英语词汇“more cost than worship”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†P4. Collocated with worship. the more cost, the more worship and variants: the greater the expenditure on something, the more it is appreciated. more cost than worship and variants: more expense or effort than something is worth. Obs. (English regional in later use).

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1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 75 in Rocke of Regard His cape of cloth, with veluet linde within, His hoase of silke, with stitches straunglie drest, More cost hee said, more worship did him win.

1591 J. Harington in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso Advt. to Rdr. sig. A i All their figures are cut in wood, & none in metall, and in that respect inferior to these, at least (by the old prouerbe) the more cost, the more worship.

1663 Life & Death J. Turner 12 Mr. Okeham..would needs buy a Horse in imitation of that pomp..; but the Cost being greater than the Worship, soon sold him again.

1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xxiv. 865/2 Here is more cost than worship in this Medicine.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 194 She was as fine as Fi'pence; but, truly, I thought, there was more Cost than Worship.

1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 9 You labour too hard... Ay..and for little or nothing: only victuals and cloaths, more cost than worship.

1817 Christian Disciple May 152/1 In a word, there is more cost than worship in the business, more harm than good.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cost, when anything costs much more than it is worth, it is said to be ‘more cost than worship’.

单词	more cost than worship
释义	> as lemmas more cost than worship †P4. Collocated with worship. the more cost, the more worship and variants: the greater the expenditure on something, the more it is appreciated. more cost than worship and variants: more expense or effort than something is worth. Obs. (English regional in later use). ΚΠ 1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 75 in Rocke of Regard His cape of cloth, with veluet linde within, His hoase of silke, with stitches straunglie drest, More cost hee said, more worship did him win. 1591 J. Harington in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso Advt. to Rdr. sig. A i All their figures are cut in wood, & none in metall, and in that respect inferior to these, at least (by the old prouerbe) the more cost, the more worship. 1663 Life & Death J. Turner 12 Mr. Okeham..would needs buy a Horse in imitation of that pomp..; but the Cost being greater than the Worship, soon sold him again. 1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xxiv. 865/2 Here is more cost than worship in this Medicine. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 194 She was as fine as Fi'pence; but, truly, I thought, there was more Cost than Worship. 1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 9 You labour too hard... Ay..and for little or nothing: only victuals and cloaths, more cost than worship. 1817 Christian Disciple May 152/1 In a word, there is more cost than worship in the business, more harm than good. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cost, when anything costs much more than it is worth, it is said to be ‘more cost than worship’. extracted from costn.³ < as lemmas
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