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单词 to make oneself even
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to make oneself even
a. To settle or square accounts with a person; to settle up, pay one's debts (literal and figurative) (also in early use to make oneself even). Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > be, get, or declare oneself even
to make oneself evenc1390
to cry quittance1579
to cry (a person) quit1590
to cry quits1625
to start faira1637
to get hunk (with)1845
c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 128 For heer but ȝif we make vs euene, Þer may no miht ne ȝiftes ȝeyne.
1578 A. Golding tr. Seneca Conc. Benefyting vi. v. f. 85v This dout..when the same man that hath doon mee a good turne dooth mee afterward a displeasure, whither ought I both too requyte his good turne, and yet neuerthelesse too bee reuenged of him, and so to make euen with him seuerally, as in seuerall respects: or else [etc.].
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe Ep. Ded. sig. A2v By that time his Tobacco marchant is made euen with..his purse is on the heild.
1622 S. Ward Christ All in All (1627) 36 When he had distributed all he had to the poore, and made euen with his reuenues, etc.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 25 June (1970) II. 126 I made even with my father and the two drapers for the cloths I sent to sea lately.
1745 Iberian Novels i. 38 in Iberian Tales & Novels He had no great Matter left, when he had made even with all the Creditors.
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