单词 | of ——'s making |
释义 | > as lemmasof ——'s making e. With a possessive, attributing responsibility to a specified agent, as of ——'s making (in predicative use sometimes with omission of of). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun] > action or practice of composing diting1382 settinga1450 writingc1450 makinga1470 context?a1475 indite1508 inditing?a1513 inditement1567 contexture1603 composal1615 composing1873 a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 713 Thus I am slayne..thorow two knyghtes of myne owne bryngynge up and of myne owne makynge. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 102 His creature of his awin making. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye To Rdr. sig. a4 I haue sent you such bokes as you wrote for and one moo of Rastels makinge. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. Gloss. Singing a Cantion of Colins making. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. sig. ⁋13 [They] doe either make new Translations themselues, or follow new ones of other mens making. 1676 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 28 'Twas a match of his friends and not his owne making. 1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 12 The Laws of the Church are most Favourable to the Church, because they were the Churches own making. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Cinyras & Myrrha in Fables 175 Man, a Slave of his own making lives. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 44. ⁋3 The Statuary, who fell in Love with the Image of his own making. 1765 J. Otis Vindic. Brit. Colonies 10 Now Magna Carta is but a law of their making, and they may alter it at pleasure. 1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 278 A poet of Nature's own making. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 15 The only roads were of Nature's making. 1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xvii. 183 The marriage was not of her making. 1979 Guardian 5 July 9/3 Those men who keep their cool are dragged, willy nilly, into violence not of their making. < as lemmas |
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