| 单词 | to make, or pay a visit | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make, or pay (also †give) a visit  b.  Frequently in the phrases  to make, or pay (also †give) a visit,  to return a visit. ΘΚΠ 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 (a) (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.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. < as lemmas  | 
	
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