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to be of (also in) (a) mind

a. to be of (also in) (a) mind (now usually to be of a mind): to be disposed or minded, to purpose, desire (to do something); (occasionally) to be in great mind (also of good mind or in a good mind) (cf. sense 11). of mind: with purpose, or intending (to do something). to bring (also get, etc.) in mind: to persuade. to have (something) in mind: to intend, plan, or determine to do (something).

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the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb]

willeOE

listc1200

to be of (also in) (a) minda1325

to will well that1340

likea1375

to find in one's hearta1393

to have a minda1400

pleasec1450

set1470

to have a mind1530

care1560

fadge1592

please1611

choose1622

offer1639

to feel like1808

the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > forgotten

out of memorya1275

of minda1325

out of mindc1325

forlainc1330

unrememberedc1425

oblivious1535

forgotten1600

unretained1666

unrecollected1733

unrecalled1742

buried1806

evanished1829

unmemoried1829

unrevived1877

spark out1882

a1325 [see sense 9].

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1254 Sire Meliager [was] in gret mynd a man out to sende To ser Alexander.

1505 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 102 We ar and ever was of gude mynde till do this gude tovne..plesour.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccli. 796 Wherof complayntes came to the heryng of the duke of Berrey, who was in mynde to remedy it.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 41/1 He secretly..caused the Quene to be perswaded and brought in the mynd, that it..shold be ieopardous, the king to come vp strong.

1563 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1875) III. 166 The said abbot wes of mynde to dispone..the kirk place [etc.].

1586 Let. Earle Leycester 13 Neither did I it of minde to circumvent her.

1599 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1884) 1st Ser. VI. 40 His Majestie being of gude mynd that the said Sir George be satisfeit of the saidis debursmentis, as ressone requyris.

a1617 P. Baynes Lectures 233 in Comm. First & Second Chapters Colossians (1634) Pharaoh [was] in a good minde, as wee say, to let the people goe.

1632 in R. S. France Thievely Lead Mines, 1629–35 (1951) 151 [They] would..have confederated..with Godfrey Mercer for his grove, haveinge gotten Casson in a mynde for his.

1661 C. Lyttelton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 24 I doe not find my brother of the mind he seemed at first to be of to buy it.

1764 H. Bostwick Let. 10 Dec. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) II. 953 The Indions Said they had maid peas but we was a mind to starve them.

1779 W. Cowper Hypocrisy Detected 12 They..set their wit at work to find What the prophet had in mind.

1814 Gonzanga ii. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre III. 113 Oh lud! if I can but get her in the mind to have me.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast vi. 49 The sail-maker was a Fin, and could do anything he was of a mind to.

1865 Harper's Mag. Oct. 674/2 If the Supreme Court was a mind to make a fool of itself, that was no reason that his court should.

1876 W. Minturn George Douglas (typescript) ii. i. 13 ‘I can eat all you're likely to kill in this campaign.’ ‘Then yeou may if you're a mind tew.’

1877 H. James American vii. 135 ‘I have something better in mind,’ he said; ‘come home with me and finish the evening before my fire.’

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xv. 358 The next morning Susan went shopping. She had it in mind to get the materials for a costume of a certain delicate shade of violet.

1949 H. Preece 6 Mar. in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) ii. iv. 340 Britt Bailey had a mighty fine property..and he was no mind to get out of Texas.

1965 B. Behan Confessions Irish Rebel (1967) 157 I wasn't in mind to be asking further.

1986 J. Nagenda Seasons of T. Tebo ii. iii. 64 We could all do it if we were of a mind to.

1996 Earth Matters Autumn 18/1 I've always been a scribbler—all my family were journalists, and I had in mind to be one, too.

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to be of (rarely †in) mind

e. to be of (rarely †in) mind and variants (with clause or modifying adjective): to hold the specified opinion. to be of (another's) mind: to be of the same way of thinking, or agree in opinion with (another person).

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > form or hold an opinion [verb]

ween971

trowc1000

to be of (the) opinion (that)c1425

to be of (rarely in) mind1567

to take measure(s)1650

to take a fair (also wrong, etc.) measure ofa1797

the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > be in agreement [verb (intransitive)]

accord1340

cordc1380

to be condescendedc1386

to be consentedc1386

consenta1400

intend1421

onec1450

drawc1480

to be of (also in) one (or a) mind?1496

agreea1513

gree?a1513

to draw by one string1558

conspire1579

to meet witha1586

conclude1586

condog1592

consign1600

centre1652

to be of (another's) mind1717

to go all the way (also the whole way) with1829

to sing the same song1846

1567 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 248 The nobility are of mind to suit assistance of the queen.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 66 b I am of this minde, that the making of rime shoulde not make a Poet use naughtie wordes.

1585 J. Stell in T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie Ep. Ded. Hee was alwaies of opinion and minde, that..learning, is not to be sought for in bookes.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. ii. 107 Sweete Yorke, sweete husband, be not of that mind.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 70 He sent me word, if I said his beard was not cut well, hee was in the minde it was.

1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation v. 210 Augustine was of mind, that councils, Bishops, &c. ought not to be objected for triall of controversies, but the holy scriptures onely.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 60 I am of the I[t]alians mind that said Nulla nuova, buona nuova, no newes good newes.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvii. 108 If these men are of the Mind, That they have clearer Ideas of infinite Duration, than of infinite Space.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 334 I don't doubt you'l be of my Mind.

1748 H. Purefoy Let. 28 Jan. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. iv. 80 She is much in the mind she could convince them yours is the better.

1840 R. W. Emerson Thoughts on Mod. Lit. in Uncoll. Prose 1147 Tempestuous storms, which though our meteorologists generally refer to natural causes, yet I am of Bodine's mind, they are more often caused by those aerial devils in their several quarters.

1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Apr. 242 I'm of Bradshawe's mind in the matter.

1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes vi. 74 But Kala was of a different mind.

1971 Shankar's Weekly (Delhi) 4 Apr. 5/4 Local communists had been watching with uneasiness..and were even of the mind that he should be denounced as a CIA spy.

1992 A. Thorpe Ulverton iii. 52 It is a loose, spongy ground, and Farmer Barr was of the mind that, were I to plough it up and sow it to one earth, as I had considered, I would have much trouble with the redweed, or poppy.

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to be of (another's) mind