单词 | to multiply words |
释义 | > as lemmasto multiply words a. transitive. To use or utter a multiplicity of (words, etc.). to multiply words: to be loquacious or verbose. Conversely, †to multiply silence (obsolete): to be silent. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] to multiply words1340 gagglea1556 glib1596 to run on?c1663 gasha1774 to roll on1861 pan1871 rabbit and pork1949 motormouth1983 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > express copiously [verb (transitive)] > pour out or multiply (words, etc.) multiply1340 lash1529 to boil forth1610 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 218 Huanne þe multepliest þine benes ich nelle none y-here. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Job xxxv. 16 Job..withoute kunnyng woordys multiplieþ [L. verba multiplicat]. a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 34 (MED) Multiplie scilence, for that is voidans of perilles. 1529 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. xiv. 258 No man..shall multiplye langage yn the Courte tyme. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 641/2 I moultiplye langage with one, as folkes do that chyde togyther. ?1530 Dialoges Creatures Moralysed xii. D ij This vale..brak owte and multyplyed greate wordis agayne the hyll. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 100 When they had thus multiplied talke vpon both sydes. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxv. 16 Therefore doeth Job open his mouth in vaine: he multiplieth words without knowledge. View more context for this quotation 1652 J. Chetwind in J. Harington Briefe View Ep. Ded. This Authour..hath avoyded the needlesse multiplying of words. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vii. 132 They avoid nothing more than multiplying unnecessary Words, or using various Expressions. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 328 The attornies and clerks have contrived to multiply words beyond all necessity. View more context for this quotation 1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 425 What he meant by the said premises was evident, and could not have been rendered clearer by saying, all the said premises, though it might have served to multiply words. 1886 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm.: Suppl. Nights I. 1a. 15 This is the reward..of whoso multiplieth words and molesteth his neighbors. 1900 Official Rec. Union & Confederate Navies War of Rebellion (U.S. Naval War Rec. Office) 3rd Ser. IV. 367 February term, 1819; 4 Wheaton's Rep., 316. Unwilling here to multiply words, I pray reference to the decision itself. < as lemmas |
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