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单词 to give aim
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to give aim
P2. to give aim: to provide guidance or assistance in aiming something (originally a shot with a bow), esp. by giving information about the accuracy of a preceding shot; (later also more generally) to give guidance or direction. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > practise archery [verb (intransitive)] > guide archer
to give aim1545
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 39 Gyuyng Ame..hindreth Ye knowlege of shotyng, & maketh men more negligente.
1578 B. Rich Allarme to Eng. sig. D.iij There be suche a many that doe stande and giue aime.
a1595 R. Southwell Humble Supplication (1600) 85 Helples creatures..dayly are drawen neerely to the brinke of a generall distruction, which some that giue ayme to your Maiesty seeme willing that you shuld discharge vpon vs.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. C3 I my selfe gave ayme, thus; wide, foure Bowes; short, three and a halfe.
1642 D. Rogers Matrimoniall Honovr viii. 182 What is this, save to give ayme to a chaste woman, to be lewd?
a1680 S. Butler Char. (1908) 253 His bus'ness is to stand by and give aim, to fill glasses and tobacco-pipes, [etc.].
1699 J. Collier Def. Short View Eng. Stage 112 This is an Admirable Lady to..give Aim to the Audience!
1721 B. Grosvenor Prepar. for Death 37 Those heavenly Views, that yield Support to the dying Patient, and give aim to the Soul in its Flight from this lower World.
1845 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 416/2 The preacher must know men as they are, to give aim to his endeavors to make them what they should be.
1856 G. Dodd Pict. Hist. Russ. War xi. 406/2 Sheets of fire were vomited forth by the ranks of infantry, each flash giving aim to the volley next succeeding.
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