| 单词 | to make mean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make mean A lament or complaint; a mournful sound. Now chiefly in to make mean, to make a (also one's) mean. Cf. moan n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] carea1000 sorrowingOE meaninga1200 moan?c1225 mourning?c1225 plaint?c1225 ruthc1225 weimerc1230 mean?c1250 sorrow?c1250 dolec1290 plainingc1300 woec1300 dolourc1320 mourna1350 waymentingc1350 penancec1380 complaintc1384 lamentationc1384 complainingc1385 moaninga1400 waiminga1400 waymenta1400 waymentationc1400 dillc1420 merourec1429 plainc1475 regratec1480 complainc1485 regretc1500 lamenting1513 doleance1524 deploration1533 deplorement1593 condolement1602 regreeting1606 imploration1607 pother1638 dolinga1668 moanification1827 dolence1861 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > instance or act of lamenting moan?c1225 mean?c1250 bimena1325 lamentation1382 queryc1400 pinec1440 tragedy1536 lamentc1592 complaint?1606 conclamation1627 quiritation1634 throb1635 pathetic1667 dismals1774 jeremiad1780 complain1820 tangi1836 Jobism1855 wail1867 rune1922 vigil1956 ?c1250 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 113 To þe ne dar i clepien noht, to hire ich make min mene. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 19758 Widvten ani mene or sare. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 153 Thar petuous mene as than couth nocht be bett. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 286 This bischope..maid his meane and complent to the lord Home. 1638 in A. Maxwell Hist. Old Dundee (1884) 388 [The elderly vicar] being oft times requirit, would propone nothing but only ane mein ‘Vaiked sea’ and that..the bishop..would deprive him of his place. a1743 J. Relph Misc. of Poems (1747) 2 Away I sleeng'd, to grandy made my mean. 1828 P. Buchan Anc. Ballads & Songs N. Scotl. II. 190 ‘Make never meen for me’, she says. 1904 Dennison's Orcadian Sketches (new ed.) 25 Sometimes hid was like a bothy i' terrable pain, makin' meen. 1934 John o' Groat Jrnl. 19 Jan. in Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) Faigs, A mak' nae mein if Willag gets a sta' for Roggey's bul'. 1954 New Shetlander No. 40. 7 Bit afore lang da maas medd menn, first ava pleepsit wye, dan wi a klaagin is an dey'd büne raameest an tirn. to make mean(s) a. In plural. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [noun] erndinga1000 mediationa1387 advocacyc1390 mediacya1425 meanc1450 moyen1454 interposition1462 mean1465 myance?a1513 advocation1532 intercession1534 advocateship?1555 intercessionment1593 interceding1600 intermise1612 means-making1617 intermission1647 interposal1687 spoke1867 c1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) (1886) 130 Sche made grete menys and grete preiors. 1456 in C. Innes & P. Chalmers Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc (1856) II. 88 And the boundis of it ar accordit be trety and the menys off thir personis. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKiiv By whose suffrage, intercession and meanes, we be holpen in this lyfe. 1536 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 498 Youre grase hys good mens. 1591 H. Unton Corr. (1847) 237 Great meanes have been made for him. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 78 Our brother is imprisoned by your meanes . View more context for this quotation a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 191 Sir Henry Mildmay had made his meanes to the Duke of Buckingham..for carriage..of the Present designed to the Ambassador. b. In singular. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [noun] erndinga1000 mediationa1387 advocacyc1390 mediacya1425 meanc1450 moyen1454 interposition1462 mean1465 myance?a1513 advocation1532 intercession1534 advocateship?1555 intercessionment1593 interceding1600 intermise1612 means-making1617 intermission1647 interposal1687 spoke1867 1465 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 143 My lord of Norwich, by the meane of Master John Selot, had geue a jugement in the mater of the presentacion for the chirche of Drayton. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 239 (MED) He was sente ageyne the kynge of Araby thro meane of Cleopatra [L. ad petitionem Cleopatræ]. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 Thurgh the meane of the Mediatrice of Mercy. 1510 Hours Blessed Virgin 91 Give us the life that ever doth excell, Through thy prayer & speciall meane. 1535 Goodly Prymer in Eng. sig. L.iij They must nedes fyrst make meane vnto hym [sc. a temporal prince] by some man that is in his fauour. 1565 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. i. 567 The mr Maxwell..to reconcile my meane, on his knees entreated me to hear [etc.]. 1570 R. Sempill Poysonit Schot (single sheet) How the same began to be suppressit: Be Murrayis meane we haif experience. < as lemmas |
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