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单词 to find up
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to find up
to find up
1. transitive. To discover by search. Now chiefly English regional (East Anglian).Said to be ‘a Norfolkism’ by W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 135 (cf. quot. 1799) and to be ‘in everyday use’ in east Suffolk by F. Hall in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 359/2.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)]
findOE
yfindOE
hita1075
befindc1200
out-findc1300
to try outc1325
to find outa1375
to find upc1390
ascryc1400
outwryc1400
inventc1475
vent1611
to hit off1680
discover1762
to scare up1846
to pick up1869
rumble1897
c1390 Charter Abbey Holy Ghost (Laud) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 351 I schal also, he seiþ, fynden vp þe abbesse of þe holy gost & maken aȝeyn here couent & here place, betere þan euere it was.
c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3759 (MED) This dramme fonden vp, was sho noght littelle gladde & myrye.
1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Epidicus ii. iii. in tr. Plautus Comedies 99 Th' old Man order'd me this Morning to find up a Musick-Girl to sing for him at his Sacrifice.
1799 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 260 You have a mind..to find up ‘More Reliques of Rowley’.
1817 W. Taylor Monthly Mag. XLIV. 314 Jerom..found-up a Hebrew original of the first book of Maccabees.
1832 H. Martineau For Each & All vii. 96 I am going into the depths of the city to find up a money lender.
1894 Norfolk Daily Standard in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 359/2 I hope he will be found up and brought speedily to light.
1943 L. R. Haggard & H. Williamson Norfolk Life 29 He could not ‘find up’ a couple of taps needed, and had to buy them.
2. transitive. To contrive, invent; = sense 11. Obsolete.Cf. quot. ?a14391 at finder n. Compounds 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)]
findeOE
conceive1340
seek1340
brewc1386
divine1393
to find outc1405
to search outc1425
to find up?c1430
forgec1430
upfindc1440
commentc1450
to dream out1533
inventa1538
father1548
spina1575
coin1580
conceit1591
mint1593
spawn1594
cook1599
infantize1619
fabulize1633
notionate1645
to make upc1650
to spin outa1651
to cook up1655
to strike out1735
mother1788
to think up1855
to noodle out1950
gin1980
?c1430 J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 279 Tradicions founden vp of synful wrecchis.
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