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单词 to feast one's eyes on
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to feast one's eyes on
a. transitive. To treat (a person, the mind, the eyes, etc.) to a richly pleasurable experience; to delight, gratify, regale (with, on, or upon something). Now esp. in to feast one's eyes on: to gaze at with delight. Cf. a feast for the eyes at feast n. 3.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure to [verb (transitive)]
i-quemec893
ywortheOE
queemeOE
likeOE
likeOE
paya1200
gamec1225
lustc1230
apaya1250
savoura1300
feastc1300
comfort1303
glew1303
pleasec1350
ticklec1386
feedc1400
agreea1413
agreec1425
emplessc1450
gree1468
applease1470
complaire1477
enjoy1485
warm1526
to claw the ears1549
content1552
pleasure1556
oblect?1567
relish1567
gratify1569
sweeta1575
promerit1582
tinkle1582
tastea1586
aggrate1590
gratulatea1592
greeta1592
grace1595
arride1600
complease1604
honey1604
agrade1611
oblectate1611
oblige1652
placentiate1694
flatter1695
to shine up to1882
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c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2938 Hauelok..bigan..His denshe men to feste wel With riche landes.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvii. l. 318 Fiat-uoluntas-tua festeþ hym eche day.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. vii. 33 Feast your eares with the Musicke awhile.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 46 A companion that feasts the company with wit and mirth. View more context for this quotation
1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair v. vi. 46 We'll charm our Ears with Abell's Voice; feast our Eyes with one another.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. xiii. 297 With the Gypsies, he had only feasted his Understanding.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague iii. i. 163 I know not why My soul thus longs to feast itself on terror.
1857 R. A. Willmott Pleasures of Lit. xi. 45 Pope, at twelve feasted his eyes in the picture galleries of Spenser.
1939 J. B. Morton Bonfire of Weeds ii. 83 ‘Poor as a church mouse, eh?’ sneered the tiny intruder, feasting his eyes on the coins.
1977 E. G. H. White Fund. Christian Educ. 162 The mind is feasted upon sensational stories.
2019 Sun (Nexis) 18 July 40 If you're into car games and F1 then feast your eyes on this beauty.
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