| 单词 | to do evil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do evil 2. to do evil, †say evil. (In post-inflectional English hardly distinguishable from use of evil adv.) †with evil: with evil intention. †to take in, or to, evil: to take (a thing) ill; also, to be hurt by. ΚΠ c825 Vesp. Psalter xiv. [xv.] 3 Ne he dyde ðæm nestan his yfel. 971 Blickl. Hom. 51 He us þonne forgyldeþ swa we nu her doþ, ge godes ge yfeles. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) v. 11 Eadige synt ge þonne hi wyriað eow and ehtað eow and secgeað ælc yfel [L. omne malum] ongen eow. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) v. 29 Þa þe god worhton farað on lifes æreste, and þa þe yfel [L. mala] dydon on domes æreste. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. viii. 23 ‘And whoso synneth’, I seyde ‘doth yuel, as me þinketh’. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 23183 For good & euele þat þei dud ere. c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 2494 Mi lordes..Take it not in euel that I say here. c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 3972 That stroke Generides to yuel nam. c1450 (c1400) Emaré (1908) 535 Another letter she made with evyll. ?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. d.v If folk bakbyte vs & sey iuell of vs: shal we so greuousli take hit: that lest thei shulde sey yuel we shulde begin to do yuel? 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kivv/2 To do Euil, malefacere. 1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. v. 1 They consider not that they doe euill. View more context for this quotation 1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni 29 He does no evil. < as lemmas |
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