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单词 to set at nothing
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to 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.
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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.
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