| 单词 | to pass under |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pass under (also by) b. intransitive. to pass under (also by): to be generally known by (a particular name). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > have or bear (name) > be known as to go under the name of1566 to pass under (also by)a1643 a1643 W. Cartwright Siedge ii. ii, in Comedies (1651) sig. H4v Where you are best esteem'd You only pass under the favourable Name Of humble Cozens, that sit below the Salt. 1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. i. 18 The whole Province of Campania had like to have been ruin'd by an Imposition upon the People, which pass'd under the Name of a Coemption. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. App. iii. 518 Davis..discovered the Straits which pass by his name. 1894 T. H. Huxley Evol. & Ethics Prolegom. 13 That progressive modification of civilisation which passes by the name of the ‘evolution of society’. 1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. ii. 38 The recovered wool passes under various names such as mungo, shoddy, alpaca and extract. 1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind xiii. 402 The ceaseless surge of fevers which, in a time of pre-bacteriology, passed under names like ‘putrid fever’. < as lemmas |
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