| 单词 | to bar by and main |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bar by and main ΘΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] forbidc1000 forrunc1275 forbar1303 before-comec1384 withstanda1400 withholdc1400 prevenec1485 supprime1490 interrupt1497 resist?a1513 prevent1522 discourage1528 prohibit1531 stop1534 forleta1555 bar1559 to bar by and main1567 disbar1567 to cut off1576 embar1577 forestall1579 obvent1588 cancel1594 waylay1625 suppress1651 antevene1655 arceate1657 exarceate1657 interpel1722 stump1858 estop1876 plug1887 pre-empt1957 deter1961 the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > subsidiary by1567 by-endc1610 by-regard1623 by-object1768 sub-target1921 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 13v Refuseth mee and all the wealth, and barres mee by and maine. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 107v Alwayes haue an eye to the maine, whatsoeuer thou art chanced at ye buy. 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man Pref. Diceplayers, that gaine more by the bye then by the maine. 1603 in T. B. Howell State Trials (1816) II. 14 You are fools, you are on the bye, Raleigh and I are on the main; we mean to take away the king and his cubs. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. v. 55 Extend from some fewe Maine Angles Base lines for Boundaries..and from conuenient distances in the same, distantiate euery By. 1639 Sir R. Baker in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxliii. 3 These are but the bye; the main of his aim is at the soul. a1734 R. North Lives of Norths II. 188 Neither was the main let fall, nor time lost, upon the by. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. II. 176 This critic was right in the main, but not by the by; in the general, not in the particular. < as lemmas |
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