单词 | to be at cost |
释义 | > as lemmasto be at cost ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend or incur expense [verb (intransitive)] spenec1175 spend1297 to do or make (the) cost(s)c1325 costc1384 to be at charge or at charges?1542 to be at cost?1548 to spend and be spent1611 disburse1615 to lug out1684 tap1712 part1864 ?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) iii. sig. Bb.viiv They will be nomore at cost to haue the ayer beaten and Idols perfumed wyth theyr sensers. 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxv. 112 Yet of more multeous Armies we than Scotland were at cost. 1633 D. Rogers Treat. Two Sacraments Gospell ii. 78 We..have chosen rather to be at cost with God, than to forgoe the knowledge of his truths. a1659 R. Brownrig 65 Serm. (1674) I. i. 5 Obed-Edom had been at cost with God's Ark. 1704 B. Jenks Second Cent. Medit. vii. lxvi. 268 Their Case's Necessity may put 'em, not only upon Affability, but Liberality: to carry Sweet, and also be at Cost. 1839 A. P. Perceval Serm. xiii. 230 It is only these who are willing to be at cost and pains in their Master's service here, in hopes to be blessed by Him hereafter. < as lemmas |
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