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单词 to make, or pay a visit
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to make, or pay (also †give) a visit
b. Frequently in the phrases to make, or pay (also †give) a visit, to return a visit.
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society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)]
seekc1200
to call in1573
call1597
to call upon ——1604
to call on ——a1616
visit1626
to make, or pay (also give) a visit1643
to pay a call1648
viz.1767
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1644 T. Prujean Aurorata ii. E j Romeo..going to give her a visit meetes Tybalt her kinsman.
1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 179 My Ld Shaftsbury did me ye honour ye other day to give me a visit.
1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xvi. 215 (heading) An Abbot gives a Lady a Visit.
1709–10 R. Steele Tatler No. 128. ⁋7 He came to give our Family a formal Visit.
(b)1643 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 636 There is no obligation but that of love, to make a visit.a1699 A. Halkett Autobiogr. (1875) 3 I doe nott remember that I made a visitt to ye neerest neibour.1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 124. ⁋1 I went on Saturday last to make a Visit in the City.1753 E. Moor in World I. No. 11. 87 She made him a visit of a month, and at his entreaty would have settled with him for ever.1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 224 Making him a visit, I found him in the great hall.1823 J. Simpson Ricardo the Outlaw I. 241 She promised that in two years, at longest, she would make them a visit.1885 W. W. Story Fiammetta 195 You promised you would make me a visit in the autumn.(c)1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. v. 489 Surena..by this visit, was in a few dayes able to pay me one.1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 24. ⁋6 Let us pay Visits, but never see one another.1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 40 The Dutch Captain..came off in his Shallop..to pay his Visit to me.1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 232 The visit paid, with extasy we come As from a seven years transportation, home.1835 Court Mag. 6 186/1 I quitted Oxford, and paid a visit to a maiden lady dwelling in the Orange Grove.1855 Ld. Tennyson To Rev. F. D. Maurice xii When the wreath of March has blossom'd,..Or later, pay one visit here, For those are few we hold as dear.figurative.1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 3 Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid.(d)1677 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 37 I missed my nephew Anthony the other day who Lady Shaftesbery sent to see me, and I am now going to returne his visit.1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 380 I return'd my visits at 3 weeks end.1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xvi. 159 My wife and daughters happening to return a visit.
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