单词 | to feast one's eyes on |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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 fancy- 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. < as lemmas |
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