| 单词 | to search out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto search out to search out 1. transitive. To examine (something) closely; to scrutinize; esp. to examine or scrutinize (someone's thoughts, feelings, motives, etc.). Cf. sense 5a.In quot. a1382: to subject (a text) to minute scrutiny or criticism. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)] through-seekOE gropea1250 to search outa1382 ensearch1382 boltc1386 examinea1387 ransackc1390 ripea1400 search1409 overreach?a1425 considerc1425 perquirec1460 examec1480 peruse?1520 grounda1529 study1528 oversearch1532 perscrute1536 scrute1536 to go over ——1537 scan1548 examinate1560 rifle1566 to consider of1569 excuss1570 ripe1573 sift1573 sift1577 to pry into ——1581 dive1582 rub1591 explore1596 pervestigate1610 dissecta1631 profound1643 circumspect1667 scrutinize1671 perscrutatea1679 introspect1683 rummage1690 reconnoitre1740 scrutinate1742 to look through1744 scrutiny1755 parse1788 gun1819 cat-haul1840 vivisect1876 scour1882 microscope1888 tooth-comb1893 X-ray1896 comb1904 fine-tooth comb1949 the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > mind, soul, spirit, heart > introspection > direct inwards [verb (transitive)] > examine one's soul examine1340 to search outa1382 searcha1400 soul-search1946 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) 1 Esdras Prol. l. 65 (MED) Reden þei þat wiln, þat wiln not kaste þei awei, & serche þei out þe lettres [L. Eventilent apices], & falsli acuse þei þe lettres. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxxxviii. A O Lorde, thou searchest me out, and knowest me. ?1590 W. Perkins Treat. Damnation or Grace To Rdr. sig. A7 It is an harde thing for a man to search out his owne heart. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. vii. 12 Search out thy wit for secret pollicies, And we will make thee famous through the World. View more context for this quotation 1672 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy (ed. 8) 101 They might always be fit to receive holy Inspirations, and always ready to search out the mind of God. 1763 C. Churchill Conference 18 Should They, abroad by Inquisitions taught, Search out my Soul, and damn me for a thought. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xx. 295 We feel as if we saw the tokens of His presence..; coming and going in an awful way, as if to gaze upon us, and search out our very thoughts. 1942 J. R. Rice Prayer, Asking, Receiving xix. 295 So daily, before sundown every day, search out your heart, judge every little grudge. 2009 D. W. Clanton Daring, Disreputable, & Devout v. 136 Mordecai leaves and Esther is left alone to search out her conscience. 2. a. transitive. To look for (someone or something) until found; to make diligent efforts to find (that which one seeks). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search about for to search out?a1400 to look about1536 to feel after ——?1557 study1561 to feel for ——1569 to look out for1578 to lay out1624 to look round1630 to lay about1755 prospect1854 roust1870 to look around1927 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 8172 Sir Eymer had no drede, he serchid þam alle oute. 1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello Tragicall Hist. Romeus & Iuliet f. 5v Yong damsels thether flocke, of bachelers a rowte: Not so much for the banquets sake, as bewties to searche out. 1678 J. Dryden Ess. (1900) I. 193 I judged it both natural and probable, that Octavia..would search out Cleopatra to triumph over her. 1716 J. Perry State of Russia 62 The Czar also has Intentions to send Ships to search out the Eastermost Parts of the Caspian Sea. a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xciv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 326 Whilst they [sc. the Fates] search out dooms, They sit apart and feed on honeycombs. 1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite iii. 220 Those hill-hidden touns through the parks of which he'd searched out the flints. 2015 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 16 Aug. (Herald-Times ed.) e7/1 Social workers and volunteers..search out anyone who is described..as homeless. b. transitive. To find out or discover (something) by close inquiry, study, scrutiny, etc.; to discover (a fact, some information, etc.). Also in early use: to devise, invent, contrive; = sense 12a. Cf. to find out 2 at find v. Phrasal verbs.Some 16th- and 17th-cent. examples with an interrogative clause as object (see, e.g., quot. 1631) could be interpreted as having the sense ‘inquire’ (cf. sense 3c) and hence as belonging to 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)] findeOE conceive1340 seek1340 brewc1386 divine1393 to find outc1405 to search outc1425 to find up?c1430 forgec1430 upfindc1440 commentc1450 to dream out1533 inventa1538 father1548 spina1575 coin1580 conceit1591 mint1593 spawn1594 cook1599 infantize1619 fabulize1633 notionate1645 to make upc1650 to spin outa1651 to cook up1655 to strike out1735 mother1788 to think up1855 to noodle out1950 gin1980 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > by searching or tracking down > and bring to light to search outc1425 to hunt out1576 unrip?1576 to ferret out1577 to fetch up1608 fish1632 prog1655 rummage1797 rout1814 exhume1819 excavate1840 ferret up1847 unearth1863 fossick?1870 exhumate1881 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) Prol. l. 163 (MED) The trewe knowyng schulde haue gon to wrak..Ne hadde oure elderis cerched out and souȝt The sothefast pyth..Of thinges passed. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2742 (MED) Medea..hath ful streytly cerched out & souȝt A redy weye vn-to hir purpos. c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 172 (MED) The disciples of studye and of wysedom..ben applied to serge out the highnesse of the clere reioyssyng sterre. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 18 Fyrst therfor..we wyl serche out as nere as we can, what ys the veray & true Commyn wele. 1571 T. Digges in L. Digges's Geom. Pract.: Pantometria sig. Cc j v Octaedrons side giuen, to searche out all his conteyned bodies, sides, diameters and axes. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Scotl. xi. 13/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I I haue not a litle trauayled, and with no small diligence indeuoured to search out the truth hereof. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre Induct. sig. A7 in Wks. II Any State-decipherer,..so solemnly ridiculous, as to search out, who was meant by the Ginger-bread-woman, who by the Hobby-horse-man, [etc.]. a1656 J. Hales Serm. at Eton (1673) iv. 57 Think we then to..search out those causes which God hath locked up in his secret treasures? 1692 Bp. E. Hopkins Expos. Lord's Prayer 123 There is an Exploratory Temptation, to search out and discover what is in Man. 1767 J. Gill Diss. conc. Antiq. Hebrew-Lang. iv. 212 He gave his mind to search out the meaning of every apex, tittle, and point in it. 1887 Weekly Times 25 Feb. 8/1 His primary object is to search out the truth. 1967 Canberra Times 16 Nov. 14/4 We want the Senate to conduct an inquiry to search out the facts, sift the evidence, and propose remedies for consideration by the national Parliament. 2012 R. Minjarez & M. A. Minjarez Spiritual Honey 179 You don't have to believe that, but you should at least search out what the Word of God says. c. intransitive. With for. To make careful or thorough attempts to find or discover someone or something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > patiently and carefully to search out?1560 to mouse out1853 ?1560 tr. J. Calvin Two Godly & Notable Serm. sig. eiiii None wyll searche out for the oryginall, when he hathe the copie autentique. 1671 tr. J. de Palafox y Mendoza Hist. Conquest of China by Tartars x. 214 They did with all diligence search out for him, menacing all persons who concealed him any longer with death. 1774 Monthly Misc. July 43/1 The spirit of the Danish laws approves not of this cruel monopoly; and industriously searches out for as many inheritors as nature has appointed. 1841 E. Maltby Charge to Clergy of Durham 7 I should act in a manner at variance with the obligations imposed by my office, if I were to search out for such topics only as I judged might be pleasing or acceptable to you. 1920 F. A. McKenzie ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson ix. 135 We don't particularly search out for wealthy men. 2007 Horizons (British Airways) May 77 I have been obsessed with diamonds for years, searching out for rose-cuts at lowly flea markets and marquises in Fifth Avenue palaces. < as lemmas |
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