| 单词 | back-looking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasback-looking (b) With present participle, forming adjectives, as back-acting (cf. back-acter n. at sense 2), back-blowing, back-coming, back-driving, back-glancing, back-going, back-looking, back-lying. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [adjective] > excavating back-acting1562 earth-moving1890 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > repelling or drawing off percussivea1398 repercussivea1398 repulsive?a1425 back-driving1562 repellent1575 revelling1592 depulsivec1615 repercutient1676 repellant1730 derivative1854 derivant1876 the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective] > reaching into the past backward1658 back-looking1850 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 97v A repercussiue or back-dryuyng medicine. 1615 W. Hull Mirrour of Majestie 48 The soule is encombred with foure back-pulling retentives. 1817 M. Edgeworth Harrington & Ormond I. vi. 116 With back-stepping curtsey. 1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 347 Back-looking Memory. 1863 H. Kingsley Austin Elliot I. x. 110 A long, low, back-lying house. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xxi. 299 The body was heavy, and he was clearly a back-going beast. 1928 W. Barnes Excavating Machinery ii. 50 The action of a back-acting shovel is..the reverse of a standard shovel, as it digs towards the machine like a drag line. back-looking (e) With verbal nouns forming nouns, as backsliding n., back-coming, back-drawing, back-going, back-looking, back-slipping, back-starting, back-surging, back-turning, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [noun] renoirie1340 apostasyc1380 recidivationa1425 perversiona1450 pervertinga1450 relapsec1475 resiluation1513 departing1526 residuationa1535 back-starting1535 backsliding1554 abrenunciation1557 recreant1570 backslide1586 relapsing1591 recreantness1611 apostating1648 recadency1648 apostatizing1659 lapse1660 apostatism1814 renegadism1823 society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] gaincome?c1225 retourc1330 gaincominga1340 again-cominga1382 returna1393 again-racea1400 returning?c1400 resortc1425 turningc1440 revertence?1457 repairingc1460 again-goinga1475 regress1478 revenuea1500 reversiona1500 back-coming1535 retire?1538 back-return1577 redition1595 regredience1648 reverter1663 epistrophe1814 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > surging back-surging1535 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > retiring, withdrawing, or retreating recoilc1330 retreata1393 subtraction?a1425 back-drawing1535 retirement1536 retiring1548 retraict1550 recess1561 retire1570 retiral1611 subducing1633 retiration1637 withdrawment1640 retirance1662 retreating1664 retraction1684 retreatment1721 withdrawal1824 back-pedalling1950 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] > after the event back-looking1535 afterlight1704 hindsight1883 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > desertion of one's party or principles recreandisea1425 declining1526 declination1533 back-turning1535 defect1540 revoltc1576 falling off1577 apostasy1578 tergiversation1583 declension1597 recreancy1602 starting1602 recreantness1611 recession1614 turncoating1624 recreancea1632 diffidation1640 withdrawment1640 tergiversating1654 turning1665 ratting1789 renegadism1823 turncoatery1841 defection1884 turncoatism1889 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. iii. 22 So shal I heale youre bacturnynges. a1569 M. Coverdale Fruitful Lessons (1593) sig. Ff2 Such curious backe looking doth the Lord rebuke. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes v. f. 197 Of apostasie..that is to say, of back-starting from the Christian faith. 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 523 That sigh which breatheth out sorrow, by a backe-breathing bringeth in joy. a1605 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1683) 79 In her back-coming..the Earl of Bothwell rancountered her. a1666 R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) vi. 86 Approving my jealousy, but reproving my backdrawing. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. vii. 190 A..hostage, for my safe back-coming. 1858 R. Chambers Domest. Ann. Scotl. I. 4 In all her back-surgings upon the ground she lost. < as lemmas |
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