单词 | tantamount |
释义 | † tantamountn. Obsolete. That which amounts to as much, or comes to the same thing; something equivalent (to); an equivalent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > equal, counterpart, or equivalent ylikeeOE likea1200 make?c1225 fellow?a1425 proportion?a1425 countervailc1430 matcha1450 meetc1450 pareil?c1450 resemblant1484 equivalent1502 countermatch1587 second1599 parallel1600 equipollent1611 balancea1616 tantamount1637 analogy1646 analogate1652 form-fellow1659 equivalency1698 par1711 homologizer1716 peel1722 analogon1797 quits1806 correlate1821 analogue1837 representant1847 homologue1848 countertype1855 homologon1871 correlative1875 vis-à-vis1900 counterpart1903 1637 P. Heylyn Briefe Answer Burton 26 You come very neare it, to a tantamont. 1641 W. Prynne New Discov. Prelates Tyranny ii. 216 He pronounced no particular sentence..but he did tant amount or more. 1642 W. Price Serm. 40 Anger, and rancored envy, which..are a Tantamount to murder. 1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar 41 Letters of caption (that is..the tant'amount of the Writ De Excommunicato capiendo). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). tantamountadj. As much; that amounts to as much, that comes to the same thing; of the same amount; equivalent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adjective] > equal in effect or equivalent convertiblec1386 fellowa1393 equipollec1430 answerable1551 countervailable1576 equiparable1611 reciprocal1616 equiparant1625 equiponderant1629 equivalent1639 tantamount1641 equiparate1655 equipollent1664 equal1677 adequative1809 1641 O. St. John Argument of Law 24 If a man take the broad Seale from one Pattent, and put it to another, here he is counterfeiting, it's tantamount, and therefore Treason. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xv. 80 Conjunction, Opposition, and Quadrate go for Tant-amount in the Meteorological Part. 1769 E. Burke Let. 2 July in Corr. (1960) II. 40 Provided instructions, (or thanks, which are tantamount but more respectful,) should be the mode proposed. 1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 224 You..avoid the word, and speak of the Real Presence, as if the terms were tantamount. ΚΠ 1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas 10 Howsoever their tenets by deductions and consequences are tant'amount as theirs. 1645 J. Goodwin Innocency & Truth Triumphing 11 I utterly renounce the consequence, conceiving it to be tantamont with an absolute mistake. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 256 For this is tantamount with the former. 1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn 57 Tant a mount, as if carried from us in Money. c. Const. to. The current use. ΚΠ 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie Introd. sig. B4 That saying of Berosus will prove tantamont to a Text of Scripture. 1659 P. Heylyn Certamen Epistolare 389 They are tantamount to a plain acknowledgement. 1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn 93 They..laid such Impositions on our Woolen Goods, as was tant a mount to a Prohibition. 1777 J. Lovell in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 411 Is not this..tantamount to a disavowal of the first treaty? 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. i. §18 Is not this tantamount to saying that they go on by a force of their own? d. attributively. rare. ΚΠ 1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 17 Giving us express Words, and not words Tantamount. 1798 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1893) XIV. 29 The President; to whom I have expressed tantamount sentiments in more concise terms. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. i. 2 A tantamount service should be given in exchange for them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † tantamountv. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To amount to as much, to come to the same thing; to be or become equivalent. Const. to or unto (something). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > be equivalent amountc1390 to pass for (also as)1463 to come to one purpose1489 weigh1529 to pass muster1573 parallel1626 tantamount1628 to come to the same1643 coextenda1711 muster1820 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. i. § i. 10 They doe tant amount to a feoffment or grant. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. i. § i. 391 It ought to be pardoned specially, or by words which tant amount. 1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) ix. 36 Yet this will not tant'-amount to an immediate Divine institution for Deacons. 1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence iii. 7 His not denying, tantamounteth to the affirming of the matter. 1700 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana (ed. 2) Postscr. sig. A7 Those things.., which may Tantamount to more than an Hundred times its value. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 211 Tant-amounting, in a more reform'd Perfection, to the different Religious Orders. 2. transitive. To amount or come up to (something); to equal. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > amount to or total makeOE amountc1350 be?c1425 draw1425 numbera1450 numbera1586 to sum up1597 give1634 mount1639 tantamount1659 compute1667 muster1810 total1859 subtotal1906 1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 132 Account Hercules Labours; they Twelve tantamount. 1683 Vind. Case relating to Green-Wax-Fines 65 Your peaceable Subjects..whose indearment in that Case will tant-amount the Profits falling short. DerivativesCategories » ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adverb] > equivalently to the (this) same1399 equivalentlya1529 valuably1627 tantamountingly1655 equipollentlya1677 convertibly1710 coextensively1843 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 69 Did it not deserve the Stab of Excommunication, for any dissenting from her practice, tantamountingly to give her the Lie? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1637adj.1641v.1628 |
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