单词 | to be lost to |
释义 | > as lemmasto be lost to 5. to be lost to: extracted from lostadj. a. To have passed from the possession of; to have been taken or wrested from. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > lose [verb (transitive)] > be lost to to be lost to1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 479 Other joy To me is lost. View more context for this quotation 1741 J. Ozell tr. P. de B. de Brantôme Spanish Rhodomontades 63 This Battle being lost to us. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. i. 5 My uncle and aunt would have been lost to me: I should not have been allowed to invite them. View more context for this quotation 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 363 The basis of power..was thus of necessity lost to the Five Cantons. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xlii. 65 So then were nothing lost to man. View more context for this quotation 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 10 In the lore long dead, Lost to the hurrying world, right wise she was. b. Of a person: To be so depraved as to be inaccessible (to some good influence); to have no sense of (right, shame, etc.). Also rarely in neutral sense, to be ‘dead’ to, to have lost all interest in. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [verb (transitive)] > be insensible to good influence to be lost to1640 the mind > emotion > indifference > be indifferent or show indifference to [verb (transitive)] > have lost interest in to be lost to1772 1640 J. Shirley St. Patrick iv. sig. F4 Thou lost thing to goodnesse. 1654 State Case Commwealth 8 So lost and loose were that party of men to all former principles. 1682 Heraclitus Ridens 25 July 1/2 Being lost to all humanity. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 30. ⁋1 Who are not so very much lost to common Sense, but that they understand the Folly they are guilty of. 1772 W. Jones Poems 37 Resign'd to heaven, and lost to all beside. 1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall I. vi. 126 A creature lost to reason. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 92 Lost to all sense of religious duty. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 104 He lay as dead And lost to life and use and name and fame. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > forgotten > to the world to be lost to1638 1638 J. Shirley Dukes Mistris iii. iii. F 2 My Lord I know not with what words to thanke Your feeling of my sufferings. I will now Beleeve I am not lost to all the World. 1652 J. Shirley Brothers ii. 19 in Six New Playes (1653) Men whose expectations are like yours, Come not with honour to court such as I am, (Lost to the World for want of portion) But with some untam'd heat of blood. < as lemmas |
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