mind upon your fathers' swords, Anger and hate and pride and cruelty?
1918 V. Jacob More Songs of Angus 15 I mind me o' Strathmore.
1933 J. Gray Lowrie 34 Dir anidder thing it I wis mindin' apon it yon man said.
1984 J. Kelman Busconductor Hines ii. 52 I cant mind of galloping down any wings! Anyhow Reilly, if I was there you must've been there.
1995 D. McLean Bunker Man 244 Then he minded on the car, and went back up the street towards it.
d. transitive. With clause as object. Also (occasionally) intransitive. Now regional.In quot. 1621 with direct object and complement.
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1621 H. Ainsworth Annot. First Bk. Moses, called Genesis (new ed.) iii. 24 Minding himselfe an exile and pilgrime here one earth.
1699 Cramond Kirk Session IV. 16 Oct. He should minde to gett it.
1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. I. 455 The Instances of invading of Pulpits are yet fewer, that is, none at all, as far as I mind, in the preceeding Years.
1723 in R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 2 I mind, before Mr. Webster's death, he spoke to me about one of that name.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 90 I thought ay ye wad brak naething aff, I mind ye liked ay to see a raff.
1800–24 T. Campbell Power of Russia ix But, Poles, when we are gone, the world will mind Ye bore the brunt of fate.
1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 5 May 87/2 The lovers..so superlatively happy, that I mind when I..went with my Angelica to a City church.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. ii. 35 Tunes..as ha' been used in our church ever since I can mind.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxiii. 280 I minded how easy her delicacy had been startled with a word of kissing her in Barbara's letter.
1897 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ For White Rose Arno (U.K. ed.) 144 I mind you promised us a Welsh army by the time we reached this place.
1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iv. 250 God Almighty, what are you snivelling about now? You always were snivelling, I mind.
1954 Scots Mag. Jan. 316 The wind was just getting into its stride, and I can mind yet how it roared in the trees.
1975 A. Deyell My Shetland 81 Said Robbie ‘I can mind my midder kerryin me in her skurt.’.. ‘I can mind far farder back as dat’ says Magnie, ‘I mind afore I wis born hearin da dugs barkin.’
1997 B. MacLaverty Grace Notes (1998) 18 I mind when you took three. I was always washing the sugar out of the bottom of your cup.
3. † a. transitive. To remember (a person, etc.) before God or in one's prayers. Obsolete.
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society > faith > worship > prayer > pray [verb (transitive)] > pray for
minda1425
remember1479
a1425 (?a1350) Gospel of Nicodemus (Galba) (1907) 652 (MED) When þou cumes in þi regne for ay, mend me [v.rr. On me haue mynde; Thyngke on me] with þi mercyse.
1444 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 106 (MED) To ye vicar of Mitton a pare of get bedds for to myn my saule and mynde me in his prayers.
a1500 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Douce) 230 (MED) To mende vs with masses, grete myster hit were.
1666 in W. K. Tweedie Sel. Biogr. (1845) I. 487 When they were earnestly minding my condition before the Lord.
a1699 M. Shields in J. Howie Faithful Contendings Displayed (1780) 327 Mind us when at the throne of grace.
1842 D. Vedder Poems (1854) 52 They mindet us in prayer When ‘the books’ were ta'en at e'en.
b. transitive. Scottish. To remember (a person) by a gift (usually of money); to remember in a will.
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the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > intend to give > bear in mind as entitled to gift
remember1467
mind1706
1706 in W. Fraser Earls of Cromartie (1876) II. 13 I thank your Lordship for minding so small a person as my poor nevoy Stuart.
1714 A. Ramsay Elegy John Cowper ix And to keep a' things hush and lown He minds the poor.
1886 A. D. Willock Rosetty Ends (1887) xix. 143 Aboot twenty o' the leadin' inhabitants had been mindit by Ebenezer to the extent o' sums ranging frae seventeen pounds to fifty-five pounds.
1931 A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle ii. vii She thought he might have minded her with a keepsake.
II. To attend to, concern oneself with, care for, etc.
4.
a. transitive. To think about, turn one's attention to (an activity or task); to direct or apply oneself to, bring one's mind or energies to bear upon, or concern oneself diligently with (a topic, matter, subject of debate or enquiry). Now rare except in phrases: to mind one's book (archaic): to be diligent in one's studies. to mind one's business (archaic): to attend to, prosecute diligently one's affairs. Also intransitive with of.to mind one's own business: see business n. Phrases 5; to mind one's own beeswax: see beeswax n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > take care about [verb (transitive)] > attend to or cultivate
minda1400
intend1429
to look after ——1542
cultivate1654
a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 501 Hit nediþ nouȝt at þis note of Nero to mynde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 636/1 I mynde a thynge, I regarde it, or set my mynde upon it. Je mets le cueur dessus, or je prens au cueur. It can nat go forwarde with the, for thou myndest it nat.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 9305 Achilles..Myche myndit the mater..And to bryng hit aboute besit hym sore.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 13v A man would thinke you had neuer minded any other profession.
1611 Bible (King James) Rom. viii. 5 For they that are after the flesh, doe minde the things of the flesh. View more context for this quotation
1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 52 All those..had a mind for Peace, that minded their duty, and Trust, and Allegiance to their King.
1660 J. Tatham Rump iii. i. 31 Bertlam. Pray let's mind our business. Desbr. Business, Why there's the thing; I think every Man ought to mind his business.
1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 1 Whereas Building is much minded in these times.
1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World II. vii. sig. F2 I must mind my business, and what it is, squint back to the Frontispiece, and there you'll find it.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 383. ¶1 Bidding him be a good Child and mind his Book.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xix. 124 If some certain persons minded Piety more than Politics.
1835 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1837) I. xviii. 272 Mind little things as well as great.
1877 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 360 He went back to Samaria and minded his business.
1890 R. Browning Pope & Net in Asolando 42 So much the more his boy minds book.
1901 R. Kipling Kim ix. 229 You must go back to Lucknow and be a good little boy and mind your book, as the English say.
b. transitive. To care for, like, value, wish for. Also (occasionally) intransitive. Now rare (regional in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > be disposed or inclined to [verb (transitive)] > be favourably inclined to
reckOE
keep1297
to list ofa1300
to have, take a fancy for, to1465
lean1530
fantasy1548
to run upon ——1550
mind1648
to run to ——1809
whim1842
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 137 The only want of wheat is not a want to them that mind bread of Wheat more then of Maiz, for in two dayes it is easily brought.
1666 E. Stillingfleet Serm. (1673) 13 They [sc. the kine of Bashan] minded nothing but ease, softness, and pleasure.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. ii. 11 His heir,..minded nothing but fox-hunting.
c1786 ‘Toby Teach 'em’ Hist. Goody Goosecap 25 Miss Sally Scramble..minded nothing but hoity-toitying about, and had nothing but play in her head.
1857 Misty Morning (2nd Thousand) 149 I dinna mind muckle for that watery trash.
1895 Dial. Notes 1 391 I heard a mountaineer say, ‘I didn't mind it a bit,’ meaning he was terrified at looking over a precipice. The same phrase in Ohio would mean that he was wholly indifferent to it.
1965 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dial.: C908) (MS transcript) Track 11 [Derbyshire] She couldn't get a job when she came out of college at first... They take them for half-time, or what they mind.
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a. transitive. In negative, interrogative, or conditional constructions: to care for or about, trouble oneself or be concerned about, be affected by; to object to, be troubled or annoyed by, dislike (usually of something proposed or offered to one). Often in idiomatic uses, as I would (also should) not mind: I would rather like, would be glad to, would be prepared to; do (or would) you mind (doing something)?: would you kindly, please would you (do what is asked); do you mind if I (do something)? and variants (also shortened to mind if I (do something)?): have you any objection to my (doing what is specified)?; don't mind (doing something): please refrain from (doing what is specified); do you mind?: do you object to or dislike (what is proposed)?; don't mind me: (frequently with ironic implication) take no notice of me, do not worry about me, do as you please; if you don't mind: (frequently with ironic politeness or contradictory implication) if you have no objection; I don't mind telling you: I think you should know; I feel compelled to say.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > be displeased with [verb (transitive)]
mislikea1225
displease1377
to take agrief?a1400
to take in grievinga1400
to like illc1425
to take grief witha1556
mind1562
disconceit1625
to take heinously1632
mistake1725
lump1833
thank1874
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)]
mind1562
to take ill1596
to bend (a person) out of shape1955
1562 J. Heywood Of Mine Acquayntance Certaine Yong Man ii. vi, in Wks. They would saie, better to be happie then wise. Not minding therby than, to depraue your wit, For they had good hope, to see good proofe of it.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles ix. 17 How absolute she's in't, Not minding whether I dislike or no. View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Dryden in Wks. (1885) XI. 362 The wight..Who, true to love, was all for recreation, And minded not the work of propagation?
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 206. ⁋2 I did not mind his being a little out of humour.
1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband v. i. 71 Nay, nay, don't mind me—You have business.
1750 Lady Bradshaigh in S. Richardson Corr. (1804) VI. 95 I do not mind him of two straws.
1767 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (new ed.) App. 378 They will look quite yellow, and stink, but you must not mind that.
a1777 S. Foote Capuchin (1778) i. 109 Why, yes, you may venture, Sir Harry: It is not minded in London.
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iv. i. 45 Never mind the difference, we'll balance that some other time.
1837 T. J. Serle Parole of Honour i. i. 7 I shouldn't think he was fit to be the lover of such a lady as mistress Jane, if he minded running a little risk for her sake.
1839 Comic Almanack 1840 36 ‘Come, dub up!’ roars a third; and I don't mind telling you..that I..took out the sovereign and gave it.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xlvii. 461 This is cool and in the shade, if you don't mind roughing it.
1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 24 Mar. 514/1 I am rather faint, Alexander, but don't mind me.
1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 4 July 447/1 Would you mind my asking you what part of the country you come from?
1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn I. viii. 69 ‘It's the meanest trade going... I don't know whether you are in Parliament, Mr. Finn.’ ‘Yes, I am; but do not mind me.’
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 83 Let us take his advice, though he be one only, and not mind the others.
1874 G. J. Whyte-Melville Uncle John II. xviii. 200 I shouldn't mind a cup of tea myself.
1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children II. xxii. 250 I've had some words with somebody. Don't mind asking any more.
1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob (1891) 48 Stay, do you mind ringing the bell for me first?
1901 G. B. Shaw Devil's Disciple ii. 39 I never care much for my tea. Please dont mind me.
1935 P. G. Wodehouse Blandings Castle i. 25 You won't mind if I freeze on to the two-seater for the nonce?
1948 E. Waugh Loved One 3 It's been another scorcher, eh! Mind if I take a pew?
1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman (1959) 215 I wouldn't mind betting that Janice gets married early.
1965 P. O'Donnell Modesty Blaize iv. 48 I wouldn't mind a drink though, now you mention it.
1973 L. Koenig Little Girl (1974) iii. 34 ‘Don't mind me,’ she said, dragging the chair back..and filling its place with the table... ‘But the table belongs here.’
1974 N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 201 I don't mind telling you..I like to look before I leap.
1987 S. Johnson Commissioner i. 6 Isobel Morton never minded people doing their jobs.
1993 Mondo 2000 x. 31/1 So, if you don't mind, we'll just inject our psychographic probe into you now.
b. intransitive. In negative, interrogative, or conditional constructions: to care, trouble oneself, object, worry. Also with about. In idiomatic uses, as never (you) mind: don't let it trouble you, it does not matter; (also offensively) it is none of your business. I don't mind: I'm indifferent, I'm not bothered, I don't care; (also in Indian English) I would like to, ‘yes, please’. do you mind?: please do not do that, would you mind not doing that?
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1677 T. Rawlins Tom Essence iv. iii. 47 Jack, bring those Spirits Came in last from the Jews in the Citty; Rogue, you never Mind, never mind Sirrah.
1778 F. Burney Evelina II. xi. 82 Who cares if you do? You may tell what you will; I don't mind.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. iv. 51 Never mind, my chick,..more to be had; if one won't snap, another will.
1786 F. Burney Diary 25 July (1842) III. 33 She begged me not to mind, and not to hurry myself, for she would wait till it was done.
1814 Gonzanga ii. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre III. 112 Never mind, father, don't be obstroperous about it.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxiv. 246 There must be something very comprehensive in this phrase of ‘Never mind’, for we do not recollect to have ever witnessed a quarrel in the street,..in which it has not been the standard reply to all belligerent inquiries. ‘Do you call yourself a gentleman, Sir?’—‘Never mind, Sir.’
1837 S. R. Maitland 6 Lett. Fox's A. & M. 70 (note) The person whom Fox calls the Bishop of Penestrum (for we will not mind about a supposed misspelling).
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxi. 305 The public don't mind a straw about these newspaper rows.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. xix. 317 ‘Estella who?’ said I. ‘Never you mind,’ retorted Drummle.
1884 J. H. Ewing Mary's Meadow ii Mother was very angry, but Father did not mind.
1898 Times 5 Oct. 3/3 Sir Herbert Kitchener told them never to mind and to come as they were.
1935 J. Steinbeck Tortilla Flat xiii. 227 The landowners did not mind, for she did no harm.
1961 J. I. M. Stewart Man who won Pools xvii. 167 He was trying to put a hand on Phil's arm. ‘Do you mind?’ Phil had never got it out more arrogant. Moore fell back.
1971 P. O'Donnell Impossible Virgin vi. 123 ‘Why don't you find a nice attractive understanding housekeeper, about forty, and—’ ‘Really!’ Tarrant expostulated, ‘Do you mind?’
1979 P. Nihalani et al. Indian & Brit. Eng. 123 ‘Would you like to come to dinner on Tuesday?’ ‘I don't mind.’
1988 A. Desai Baumgartner's Bombay iv. 113 No one could understand, but never mind.
1994 J. Galloway Foreign Parts v. 70 We can sit here for a while if you like. Whatever, Cassie said. I don't mind. Whatever.
1998 T. McHale Casualty (BBC TV post-production script) (O.E.D. Archive) 13th Ser. Episode 1. 39 Sunny: (looking at Laila) Very nice... Tina: Do you mind? Sunny: Sorry? Tina: (annoyed) This is a hospital..not a cattle market.
c. transitive. In affirmative constructions stating a person's objection or dislike: to object to or dislike. Also (occasionally) intransitive: to be troubled or concerned; to care.
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a1817 J. Austen Watsons in Wks. (1954) VI. 330 ‘Oh! I do not mind it’—it was very evident by the unceasing agitation of his features that he minded it as much as ever.
1860 H. S. Cunningham Wheat & Tares x. 102 Yet her heart smote her now, for Ella minded going dreadfully, and was unusually nice and affectionate.
1908 E. M. Forster Room with View ii. 33 Baedeker?.. I'm glad it's that that you minded. It's worth minding, the loss of a Baedeker.
1969 A. Lurie Real People 144 I asked if she'd minded much. ‘Yes... I was in love with him, so I minded a deal at the time.’
1983 ‘A. T. Ellis’ Other Side of Fire (1985) xvi. 102 I don't mind dogs... Cows I mind.
2000 Country Illustr. Apr. 66/2 Mr H W Selby Lowndes..though he minded very much if the field galloped over his hounds, was seemingly not too stirred-up about dress.
d. intransitive. I don't mind if I do: a humorous circumlocution accepting an invitation, esp. the offer of a (usually alcoholic) drink.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > receiving > [phrase] > acceptance
I don't mind if I do1847
1847 W. B. Bernard Round of Wrong i. 18 Reu. You'll have some tea? Duc. Well, I don't mind if I do.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. viii. 184 ‘Take another glass,’ urged Moore. Mr. Sykes didn't mind if he did.
1861 J. B. Wightman Ann. of Rescued xiv. 217 I invited him to sit on my chair by my side, as there was no other seat for him, and he said, ‘Well, I don't mind if I do.’
1870 D. J. Kirwan Palace & Hovel v. 69 ‘I'll give you a drink, me oul wiper.’.. ‘Well, Billy, I don't mind if I do.’
1926 C. Beaton Diary in Wandering Years (1961) 143 Everyone ‘talked common’... ‘I don't mind if I do; oo-er!’
1932 A. Christie Peril at End House viii. 101 ‘Come and have a drink,’ I said... ‘I don't mind if I do.’
1946 T. Kavanagh Tommy Handley in Holidayland 5 ‘Bitter, sir?’ interrupted the Colonel [Chinstrap].., ‘I don't mind if I do.’
1967 J. Porter Dover & Unkindest Cut xi. 122 ‘Another cup of tea, Mr Dover?’ ‘I don't mind if I do,’ said Dover, passing his cup.
1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 212 Ye felt like giving him a drink of water except ye knew it wouldnay help, but still and all mate get it down ye: Ta pal dont mind if I do.
6.
a. transitive. To take care of, take charge of, look after, watch over (esp. a baby or child, or a shop, store, etc.), now usually for a short or limited period; (now also) to look after (a child, etc.) in an official or paid capacity; to mind the shop (also store): to be in temporary charge (of an operation, enterprise, etc.), take over temporary authority.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)]
hold971
yemeOE
biwitc1000
keepa1325
wait1362
tentc1400
attendc1420
to take guard1426
tend?1521
to have the care of1579
to have, take, give (the) charge of1611
mind1640
to have, take in charge1665
tutor1682
attend1796
shepherda1822
mother1851
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > serve customer in shop > look after a shop or store
mind1640
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)] > take care of or look after > specifically a person > a child in parents' absence
mind1839
sit1950
babysit1962
childmind1969
1640 H. Mill Nights Search §49 247 Who'd be so troubled with such lazie sluts? They're good for nothing, but to mind their guts.
1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant Epil. 84 The Wife that was a Cat may mind her house.
1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. 26 They were..to exhort them to stay at home and mind their families.
1801 M. Edgeworth Prussian Vase in Moral Tales III. 65 The men..were gone to dinner: I stayed to mind the furnace.
1811 S. Beazley Boarding-house ii. iii. 34 Nonsense, girl—I Can't av'oord it—mind the shop.
1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 67 I ha left Bill at home to mind the children.
1873 W. Collins New Magdalen II. xviii. 8 The lodge-keeper's wife..is minding the gate.
1884 J. H. Ewing Daddy Darwin's Dovecot iv. 24 Let me mind your pigeons.
1895 T. Hardy Jude vi. vii. 476 She put her head into the little pork-shop... ‘You must mind the shop this morning,’ he said casually.
1902 Dial. Notes 2 239 Mind the baby while I'm gone.
1915 P. G. Wodehouse Psmith, Journalist v. 28 You'll see that each page is run by some one. I'm simply the fellow who minds the shop.
1940 C. Stead Man who loved Children i. 1 Henrietta, their mother, was in town..and they were being minded by Louisa, their half-sister.
1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait x. 93 He accused me of neglecting the baby and said he'd..let his..secretary mind it.
1957 J. Blish Fallen Star vi. 75 The cabin door opened and the Commodore came out... ‘Who's minding the store?’ I asked him. ‘Hanchett. We're on autopilot and he's watching the instruments.’
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard ii. 70 The CID room was quiet. DC Jones was minding the shop.
1971 Where Nov. 343/2 A certificate is issued specifying the number of children and the hours and days when they can be minded.
1987 USA Today 21 Oct. 9/2 Trained nurturers—not just nannies—will mind kids.
1993 R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1994) 157 I minded the pram while my ma talked to her.
b. transitive. Caribbean. (a) To rear (animals); to bring up, raise (a child); (b) to support (a dependant) financially.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > rear animals [verb (transitive)]
nourishc1300
to bring forthc1305
rear?1440
raise1743
educate1760
farm1793
mind1824
1824 London Missionary Soc. Rep. Proc. against Rev. J. Smith, of Demerara 27 Do the negroes keep many fowls?—Some of them have a great many, and some not; some of them don't mind any at all.
1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners (1972) 52 The old lady get a work at Lyons washing dish, and Tanty staying home to mind the children and cook the food.
1967 C. Sealey in A. Salkey Caribbean Prose (1970) 44 And with an air of dramatic finality, she added: ‘If you ain't want to mind me, I go do it myself.’
1976 Guyana Chron. 24 Oct. 25 Some of the residents ‘mind’ cattle, pigs and goats.
1979 Daily Gleaner 25 Nov. 23 After all, with these men in irregularly-paying jobs or earning $40 per week and with possibly two children already to ‘mind’ how can he possibly take on her too and be able to buy even a underpant once a month?
1996 in R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (at cited word) It is the custom for mothers to insist that their sons should spend time at home ‘working and minding’ them—spending some money they earn on repaying parents for the care and attention they received when they were too young to work.
1996 in R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (at cited word) (song) Brown-skin gal, stay home and mind baby.
c. transitive. slang. To act as a bodyguard to (a person, esp. a criminal); to keep watch over (something, esp. when engaged in a criminal activity).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > protect or defend [verb (transitive)]
shieldc825
frithc893
werea900
i-schield971
berghOE
biwerec1000
grithc1000
witec1000
keepc1175
burghena1225
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warrantc1275
witiec1275
forhilla1300
umshadea1300
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fendc1330
to hold in or to warrantc1330
bielda1350
warisha1375
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defencea1398
shrouda1400
umbeshadow14..
shelvec1425
targec1430
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obumber?1440
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heild?a1513
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shadow1548
fence1577
safekeep1588
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tara1612
target1611
screenc1613
pre-arm1615
custodite1657
shelter1667
to guard against1725
cushion1836
enshield1855
mind1924
buffer1958
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > break the law [verb (transitive)] > keep watch over (criminal or crime)
mind1924
1924 E. Wallace Room 13 vi. 67 I'll cover you; I've got two boys handy that ‘mind’ me.
1941 V. Davis Phenomena in Crime iii. 41 Joe's job was to ‘mind’ the furniture van in front [containing the burglars' tools].
1986 Daily Express 8 Nov. 15/4 Det. Sgt. Graham Sayer had been ordered to ‘mind’ Roger Dennhardt... Dennhardt was a supergrass.
7. transitive. To be sure, to be certain, to take care, to be careful not to forget to (do something) or that (something is done). Now usually in imperative frequently without that.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > retain in the memory [verb (transitive)] > remember to do
treasure1382
rememberc1430
minda1642
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 18 In settinge of theire barres they are allwayes to minde to sette that side of the barres inwarde.
1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 12 Oct. (1948) I. 53 But I'll mind and confine myself to the accidents of the day.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xvii. 150 Mind you have a Vent-peg at the Top of the Vessel.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. viii. vii. 281 But pray mind that she is kept quiet.
1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 215 Never mind about your hand-writing; but mind you write.
1847 G. B. McClellan Mexican War Diary 2 Jan. (1917) 23 ‘Mind, Mr. Smith,’ said the old Mustang [sc. General Patterson] the night before, ‘mind and appear as early as possible, so that you may not delay us’.
1862 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 8 Nov. 102/2 ‘I shall keep my eyes shut.’..‘Very well, mind you do.’
1909 Chambers's Jrnl. 17 Apr. 316/1 Mind you don't get tiddley and blow the gaff.
1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest ix. 92 I'll be hanging around Murry's. Mind you don't tip my mitt. You promised.
1974 J. McGahern Leavetaking ii. 107 Mind you don't get any foolish ideas into your head while you're away.
1995 K. Atkinson Behind Scenes at Museum (1996) xi. 334 Mind you go straight to the duck pond.
8. † a. intransitive. To be careful. Usually in phrases if you (etc.) don't mind, unless you mind: if you (etc.) are not careful, unless you take care. Obsolete (archaic in later use).
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1691 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 359 Being in hast, not minding, [she] set the cotton..on fire.
1839 G. P. R. James Gentleman of Old School II. i. 8 Take care... They'll see you, if you don't mind, as you get over the bank in the moonlight.
1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds II. xxxvii. 138 ‘If he don't mind, he'll find himself astray,’ said Sir Griffin. ‘He'll have to go one way by rail and his horse another.’
1883 J. Ruskin Let. 30 Oct. in Igdrasil (1890) June 218 And my brains always on the overboil, if I don't mind.
1894 R. Bridges Feast of Bacchus iv. 1290 You'll certainly be his death, unless you mind.
1897 H. G. Wells Invisible Man xiii. ‘You'll get knocked about a great deal more if you don't mind,’ said the Voice, and Mr. Marvel abruptly became silent.
b. transitive. To be wary concerning, be on one's guard against, look out for (something that is to be avoided or is potentially dangerous or threatening). Now only in the imperative or in cautionary contexts.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > [verb (transitive)] > guard against
warea900
to be aware of1095
wardc1230
bihedea1250
to attend fromc1375
counterwaitc1386
to look out for1578
counterguard1583
bewarea1600
mind1700
to guard against1725
tent1737
1700 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxxiii. 223 And though those [impressions] relating to the Health of the Body, are by discreet People minded and fenced against.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. viii. 171 ‘Mind the peak there,’ cried Mucklebackit, an old fisherman and smuggler.
1871 G. MacDonald At Back of North Wind xvi. 163 ‘Mind the gate,’ said Mr Stonecrop; and Diamond did mind the gate.
1881 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland (1882) x. 94 ‘You better mind that fellow, Mr. Fitzgerald,’ said the Native.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker Prol. 5 You will find the owner, Mr. Dodd, below. Mind the fresh paint on the house.
1943 M. McLaverty White Mare & Other Stories 15 When I opened the door I'd say, ‘Mind the step!’ and in would shuffle wee Johnny Moore leading the blind man.
1958 J. Betjeman Coll. Poems 10 You'll come to Enniscourthy Drive, Coolgreena is the last of all, And mind the terrier when you call.
1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. (Weekend Mag.) 29/2 They allow me to press a button heralding the arrival of a train on the Bakerloo Line (southbound): ‘Mind the Gap!’ runs the familiar injunction.
c. transitive. To be careful or attentive about, take care of; to use or perform carefully.mind your eye: see eye n.1 Phrases 2p; to mind one's P's and Q's: see P's and Q's n.; to mind one's step: see step n.1 10b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > take care about [verb (transitive)]
lookeOE
heeda1225
recka1225
intendc1374
curec1384
observec1390
fandc1425
to see unto ——a1470
wake1525
regard1526
tend1549
study1557
foresee1565
beware1566
to have the care of1579
reckon1622
mind1740
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. i. 33 It is an easy Matter to..skreen Blemishes in the Hoof, if you don't mind your Eye.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. 163 Well, Jacob, what do you stare at? Pray mind what you're upon.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. i. 1 I wish either my father or my mother..had minded what they were about when they begot me.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 239 I began to mind a little what I was about.
1865 ‘L. Carroll’ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland vi. 83 ‘Oh, please mind what you are doing!’ cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn v. 33 Looky here—mind how you talk to me; I'm a-standing about all I can stand, now—so don't gimme no sass.
1929 Butterfly 9 Feb. 1/3 Hey! Look out dere—also mind yo backs!
1938 ‘J. Bell’ Port of London Murders x. 180 You mind what you're about. I'm not going to life-save you a second time.
1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners (1995) 30 Mister, you best hads mind what you doing.
1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes (1997) xvii. 400 She stands up and faces me. Mind your tongue, she says. Mind your own bloody tongue.
d. transitive. to mind one's manners: to remember or take care to be polite and well-mannered; frequently in imperative as mind your manners!
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1787 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians (ed. 5) iii. 8 Before that Boys can rise to Master-Tanners, Humble those Boys must be, and mind their manners; Despising Pride, whose wish it is to wreck 'em.
a1804 J. Tobin Faro Table (1816) iv. i. 40 Father bid me mind my manners in town, And keep myself smart and sober, and genteel, or Perhaps you might not take to me.
1849 E. C. Gaskell Let. 8 Oct. (1966) 85 He had been ‘minding his manners’ till then, but this was too much; so he first choked, & then..took to Bible language till his adversary fairly stood rebuked.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. viii. 131 Do eat!.. Never mind your manners. I know you're starved.
1952 H. F. M. Prescott Man on Donkey Prologue ii. 14 She was to be sure and mind her manners.
1993 A. Gay Brooch of Azure Midnight 263 Chesarynth carried the weight of other people's expectations—pass this exam, wear this suit, mind your manners—oh, you've spilt your dinner, just look at my clean floor.
e. intransitive. to mind out: to look out, be careful. Frequently in imperative, (occasionally) transitive with clause as object. Also in mind yourself.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > be cautious or take care [verb (intransitive)]
warea1000
biwaitc1456
to look to it1548
to look out?1553
to play safe1601
to be on the sure side1668
to mind out1823
to keep one's powder dry1837
to play it safe1873
to have a care1876
to watch it1916
to watch (or mind) one's step1934
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. xvi. 227 Elizabeth saw nothing to induce a second glance at the team, until she heard the teamster speaking to his cattle in a low voice—‘Mind yourself, Brindle.’
1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 511 ‘I thank you kindly, brother Hardy, but mind yourself,’ said Mrs. Higginbottom; a caution quite unnecessary.
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 61 ‘But,’ he added, ‘once that is settled, you become my rival once again, and I warn you—mind yourself’.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester 227 Mind out,..to be on one's guard.
1890 Dial. Notes 1 65 Mind out what you are doing.
1894 W. Raymond Love & Quiet Life xii. 136 If I don't min' out, woone o' these days..he'l vall off.
1938 J. Stuart Beyond Dark Hills iii. 59 John's got a bad boy. He'll go to the pen if he don't mind out—that boy will.
1949 G. Cotterell Randle in Springtime 7 Mind yourself, there are some redcaps in that jeep.
1990 B. Moore Lies of Silence ii. 32 Sit down, you! Mind yourself! Sit down!
1993 Guardian 23 Oct. (Weekend Suppl.) 29/4 He is polite enough, although his dogs—‘mind out, there's three Rotties in here’—are noisy.
f. transitive. Caribbean. In imperative with an affirmative clause as object: ‘be careful lest’; ‘make sure that (a specified situation) does not occur’.
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1877 H. G. Murray Tom Kittle's Wake 18 You better mine dat you blink eye that you hab dere.
1942 L. Bennett Jamaica Dial. Verses 38 Mine you meck police arres' me.
1965 Belize Times 31 July 8 The pint-size dictator was tempted to ‘break the ties that bind’, that is, the official secrets act, to prove that he was a hero. But when the crowd shouted, ‘Mind you go to jail’, he backed down.
1996 in R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (at cited word) ‘Stamp up de daam place all you like,’ he threatened, ‘but mind you mash me foot.’
9. transitive. U.S. regional. To scare off, drive away (a pest or nuisance). Frequently with off. Cf. sense 8b.
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1865 M. L. Byrn Adventures Fudge Fumble 152 A little boy went out to mind off the dogs.
1942 M. Campbell Cloud-walking 73 Ishmael was left to mind off the flies.
1963 W. A. Owens Look to River 14 Then came March and the blackbirds. In a week of minding them, Jed hated them more than anything he had ever known.
1981 L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States 0003/103 Always, one of the women..would have to mind them—flies, during meal.
III. To intend; to take notice of, heed.
10. † b. transitive. To have in mind (an action, plan, etc.); to contemplate, purpose, intend, aim at (a course of action); to plan, provide for (an outcome, eventuality). Occasionally with clause as object. Cf. foremind v. Obsolete.† c. intransitive. To direct one's thoughts toward. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. With infinitive as object: to have a mind to do something; to wish, be inclined, purpose, intend to do something. Also in subordinate clause with implied infinitive. Cf. minded adj.2 1a. Now rare (regional).
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the mind > will > intention > intend [verb (transitive)]
willeOE
meaneOE
minteOE
i-muntec1000
thinkOE
ettlea1200
intenta1300
meanc1330
forn-castc1374
intendc1374
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proposec1425
purpose1433
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suppose1474
pretend1477
mindc1478
minda1513
pretence1565
appurpose1569
to drive at ——1574
thought to1578
hight1579
pretent1587
fore-intend1622
pre-intend1647
design1655
study1663
contemplate1794
purport1803
c1478 in T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 304 Myndynge not to take the foyle, stande to defende theyre cause.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward V f. j The duke not entendynge so longe too tary, but mindyng..to preuent the time.
1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 463 Quhilk, gif thay mynd as thay pretend, Thay wald haue begun at this end.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. i. 104 Belike she minds to play the Amazon. View more context for this quotation
1634 in C. Innes Black Bk. Taymouth (1855) 440 In the North, quhair I mynd to stay for tuo monethes.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1603 I sorrow'd at his captive state, but minded Not to be absent at that spectacle. View more context for this quotation
1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 2 If you mind to play the logician.
1714 Boston News-let. 26 Apr. 2/2 (advt.) Any person minded to buy the same may agree with Samuel Jackson.
1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 417 Roubiliac..minding to put a trick on him, pretended to be so charmed with his performance..that [etc.].
1881 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) III. 334 I don't myne to see him ava.
1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 124 He was wandering round the shelves, taking down a book here and there as he minded.
1926 E. M. Roberts Time of Man 328 Said a horse could go in by itself if it minded to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > intend [verb (transitive)]
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meaneOE
minteOE
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thinkOE
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to drive at ——1574
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design1655
study1663
contemplate1794
purport1803
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. vi. sig. b.iiiiv In meane whyle the kynge, mynded maryage.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward V f. ij Which thyng in all apparaunce he resisted, although he inwardly mynded it.
1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 310 The saidis Lordis na wyise willing to call in doubt the autoritie and credit of the saidis lettres.., bot rather mynding that all strangearis, freindis, and confideratis of this realme..find all favour [etc.].
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 11 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) And that noble Prince began to cast an Eye unto Ireland, and to minde the reformation of things there runne amisse.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 246 If this King did no greater Matters, it was long of himselfe; for what he minded, he compassed.
1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 94 A convenient descent must be minded.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 55 Those that mind the making use of Chalk in their walls, must [etc.].
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lxvii He could find no foot-steps of their having minded the Power of such Conservacy.
a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) viii.187 When the Lord minds a mercy to a people, he helps them beforehand to pray for it.
1864 J. S. Le Fanu Wylder's Hand I. 123 I did not mind looking out again. To tell you the plain truth, I was just a little bit afraid.
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1633 W. Struther True Happines 145 So if we minde toward heaven, wee must walk through the world as Strangers.
11. transitive. To perceive, be aware of, notice; to have one's attention attracted by. Occasionally intransitive. Also (rarely) with clause as object. Now regional.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > observe, note [verb (transitive)]
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note?c1225
heedc1275
apperceivec1300
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notec1390
notac1392
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considerc1400
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observe1560
quote1560
remark1581
to take note1600
apprehenda1634
to take cognizance of1635
animadverse1642
notice1660
to pass in review1697
smoke1716
cognize1821
spot1848
looky1900
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) viii. 33 He mynded and dyde byholde his Ioyouse esperyte.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 17 I'le fall flat, Perchance he will not minde me. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 247 My Lord you nod, you do not minde the play. View more context for this quotation
1665 J. Davies tr. A. de Castillo Solórzano La Picara 63 He not minding the figure that stood in the garden, told his Master that there was not any body.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 519 Shee busied heard the sound Of rusling Leaves, but minded not. View more context for this quotation
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. i. 21 A finite intelligence..may sometimes..think of somewhat else than what he is doing, so as to be said in a manner not to mind what he is about.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 32 A Term used commonly..but I did never mind it in any one of the Treatises of the..Italian Architects.
1707 J. Swift Tritical Ess. 6 Aug. in Misc. (1711) 256 And Archimedes the famous Mathematician was so intent upon his Problems, that he never minded the Soldier who came to kill him.
1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1790) I. vi. 66 One of the company had already passed [the picture] without minding it.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 2 I recollect minding that his..story struck Dr. Johnson exceedingly.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 159 I minded him oft when at church, How under the wenches' fine bonnets he'd glower.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down (at cited word) See! d'ye mind the way she's walkin'.
1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 205 I never noticed it getting hot... I ought to minded it.
1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 185 Do you mind the way he's talking?
1963 W. A. Owens Look to River 163 It'll take a heap more time'n just talking to you about it. You minding the time?
12.
a. transitive. To pay attention to, take notice of, heed; to be obedient to, to obey. Occasionally intransitive: to obey. Also with clause as object. Now regional (chiefly North American and Irish English).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > take notice of, heed [verb (transitive)]
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understandc1000
beseea1225
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tentc1330
to look into ——c1350
rewardc1350
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advertise?a1439
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respect1543
eye?c1550
mind1559
panse1559
to take knowledge of1566
to consider of1569
suspect1590
pass1609
matter1652
watch1676
society > authority > subjection > obedience > obey or be obedient to [verb (transitive)]
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buxomc1305
obeya1325
servea1325
obeisha1382
obtempera1475
obtemperate?a1475
follow1523
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1559 Bp. Scot in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) I. App. vii. 422 If men wolde diligently mind St. Paul's wordes.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. Dv They neither minded who, nor what I ask.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. 17 Mind at Helmne what is said to you carefully.
1673 Vain Insolency of Rome 28 A short History, which I minded, when I heard it, the more heedfully.
1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. ii. 131 The Emperor is no more minded than a Baby in Leading-strings.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 124 First it should swim in the Sea, (do you mind me?) then it should swim in Butter.
1739 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 24 July (1932) (modernized text) II. 367 I looked upon it as a sign that you liked and minded my letters.
1739 Ld. Chesterfield Lett. (1932) (modernized text) II. 400 Pray mind your Greek particularly, for to know Greek very well is to be really learned.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iv. x. 252 I have had..much ado to make him mind me; for he's all for having his own way.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 350 By all means he must be blinded, If my council be but minded.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 90/1 Would our father have minded the caitiffs?.. Would he..have minded parliament?
1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. ii. 39 But if your reverence minds what my wife says, you won't go wrong.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xiv. 115 But the murderer minded him not a whit, cleansing his blood-stained knife the while upon a wisp of grass.
1898 R. Blakeborough Wit N. Riding Yorks. 414 Ah've mahnded what thoo sed.
1900 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 925/3 The dog minds well.
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 105 How many courses do you want, I'd like to know... Do you mind me now?
1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 30 ‘Quentin's not eating his supper. Hasn't he got to mind me.’.. ‘Eat your supper, Quentin.’
1938 P. Kavanagh Green Fool vi. 68 The priests..said it was a pagan well from which the old Fianians drank in the savage heroic days. The peasant folk didn't mind the priests.
1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird (1963) i. iii. 31 You think about how much Cal does for you, and you mind her, you hear?
1988 A. Lurie Truth about Lorin Jones ix. 146 Her little brothers always ganged up on her as soon as their parents were out of the house, and wouldn't mind what she said.
1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life i. vi. 78 You boys mind your mothers.
b. intransitive. colloquial. To pay attention, take note. Chiefly used (also in mind you) in the imperative to add emphatic force to a statement, or parenthetically in qualifying a previous statement.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > be attentive, pay attention to [verb (intransitive)]
lookeOE
reckOE
heedOE
turna1200
beseec1200
yeme?c1225
to care forc1230
hearkenc1230
tendc1330
tentc1330
hangc1340
rewarda1382
behold1382
convert1413
advertc1425
lotec1425
resortc1450
advertise1477
mark1526
regard1526
pass1548
anchor1557
eye1592
attend1678
mind1768
face1863
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i An' mind you, billy, tho' ye looked dry, Ye'll change your fessons.
1779 G. G. Beekman Let. 21 July in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1331 Mind Now Dont Sell Sister Waltons Bill.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. i. 13 So I bar Latin, mind.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 26 Something feminine—not effeminate, mind—is discoverable in the countenances of all men of genius.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. iv. xxiii. 366 Now mind, mother, not a word about uncle Richard yet.
1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 41 But, mind you, when a boy starves in the streets..The soul and sense of him grow sharp alike.
1879 L. B. Walford Cousins III. 214 Mind you I'll have no dilly-dallying this time.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out iv. 74 Mind you—I daresay I was a difficult child to manage.
1922 ‘R. Crompton’ Just—William xi. 215 Through the still air the words shot out—‘Two, mind, an' with long tails.’
1959 Listener 22 Jan. 154/2 The Japanese—who were scattered over a very large part of Asia at that time, mind you—would have all fought it out to the death.
1980 ‘L. Cody’ Dupe (1981) iii. 29 She was quite right, mind.
1987 S. Eldred-Grigg Oracles Miracles i. 20 We was still hard up, mind you.
2000 Big Issue 10 Apr. 8/3 It's plain embarrassing bursting into tears in the queue at Sainsbury's simply because they've run out of fresh cream chocolate eclairs (not that I ever do, mind).
IV. Other uses.
13. intransitive. nonstandard. To matter, be important. Also (Caribbean) don't mind: it doesn't matter.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (intransitive)]
reckeOE
recka1250
attainc1374
beforcec1375
pertaina1382
concern1477
import1539
signifya1616
to trench into (unto)1621
to bear (a) (great) state1623
urge1654
relate1655
bulk1672
refer1677
argufy1751
to be no small drinka1774
tell1779
reckon1811
to count for (much, little, nothing, etc.)1857
to stand for something (or nothing)1863
shout1876
count1885
mind1915
rate1926
1915 F. H. Lawrence Let. 16 Mar. in T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 680 I had a room without a door or a window..but that did not mind.
1915 F. H. Lawrence Let. 16 Mar. in T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 682 Bullets really don't mind much.
1961 Listener 5 Oct. 500/1 (child's composition) You migth see a earwig gust coming out of [an apple] but that dosenet mind gust pick it of.
1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (at cited word) The dress got a little stain, but don't mind, you can still wear it for today.
1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (at cited word) Don't mind who it is, you mustn't open the door.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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