单词 | to converse with books |
释义 | > as lemmasto converse with books ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > have to do with or be involved in or with to have to do with (also mid, of, on)lOE meddle1413 intromit1522 fretc1540 make1564 to have a finger in1583 converse1592 cope with1594 trade1595 play1928 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. O2v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) You that conuerse in these & such like actions. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. H3 O world thou art too subtile, For honest natures to conuerse withall. 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 156 When they converse in those things they doe not affect. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. v. §5 Since he hath conversed more with the Orientall traditions. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 618 Wheresoever he treads, he sinks, and converses with a Bottomless Pit. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xxxi. 354 That ministers should converse in this catechism, and learn true divinity from it. 1719 J. Richardson Sci. Connoisseur 204 By conversing with the Works of the Best Masters. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. viii. 172 He had indeed conversed so entirely with Money. View more context for this quotation 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 409 A man..who has conversed, not only with books, but with lawyers and merchants..statesmen and princes. < as lemmas |
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