| 单词 | out of one's sight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of one's sight a. The range or field of one's vision; chiefly in out of one's sight. Also spec. (quot. c1865). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > range or field of eyeOE sightc1175 eyesightc1225 kenning1530 view1553 reach1579 kena1592 sight-shot1663 command1697 field1721 eye scope1853 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3387 Þeȝȝ wenndenn fra þa wake menn. All ut off þeȝȝre sihhþe. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 420 [He told] how sone of his seiȝt þe bestes seþþen ware. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 377 Or be me lief or be me loth, Out of my sighte forth he goth. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 19 For he na tyme suld..be fra hys sicht. 1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Horizon, The circle bounding our sicht. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 18 The visible things are gone out of our sight. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 64 Watchful Herons..Gain on the Skyes, and soar above the sight . View more context for this quotation 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1812) I. vi. 321 The two armies lay in sight of each other. 1778 J. Cook Jrnl. 3 May (1967) III. i. 339 The Chain of Mountains before mentioned is broke by a plain of a few leagues in extent, beyond which the sight was unlimited. 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci i. iii. 19 Now get thee from my sight. c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 76/1 The difficulty experienced by all persons.., is to find what is called their ‘sight’; that is, the focal distance of the lens. < as lemmas |
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