| 单词 | to serve one's end(s |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto serve one's end(s a. An intended result of an action; an aim, purpose. (Cf. Latin finis.) to accomplish one's end(s, to answer one's end(s, to fulfil one's end(s, to gain one's end(s, †to make one's end(s, to serve one's end(s: see those verbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object willeOE errand?c1225 purposec1300 endc1305 emprisec1330 intentc1340 use1340 conclusionc1374 studya1382 pointc1385 causec1386 gamea1393 term?c1400 businessc1405 finec1405 intentionc1410 object?a1425 obtent?a1475 drift1526 intend1526 respect1528 flight1530 finality?1541 stop1551 scope1559 butt?1571 bent1579 aiming point1587 pursuitc1592 aim1595 devotion1597 meaning1605 maina1610 attempt1610 design1615 purport1616 terminusa1617 intendment1635 pretence1649 ettle1790 big (also great) idea1846 objective1878 objective1882 the name of the game1910 the object of the exercise1958 thrust1968 c1305 Edmund Conf. in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 72 Hit schal ȝut likie wel bi þan ȝ e wite þan ende. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. D1 The Sadlers next end is to make a good saddle. a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1634) 232 A right end never hath a crooked rule leading to it. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 184 They study..not to make their ends on any mans weaknesse. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 174 This answer'd my End. 1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. in Wks. (1871) III. 304 I have no end to serve but truth. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. iii. 260 She had fully gained her end. 1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds vii. 88 I am rather afraid of our people mistaking the means for the end. 1857 D. Jerrold St. Giles x. 102 [He] was delighted..that the ends of justice would be satisfied. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 323 They may fairly use a little violence in order to accomplish their end. < as lemmas |
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