| 单词 | to run off from bias |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run off from (one's) bias 4. intransitive. To move away (from something) in reasoning, discussion, etc.; to digress; to diverge, deviate. In early use sometimes more fully †to run off from (one's) bias (with allusion to the characteristic motion of bowls; cf. bias n. 2a(a) and sense 21a). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > digress overleapc1400 to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500 digress1530 traverse1530 decline?1543 square1567 rovea1575 deviate1638 to step aside1653 swerve1658 to sally out1660 transgress1662 to run off1687 canceleera1697 cantona1734 excurse1748 to travel out of the record1770 divagate1852 desult1872 sidetrack1893 1687 E. Stillingfleet Doctr. Trinity & Transubstant. ii. 3 I see you have a mind to change your Discourse, and to run off from the Trinity to the Churches Authority in Matters of Faith. 1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian i. 4 Still you run off from biass; say what moves Your present spleen? 1698 E. Settle Def. Dramatick Poetry 28 In this Authority of Ovid, our Learned Observator, quite forgets himself, and runs off from his Theme. 1734 D. Waterland Importance Doctr. Trinity i. 32 [This] is running off from the Question about the Scriptural-Proof of the Doctrine, to the natural Possibility of the Thing. 1768 S. Roe Another Pertinent & Curious Let. 27 He is run off from his bias—is gone beyond his depth; his rational faculties are immerged. 1861 Temple Bar 3 552 Then my lady ran off to tell us how dull Fernwood was. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue ii. 142 It [sc. the word whole] has since run off from sense of hale, sound.., into that of complete. 1890 Proc. Philadelphia County Med. Soc. 11 250 The discussion has run off from the original text. 1924 ‘L. Malet’ Dogs of Want iii. 72 We do seem to keep running off from Marie Louise and Mr. Fisher, don't we? < as lemmas |
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