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单词 to give reason
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to give (also yield, render) (a) reason
(a) to give (also yield, render) (a) reason: to give an account (esp. of or for one's acts or conduct). Obsolete (archaic in later use). [After Anglo-Norman and Old French rendre raison to give an account (of something) (12th cent. in this sense).]
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > explain [verb (intransitive)] > give account of
to give (also yield, render) (a) reasonc1225
reckona1300
count?c1430
explain1611
account1643
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Bodl.) (1981) 810 Hwet const tu to þeos men þet tu þus leadest?.. Ich am her..to ȝelde reisun [c1225 Royal reaisun] for ham.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 66 Of þulli speche..schal uch word beon irikened. & iȝeuen reisun [a1400 Pepys ȝelde rekenynge] hwi þe an hit seide. & te oðer hit lustede.
c1300 St. John Evangelist (Laud) 432 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 415 (MED) Abid me nouþe, and ichulle for þe ore louerd resun ȝelde.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xii. 36 Of euery ydel word that men speken, thei shul ȝelde resoun [L. reddent rationem] therof in the day of dome.
a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 42 (MED) Þe abbes..salle vmbeþinke hir what charge sho hase recaiuid, And þat sho sal yelde resun of alle.
c1475 Mankind (1969) 173 (MED) For euery ydyll worde we must ȝelde a reson.
1558–9 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. lxiii And to gif reson of thair fayth and belief.
1590 T. Nashe (title) First Parte of Pasquils Apologie wherein he renders a Reason of his long Silence and gallops the Fielde with the Treatise of Reformation written by John Penrie.
1661 R. Boyle Hist. Fluidity & Firmnesse ii, in Certain Physiol. Ess. 202 That would not be to render a Reason of the thing propos'd, but in effect to decline rendring any.
1766 Merlinus Liberatus f. A1v It is easier for a Man to quarrel or find fault with any thing than render a Reason of such quarrel-picking.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 229 Ye have an undoubted right to ask your ain son to render a reason of his conduct.
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