| 单词 | to formalize upon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto formalize upon b. intransitive. To cavil, raise scruples; to take umbrage; also, to affect scruples. to formalize upon: to scruple at, demur to, haggle over.[Cf. French se formaliser, to take umbrage.] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > objection > object [verb (intransitive)] opposec1380 repugna1382 object?a1425 to stick at ——1525 quarrel1570 except1597 formalize1597 demur1639 the mind > language > statement > objection > object [verb (transitive)] strivea1400 objectc1443 repugna1513 controlc1525 to lay something in a person's light1530 pass1534 take1542 to think (it) much1548 challenge?1577 except1577 except1597 to formalize upon1597 formalize1599 scruple1627 demur1827 1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 57 But, because such as delight in this pastime, will formalize..I will not altogether condemne it. 1641 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 41 Ye kings answer to ye parlement..is now to noe purpose. Ye house haveing formalized uppon it, ye king hath recalled it. 1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 216 Some of the townes suspecting the intention began to formalise. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Life (1761) I. iii. 148 Particulars..which the Officers on the King's Side, (who had no Mind to a Cessation) formalized much upon. 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. xvii. xi, in Wks. 489 It seems a strange Thing..that Archelaus should be now Formalizing about his Title to a Kingdom, after so absolute an Exercise of sovereign Power over it already. 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 7 He went, not only willingly but ambitiously, and formalised upon nothing that led towards the end he most earnestly desired. a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) I. xii. 418 He..told him that they had formalized at his professions. < as lemmas |
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