| 单词 | to prove practics |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto prove practics 4. A stratagem, a trick, a deception; (as a mass noun) machination, cunning, deceit. †to prove practics: to indulge in or practise trickery (obsolete). Scottish after Middle English. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] listOE wiþercraftc1175 wilta1230 craftc1275 sleightc1275 engine?a1300 quaintisec1300 vaidiec1325 wilec1374 cautelc1375 sophistryc1385 quaintnessc1390 voisdie1390 havilon?a1400 foxeryc1400 subtletyc1400 undercraftc1400 practic?a1439 callidityc1450 policec1450 wilinessc1450 craftiness1484 gin1543 cautility1554 cunning1582 cautelousness1584 panurgy1586 policy1587 foxshipa1616 cunningnessa1625 subdolousness1635 dexterity1656 insidiousnessa1677 versuteness1685 pawkiness1687 sleight-hand1792 pawkery1820 vulpinism1851 downiness1865 foxiness1875 slimness1899 slypussness1908 α. β. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. x. 66 A prattik of weir devys will I.1568 W. Dunbar in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 251 Of quhome the gled dois prectikis [a1586 the peirtrikis] preif.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 316 To occupie the toune with sum prattick or policie.1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 100 Thou'rt always proving pratticks.1746 W. Forbes Dominie Depos'd (1765) 35 But time that tries such proticks past, Brought me out o'er the coals fu' fast.1776 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) II. 261 Pratick, practice, art, stratagem. Priving pratick, trying ridiculous experiments.1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 293 Habbie was nae gi'en to proticks, But guided it weel eneuch.1829 J. Hay Poems 103 But curse sic hounds as Hare and Burke, Wha play their protics i' the dark.1856 G. Henderson Pop. Rhymes Berwick 168 Hade ye but played your praticks weel.1897 E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches xviii You'll need to rise a wee thingie airlier an you wad prieve your pratticks on Trimmie.1959 People's Jrnl. 19 Sept. Confeerin' tae maist 'eers it's been a fell chaip protic, nae overtime an' less casual workers tae be pey't.1961 P. Buchan Mount Pleasant 18 Their proticks an' their capers fin they themselves were boys.2005 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 7 Feb. 12 It's nae winner fowk shak the pow at some o the protticks oor electit billies get up till fin ere's sae muckle serious maitters that shid be occupyin the myn.a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. 3308 (MED) Ful sore he gan to muse, And for to knowe and be put in certeyn, Thouhte he wolde sum maner practik vse. 1483 in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 19 [Edward IV] willed that my lord Dynham shuld assaie some practik therin and fele the mynde of the said lord Cordes. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 1083 in Poems (1981) 45 His deith be practik may be preuit eith. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xi. x. (heading) Heyr Turnus and Camylla gan devys Practikis of weir, the Troianis to supprys. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xi. 74 He vsit the samen practik contrar irland and valis. 1597 Glasgow Bonnetmakers App. 86 Quhairof the stuff wes nocht sufficient but of groff woll [etc.]..and wtheris practikis and ingynes vsit. ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 363 Medeas practicques scho had plane, That could mak auld men young agane. < as lemmas |
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