| 单词 | book of commonplaces |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbook of commonplaces book of commonplaces n. a book consisting of a collection of commonplaces (senses A. 1a, A. 2a); a book or scrapbook into which interesting quotations, extracts, etc., are copied for personal reference; = commonplace book n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [noun] book of commonplaces1562 adversaria1571 commonplace book1572 stem-book1592 commonplace1607 album1612 commonplacera1631 topic folio1644 place-booka1659 pocketbook1660 blank book1713 scrap-book1825 guard book1839 press book1897 1562 T. Norton in tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (new ed.) Transl. Pref. sig. A.iv Many great learned men haue written bokes of common places of our religion, as Melanchton, Sarcerius, and other. 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme ii. vi. 66 The Theatre of the world is an excercise of Mans wit, not a lazy Polyanthea or book of Common places. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 22. ⁋6 Having by me, in my Book of Common Places, enough to enable me to finish a very sad one [sc. Tragedy] by the Fifth of next month. 1790 Mem. Literary & Philos. Soc. Manch. 4 55 The Anatomy of Melancholy..is so crouded with quotations, that the reader is apt to mistake it for a book of commonplaces. 1893 Birmingham Daily Post 27 Oct. 7/6 The book is not..a mere tyro's book of commonplaces. 1956 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 71 484 I draw these quotations from a book of commonplaces. 2006 H. Jacobson Kalooki Nights iii. 68 The reddest of red threads..looped limply in faded pink, like pressed roses found in a spinster's book of commonplaces. < as lemmas |
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