| 单词 | the half |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto the half Π a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 233 (MED) Þis þou schalt boile in a quart of wyn of paris til it come to þe half [L. ad medium]. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 84 (MED) And all þese þynges be puttyd yn a vessell, so þat it be to þe half. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 366 Sum put hoat ashes..in a vessell of wood, filling it to the half. to (the) half ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > incompletely or partly [phrase] in partc1300 a (also in, of) party1372 to (the) half1547 by halves1563 by fractions1796 a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) ii. iii. 222 I see but at halfes [Fr. à demy]. a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) ii. iii. 240 To be reveng'd at halfes [Fr. à demy]. a1673 J. Caryl in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1870) I. Ps. vi. 8 They do it not to halves, but thoroughly. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 115 Nor did I do this to the halves . View more context for this quotation 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus i. ii. 17 Nor belch to Halves—but of the Clangor proud, Like some substantial Burgo-master, belch aloud. 1793 S. Hopkins Syst. of Doctr. I. i. iv. 223 It is doubtless better..not to preach it at all, than to do it to the halves. < as lemmas |
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