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a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1593) 661 He teacheth Timothie to giue attendance to Doctrine: that is, to make a studie and labour of it.

1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah xiii. 283 Such as set their whole labour on that which is but errour, and make a studie of it.

1701 H. C. De Luzancy Treat. Two Sacraments of Gospel i. v. 100 As if maintaining our Bodies were a work of time and expence, we make a study of it, and a considerable part of our case is how to please those Appetites.

1792 Gentleman's Mag. May 405/2 These new-fangled contrivances can only proceed from..the want of understanding in the purchaser, who, perhaps, never made a study of these matters.

1850 H. Bushnell God in Christ 321 They make a study of the mystic and quietistic writers.

1884 H. Hunter & W. Whyte My Ducats (1885) xxv. 374 Even in the midst of his own troubles, Lynn found himself engaged in making a study of Gertrude.

1935 Science 16 Aug. 145/2 Ernest Hemingway, the well-known author, has been making a study of the blue marlin and other large fishes in Cuban waters.

1969 G. M. Brown Orkney Tapestry 60 Into the riddling region where gods and men negotiated only an elite could trespass—men who had made a long study of the black arts.

2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 17 Apr. iii. 3/3 Orlando Palmeiro, who spot-starts and makes a careful study of pitchers, will tell you that there are some fastball pitchers who barely get out of the 80s.