| 单词 | to draw to a head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto draw to a head 54. A result, an outcome; a conclusion, a culmination; a pitch or peak of intensity, force, etc., typically attained gradually. In later use: esp. a situation where crucial issues must be resolved or addressed, a critical point. Chiefly in various verbal phrases, as to draw to a head, to grow to a head. See also to bring to a head at Phrases 4b, to come to a head at Phrases 4c, to gather to a head at gather v. 19b. [With reference to undesirable developments often with allusion to sense 19a.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [noun] > a conclusion or end finea1300 head1340 conclusion1382 close1399 finishmentc1400 issue1479 pass1542 tittle est Amen1568 wind-up1573 wind-up-all1573 upshot1586 catastrophe1609 come-off1640 period1713 pay-off1926 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > reach highest point to grow to a head1579 culminatea1662 climax1882 peak1937 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > to highest degree > reach highest degree of increase to grow to a head1579 to gather to a heada1616 to come to a head1655 culminatea1662 climax1882 to reach a crescendo1925 to top off1970 to top out1972 the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] > bring to an end or conclusion > bring to a final point or issue to bring, come, etc., to the (or an) upshot1604 issue1650 to draw to a head1678 bring1711 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 183 (MED) He yefþ red huerby me comþ to guode heauede [Fr. a bon chief] and to guode ende of þet me nimþ an hand. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 13v Sith these abuses are growne to heade, and sinne so ripe. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 103 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) To keepe them from growing unto such a head. 1606 Bp. J. Hall Arte Diuine Medit. xxiii. 116 There (which is the heade of all thy felicitie) thine eyes shall see him whom now thine heart longeth for. 1658 J. Owen Of Temptation ii. 23 The season wherein it [sc. temptation] growes to a head. 1678 A. Littleton Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius (at cited word) To draw to a head, or to sum up, recapitulor, in summam colligo. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 88 Now all the impressions of burning desire,..ripen'd by the heat of this exercise, and collecting to a head, throb'd and agitated me with insupportable irritations. 1763 J. Wesley Serm. Reformation Manners 14 Vice is risen to such an head, that it is impossible to suppress it. 1824 T. Carlyle tr. J. W. von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship I. i. vi. 30 Let us hear how your taste for the theatre gradually reached a head. 1888 R. F. Horton Inspiration & Bible (1889) vi. 170 But it is time to draw to a head this somewhat lengthened discussion. 1904 T. Longueville Adventures James II i. 7 Affairs had got to such a head that the imminence of severe fighting in the midland counties became highly probable. 1921 Freeman 28 Sept. 59/2 Propaganda and resentment drew to a head during the general revolutionary movement of last year. 1962 D. M. Lang Mod. Hist. Soviet Georgia viii. 177 Matters reached a head in 1908, when the Russian Exarch of Georgia..was murdered. 2005 Maisonneuve (Canada) Feb. 4/1 George W. Bush is a reckoner, someone who drives things to a head. < as lemmas |
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