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单词 to make against
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to make against ——
to make against ——
1. intransitive. To be unfavourable to; to militate or tell against. Cf. sense 55b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > contrary evidence > contradict, go against [verb (transitive)]
traverse1491
to make against ——a1540
contradict1593
to give the lie (to)1593
dementie1594
belie1624
militate1642
contravenea1670
disconfirm1827
contra-indicate1880
a1540 R. Barnes Lawfull for Priestes to marry Wiues in W. Tyndale et al. Wks. (1573) ii. 315/1 The texte maketh agaynst the Pope.
1649 J. Milton Observations in Articles of Peace with Irish Rebels 56 The third Reason which they use, makes against them.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xxviii. 65 Ocular Experience makes against this.
1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous iii. 139 That which makes equally against two contradictory Opinions, can be a Proof against neither.
1720 in Notes & Queries (1986) Mar. 18/1 A Man must not use weak Arguments, or such as may make against him, when he intends to persuade the Thing he says.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. iii. 439 He sought out whatever could make against the orthodoxy of the new prelate.
1890 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 165/2 Figures, if you carefully select those which make for you, and as carefully ignore those which make against you, can..be made to prove anything.
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xv. 185 All that makes against our efficiency—the memory of our failures, the hints of our undying fears, the bodies of our dead friends.
2. intransitive. To make a hostile movement towards; to go to attack. Cf. sense 70b. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > make hostile approach to
runOE
to seek on (also upon)c1230
pursuec1300
yerna1400
seek1487
visitc1515
coast1531
accost1597
to come at ——1601
to make against ——1628
to make at ——1637
tilt1796
rush1823
to come for ——1870
to move in1941
bum-rush1988
1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1629) i. 26 The Corcyræan's vnderstanding that they [sc. the Corinthians] made against them [ὡς ἤσθοντο αὐτοὺς προσπλέοντας].
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