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单词 to grow to
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to grow to
b. Hence, to grow to: to be an organic or integral part of. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > be (part of) [verb (transitive)] > be the or a component(s) of > be an organic part of
to grow to1600
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 90 Seru. I pray you sir then set your knighthood, and your soldiership aside... Iohn I lay aside that which growes to me. View more context for this quotation
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 62 In time past it [Sicily] grewe to the Brutians countrey [L. Bruttio agro cohaerens], but soone after by the gushing of the sea between, it was plucked from it.
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to grow to
b. to grow to: to arise or come into existence to the benefit or injury of (a person, etc.). Also absol. with omission of to. Obsolete. (Cf. accrue v. 1, 3) the law of growing-to [= Anglo-Norman dreit de accres] : reversion, escheat.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > externalize [verb (transitive)] > attach to as something extrinsic
to grow to1390
annex1395
to wait on or upon ——1579
waita1674
subfix1684
accrete1712
cleave1958
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xii. 18 I schal gedere alle thingis that growen to me [L. quæ nata sunt mihi], and alle my goodis.]
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 12 For the fortune of every chaunce After the goddes purveaunce To man it groweth from above.
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) ix. 130 Ther mought therby groue perell to his estate.
a1475 Bp. Grossetest's Househ. Stat. (Sloane 1986) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 331 No worshippe therby growythe to the lorde.
a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 47 Cloathing to be taken of the issue and profitts growing to the kinge.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 44 Then begynnys to grufe To vs mery chere.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Cvii Reuennues and profyttes that were wont to grow to theyr forefathers.
1587 Lady Stafford in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 210 Nor [shall] any hinderaunce growe to theim by this demize.
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §42 A A Particuler estate which is onelie a Chattell..groweth either by the act of the parties, or by the law.
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest xvi. f. 97v The forfaiture, that doth grow vnto the king, onely for the keeping of Mastiues within a Forrest vnexpeditated.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence vi. 162 Canutus vpon the law of growing-too..took vpon him the possession of the whole realme.
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