单词 | to set at nothing |
释义 | > as lemmasto set at nothing b. Hence in idiomatic phr. connoting disesteem or depreciation: to set at naught or nought (see nought pron. 5), to set at little, to set at the least, to set at nothing; to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee; to set at no price, store or value. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] forhowc900 overhowOE withhuheOE forhecchec1230 scorna1275 despise1297 spise13.. to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303 to hold, have scorn at, ofc1320 to think scorn ofc1320 to set short by1377 to tell short of1377 to set naught or nought (nothing, not anything) by1390 spitea1400 contemnc1425 nought1440 overlooka1450 mainprizec1450 lightly1451 vilipendc1470 indeign1483 misprize1483 dain?1518 to look down on (also upon)1539 floccipend1548 contempta1555 to take scorn ata1566 embase1577 sdeign1590 disesteem1594 vilify1599 to set lightly, coldly1604 disrepute1611 to hold cheapa1616 avile1616 floccify1623 meprize1633 to think (also believe, etc.) meanly of1642 publican1648 naucify1653 disesteem1659 invalue1673 to set light, at light1718 sneeze1806 sniff1837 derry1896 to hold no brief for1918 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (transitive)] > make less important or unimportant to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303 mincea1591 to make no matter of1604 triflea1616 to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)1632 pygmy1658 insignificate1676 minify1676 smooth1684 trivialize1846 nonentitize1903 minoritize1947 sideline1953 peripheralize1955 marginalize1970 marginate1970 deprioritize1973 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 3013 And he þat ys vnbuxum al Aȝens hys fadyr spiritual, And setteþ hym ryȝt at þe leste. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 7774 Þe mayster fend..sette at noȝt þat he hadde tolde. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B vi. 171 Lete liȝte of þe lawe..And sette Pieres at a pees. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B vii. 194 I sette ȝoure patentes..at one pies hele! a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxv. 34 Esau swere,..& ȝede forþ, setting att nouȝt þat he hadde ysolde þe riȝtez of his firste getyng. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 602 Al the worlde he sette at noo value. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 14459 Alle þat.. þe iewes sette atte noȝt. 1413 in 26 Pol. Poems 51 Þouȝ all here gold were hider brouȝt, I wolde set hit at lytel store. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxii. 144 All erthely thingez þai sette at noȝt. c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xi To sette all þinges at no price for þe. 1488 Rolls of Parl. VI. 413/2 Unreverently sette theym at litill or nought. a1500 R. Rolle Psalter ix. 33 Halymen sall be despisid than and sett att noght. 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces iii. sig. T.6 What shal I say of them that setteth all honest & iust thinges at nauȝt? 1568 Ballad against Evil Women in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 32 That settis at nocht god Nor manis blame. a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vi. xliv, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Hh6 Shee had..Long lov'd the Fanchin, who by nought did set her. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iv. 46 I do not set my life at a pinnes fee. 1637 J. Milton Comus 16 The huntresse Dian..Set at nought The frivolous bolt of Cupid. 1649 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Use of Passions 203 He then sets at nothing what he so much esteemed. a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 247 The protector..would have given him audience, had not others set him at nought. 1850 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (1853) 40 Had she not set at nought the wishes of such men as Jewel, Grindal, Horn, and Parker. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. viii. 238 Canonical custom is set at naught. 1895 S. Tyler Kincaid's Widow xii She was set at nocht and sair hadden down, puir creature. < as lemmas |
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