单词 | or some such |
释义 | > as lemmasor some such 24. With many (more), any, some, all, every: many (etc.)…of the (same) kind, many…like this. Also in or some such (also somesuch): or some such thing.With a singular noun the construction many a such, any such a, etc. was formerly common. ΚΠ c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxiv. §6 Geþyld & rihtwisnes & wisdom, & manege swelce cræftas. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 195 Ȝef ei mon eani swuch þing ortrowi bi him. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 443 When ony suche men asken þe sacrid ooste. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ephes. v. 27 Not hauynge wem, or spot,..or ony such thing. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13712 Moises wol we alle suche stone. c1400 Rom. Rose 7123 Many a such comparisoun. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark ix. f. lviijv Whosoever receave eny soche a chylde in my name, he receaveth me. 1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bviiv All suche as haue erred & ar deceiued. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xvii. 134 Beefore ye haue any perceiueraunce that any suche thyng is to come. 1549 T. Solme in H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie To Rdr. sig. Aviii A fewe moo suche Preachers. 1550 T. Cranmer Let. 20 Apr. in D. Wilkins Consilia (1737) IV. 62/1 All such benefices..as..have been..impropried. 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iii. f. 33 Masse blesseth euery such as seekes in welthie state to bee. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. iv. 49 Some such strange bull leapt your fathers cowe. View more context for this quotation 1607 S. Hieron Discouerie of Hypocrisie in Wks. (1620) I. 241 Euery such shall bee cut off by the hand of God. 1653 H. More Antidote Atheism (1662) 97 A many such miracles. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 27 He ne'er gave quarter t' any such. 1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xvi. 97 I never kept company with any such gentry. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xiii. 331 Several such strata. 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. xviii. 77 If we may properly attribute any such objects to him. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott IV. vii. 222 Some such excursion had been..recommended to him by his own physicians. 1895 S. Baring-Gould Noémi xxiv Some such a colourless, cadaverous light as that which [etc.]. 1967 D. Francis Blood Sport iii. 35 He was in France on business wasn't he, or somesuch. 1972 Daily Tel. 11 Apr. 22/5 Plan will be to approach them with proposals for short and sharp bursts of selling with stamps—stamp weeks or somesuch. 1973 R. Parkes Guardians vii. 122 The doctor believed it might aid expiation or abreaction or some such. < as lemmas |
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