| 单词 | more by token |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmore by token b. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern). more betoken (also, chiefly Scottish, more by token, more for token, etc.) [compare token n. 15] : especially, in particular; moreover, besides. Also more belike (English regional (Yorkshire)): especially. ΚΠ a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 218 An auld wheelbarrow, mair for token, Ae leg an' baith the trams are broken. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xi. 237 Ane suldna speak ill o' the dead—mair by token, o' ane's cummer and neighbour. 1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. xxi. 286 Our only danger will be from drug or pill; more by token, as there is a lot of apothecary's stuff aboard. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 8 All this Jem swore he had seen, more by token, that it was the very day he had been mole-catching on Squire Cass's land. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down More betoken, besides, generally used when adding a circumstances to prove the correctness of a statement. 1885 D. Boucicault Shaughraun i. i. 11 To be sure, wasn't you by, and helped to persuade him? More betoken, you were a witness to the deed. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 160/2 [W. Yorkshire] More belike, more especially. 1930 Aberdeen Univ. Rec. Mar. 103 Mair b'token, the third scythe 'at vera year, aul' Tom Watson, wiz a lad o' that kin'. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. (at cited word) More betoken, moreover, besides; more especially. more by token b. more by token: still more, the more so. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > to a greater extent more thanc1485 more so1735 more by token1816 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xi. 237 Ane suldna speak ill o' the dead—mair by token, o' ane's cummer and neighbour. 1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. xxi. 286 Our only danger will be from drug or pill; more by token, as there is a lot of apothecary's stuff aboard. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 8 All this Jem swore he had seen, more by token, that it was the very day he had been mole-catching on Squire Cass's land. < as lemmas |
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