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单词 thought-executing
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thought-executing
thought-executing adj. (a) acting with the swiftness of thought (usually with allusion to quot. 1608); (b) carrying out a person's thought or intention.
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thought-executing1608
the world > action or operation > carrying out > [adjective] > that executes or performs > the thought of someone
thought-executing1820
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 4 You sulpherous and Thought executing fires. View more context for this quotation
1789 W. Gilbank Day of Pentecost xi. 225 When with thought-executing speed the sound Of—Abraham, Abraham—from an Angel's voice Arrested in mid air th' impending stroke.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 38 Trampled down By his thought-executing ministers.
1842 R. H. Barham Netley Abbey in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 23 Long, long in Thought the patient Earth he curs'd, That bore the Fabric's then unbroken Spires; Long wish'd the Pow'r to bid Volcanos burst, Or call from Heav'n thought-executing fires.
1858 Whitewater (Wisconsin) Reg. 6 Nov. 1/7 The old presses are gone; and here in their stead we have those great thought-executing monsters with lungs of iron and breath of steam.
1951 Times 26 Sept. 7/5 There is an adjacent area, running from the Fens to Northamptonshire, that can be relied on to be comparatively free of thought-executing fires.
2004 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 4 Sept. 10 It is rather depressing to see the same thought-executing tradition being continued in the city council, with the Britannia Football Stadium being built beside a main railway line without a platform for supporters.
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