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单词 to give one the worse
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to give one the worse
a. With direct and indirect object: To cause to have (a possession); to cause to receive (anything material or immaterial, a benefit or injury); to produce in a person or thing (a state, condition, feeling); to invest or endow with (a quality, a right, a power); to restore (one's health, sight, etc.). Said both of persons and things. †to give one the worse: to worst, defeat.
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the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > cause to be possessed
to set in handc1275
givea1300
fasten1527
lodge1670
a1300 Cursor Mundi 539 Þe ouer fir gis man his sight.
c1340 [see γ. forms].
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 333 To sich folk wolde Crist ȝeue blisse.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 710 Þt suche a meracule for hurre hadde wrouȝt, And ȝeve, for hurre love, þt bysone mon his syȝt.
1532 [see α. forms].
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 55/2 That iubardy so wel passed: it gaue him great pleasure to talke wt him therof.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10404 He greuit þe greke, and geue hym þe worse.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V 55 b To geve men a courage for to go furth, money was fyrst gathered.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 18 b Whereby [a wad] the whole charge of powder being restrained may..give the more force to the bullets.
1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 163 When the pope was able to meet the Emperour in battell and give him the worse.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 75 Finding the Army a meere Chaos, he had given it forme.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxxix. 319 On the death which I hope to give to this Fish, my perfect content depends.
1674 tr. P. M. de la Martinière New Voy. Northern Countries 32 Which they distil..putting in a certain grain which gives it the same strength and intoxication as ours.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts Ded. sig. Aiijv A Person whose Profession and Opportunities have not given him those Advantages which others may boast.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 247 It gives me the Vapours to find People miscalled.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. xxiii. 168 I give you emotion, madam. Forgive me. I have performed my promise.
1773 A. Grant Let. 24 May in Lett. from Mountains (1806) I. 116 Another far-seen object gives sad variety to the prospect.
1803 Pic Nic No. 4. 1 Her restless ambition continues to give alarm in every quarter.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1183 This, in Lord Kenyon's opinion, gave the plaintiff a title to the whole.
1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 iv. 32 Its deep seclusion gives it a peculiar charm.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §3. 176 The King..wept bitterly at the news of his father's death, though it gave him a crown.
1883 Manch. Examiner 22 Nov. 5/4 Currency is given..to a rumour that the Parcel Post is being conducted at a loss of something like £10,000 a week.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 88 Clumsy oars—faugh! they give blisters first And then a horny hand.
1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 115 Burke gave the tone to the mass of English opinion.
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