单词 | of mark |
释义 | > as lemmasof (great, little, etc.) mark 39. of (great, little, etc.) mark: noteworthy, important. Chiefly as postmodifier; rarely in predicative use. [Compare Middle French homme de marque (1585); the sense is ‘a person who bears the signs of honour or authority.’] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > worthy of notice specialc1405 eminentc1420 markablec1449 noteworthy1552 regardable1572 respectable1584 of —— observation1587 considerable1589 of (great, little, etc.) mark1590 signal1591 remarkable1593 conspicuous1604 noble1604 observative1608 observable1609 significant1642 noteful1644 signalized1652 tall1655 curious1682 notice-worthy1713 unco1724 noticeable1793 handsome1813 epoch-forming1816 measurable1839 epochal1857 epoch-making1863 era-making1894 epoch-marking1895 high profile1950 landmark1959 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. B2 The wisedome of the land..compared our Nobilitie and men of marke, to the flowers that stand about the Princes Crowne. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 45 A fellow of no marke nor likelihoode. View more context for this quotation 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. xxxiii. 609 They were of greater marke and calling than the rest. 1614 D. Dyke Myst. Selfe-deceiuing xxviii. 343 They greeue at those good works of others, if of any marke, wherein they haue had no hand themselues. 1622 S. Ward Christ All in All (1627) 8 This whole Vniverse,..and all the things of mark and vse in it,..but for him should not have been. 1647 T. May Hist. Parl. Pref. sig. A4v Sufferings of..so high a marke. 1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 95 These are the notions which..several persons, and among them persons of no mean mark, have associated themselves to propagate. 1863 H. W. Longfellow Musician's Tale ix. ii, in Tales Wayside Inn 106 A learned clerk, A man of mark. 1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxix. 399 He still held a place of great mark in literature. 1885 Mag. Art Sept. 450/1 Granada was a place of little mark as compared with Cordova. 1919 J. Conrad Arrow of Gold ii. ii. 63 He talked first about a certain politician of mark. 1957 ‘R. West’ Fountain Overflows ii. 44 For this French tutor was a man of mark, member of a gentlemanly Belgian family. < as lemmas |
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