单词 | resting point |
释义 | > as lemmasresting point resting point n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > resting- or sticking-point resting point1574 sticking place1578 sticking point1814 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) xxxii. 161/1 God..will haue vs to haue some certayne resting poynt, that we may not builde as the Spiders do, but haue stayednesse in him. 1607 Times, Places, & Persons Holie Script. 59 Our true resting point, is the turning againe vnto God, from whose fauour and fellowship we be departed. 1798 F. O'Gallagher Syst. Nature ii. 145 Hence the center of a spherical body is its resting point. 1866 J. H. Newman Dream of Gerontius §3. 24 And memory lacks its natural resting-points, Of years, and centuries, and periods. 1994 Latin Mass Jan. 43/3 Even this is but a resting point, albeit a momentous one. < as lemmas |
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