| 单词 | to make boot of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make boot of ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > [noun] mainOE mightOE strengthOE efficace?c1225 bootingc1300 effectc1390 powera1393 boota1400 efficacity1430 operationc1450 valure1483 feck1495 efficacy1527 effectualness1545 effectuousnessa1576 validity1593 effectiveness1607 workingness1611 efficaciousnessa1628 operativeness1627 efficiency1633 effectualitya1641 energy1668 availablenessa1676 availment1699 potentialness1727 affectingnessa1774 effectivity1838 efficience1865 well working1879 the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial to [verb (transitive)] > take advantage of to take (the) advantagea1393 prosecute1594 to make boot of1606 to lay hold (up)on, ofa1715 to trade upon ——1832 to trade on ——1843 market1906 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 89 (MED) Quat bote is to sette traueil On thyng þat may not auail. c1420 Anturs of Arth. xvi I bare the of my body, quat bote is to layne? 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 1082 But cum scho to the Kings presence, Thair is na buit for vs to byde. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 448 Agayne þe wyles of wemen to wer is no bote. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii.xi. sig. Nn4 O spare thy happy daies, and them apply To better boot. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 159 Then lose they all the sheates, but to no boot. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 22 a They..lost all that before they had made boot of. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. i. 9 Giue him no breath, but now Make boote of his distraction. View more context for this quotation 1681 R. Knox Hist. Ceylon (1781) 333 We thought it no boot to sit longer..and so took up our bags, and fled. 1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 272 To no boot, frustra. < as lemmas |
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