单词 | to reckon right |
释义 | > as lemmasto reckon right P1. to reckon right: to judge correctly, to come to the right conclusion; to estimate or calculate correctly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > be right [verb (intransitive)] to reckon righta1400 to read right?a1425 to get, have, or take the (or a) wrong (or right) sow by the ear1546 to get (also have) something right1565 to have the right scope of1570 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9228 (MED) Four thusand yeir and sex hundreth, Qua reckens [Fairf. rekkenis, Gött. rekines] right to tell es eth. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 3032 Ther was a womman eke that hight Shame that who can reken right Trespace was hir fadir name. 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 1308 I traist, gif I can reckon richt, Scho schaips to ludge with him all nicht. 1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. A3 Nothing at all, to rekin rycht Different in to Goddis sycht. 1612 J. Davies Muses Sacrifice sig. L And if, I reckon right betweene thy Law And mine obseruance. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 71 This to attain, whether Heav'n move or Earth, Imports not, if thou reck'n right . View more context for this quotation 1701 T. Brett Acct. Church-govt. v. 76 If Edwards reckons right in his Gangræna. 1794 J. Elphinston Fifty Years' Corr. I. cccxxxiii. 43 Dhat won day France should recovver a libberty, lost upwards ov twelv centuries, if we reckon right. 1844 T. C. Haliburton Attaché 2nd Ser. II. xiv. 213 The free nigger..may be President, but he guesses he can't; and he reckons right. 1858 T. D. McGee Canad. Ballads 90 If his bark comes not in sight They deem they have not reckoned right. 1912 L. Abercrombie Emblems of Love 140 There must be hope, if we could reckon right! 1988 Reviews Amer. Hist. 16 120 His contention that President Eisenhower reckoned right about what folks wanted. < as lemmas |
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