| 单词 | to quit cost |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto quit (the, one's) cost c. transitive. To be equal to; to match, balance, redress. Frequently in to quit (the, one's) cost. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > be equivalent to quitc1375 countervailc1380 containa1387 value1561 to go for ——1574 countervalue1581 weigh1583 avail1598 reanswer1598 commeasure1615 imply1634 equivalence1646 equivale1659 c1375 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 3564 She that bar the ceptre..Shal bere a distaf hire cost for to quyte. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 185 (MED) To tile a feeld, me most ha diligence..A litel tiled wel wul quyte expence. a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 5700 (MED) Eche creature of nature hym delitith, That on good turne another quytith. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. ix The rough otes be the worst..and it quyteth nat the cost to sowe them. 1552 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 123 And if it would quit cost or more to go forward withal. 1608–11 Bp. J. Hall Epist. i. viii, in Wks. (1627) 288 Nothing can quite the cost and labour of trauell, but the gaine of wisdome. a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor i. i. 4 in Five New Playes (1659) It is not grief can quit a fathers blood. 1738 tr. S. Guazzo Art of Conversat. 54 Another begins thus; ‘I can quit your story with just such another of a like Mischance.’ 1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 106 Nor would that country quit the cost of being retained against the will of the inhabitants. 1849 J. F. Cooper Sea Lions II. ix. 126 That would hardly quit cost, Daggett; it would bebetter to come over and pass the heel of the winter with us, when the supplies get to be short here. 1869 G. A. Simcox Poems & Romances 124 They cannot quit its cost, Giving gems and fairy gold Till they find the mystic token. < as lemmas |
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