| 单词 | rule and line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrule and line (also measure, square) (b) rule and line (also measure, square): a standard against which something may be gauged, determined, or regulated. ΚΠ 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities f. 13 Hit semed to vs conuenient to folowe, as a certayne rule and lyne [L. ueluti regulam, et amussim quandam sequi]..the wytnesse of reason and nature. 1549 E. Allen tr. L. Juda Paraphr. Reuelacion S. John f. 9, in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II As the Christen religion shalbe restored and reformed after the rule and square of holy scripture. 1615 J. Ainsworth Trying out of Truth 17 They [sc. the Scriptures] are of God; and if from him, then are they canonical, the rule and mesure of our faith and actions. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 59 Moneys were inuented and made by common consent to be the rule and square to set a price vnto all things. 1703 Athenian Oracle II. 246/2 That laudable Disposition, which is the Rule and Square of all others. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. xxx. 113 If our scanty Experience were made the rule and measure of Truth. 1824 Christian Observer Sept. 542/2 Are we to be surprised that the word of God will not submit to the rule and square of human systems? 1894 L. J. Wylie Stud. Evol. Eng. Crit. i. 42 The average genius of the age..could measure them [sc. English writers] by no other standard than the rule and line of the French or of the ancients. 1915 Pacific Reporter 143 732/1 Legitimate recoupment for fraud under a rule and measure thoroughly well settled. 1985 J. C. Jacobs in tr. Fables of Odo of Cheriton 169 In Odo's fables, creatures biblically destined to be ruled by Man..provide the rule and measure by which human actions are judged. < as lemmas |
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