| 单词 | to lick into |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lick (a person or thing) into (shape , etc.) 4. to lick (a person or thing) into (shape , etc.), also †to lick over: To give form and regularity to; to mould, make presentable. Alluding to the alleged practice of bears with their young (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > education > [verb (transitive)] tighta1000 teec1000 thewc1175 forma1340 informc1350 nurturec1475 train1531 breeda1568 train1600 to lick (a person or thing) into (shape , etc.)1612 scholar1807 educate1826 the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)] > give proper shape to to lick over1612 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxiv. 70 Beres ben brought forthe al fowle and transformyd and after that by lyckynge of the fader and the moder they ben brought in to theyr kyndely shap.] 1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares ii. sig. Ev He has not lickt his Whelpe into full shape yet. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) Democritus to Rdr. 9 Enforced, as a Beare doth her whelpes, to bring forth this confused lumpe, and had not time to lick it into forme. 1628 H. Wotton Let. 6 Mar. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 444 The Author hath licked them [verses] over. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxviii. 339 Men did not know how to mould and frame it; but at last it was licked into shape. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 4 The play is writ, the Players upon the recommendation of those that lick'd it over, like their parts to a Fondness. 1780 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IX. 509 Mr. Law, by taking immense pains, has licked it into some shape. 1862 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 132 I shall have trouble enough in licking her [a young servant] into shape. 1891 Spectator 12 Dec. 837 Their proposals..would be licked, by debate..into practicable shape. < as lemmas |
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