| 单词 | to set going | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto set (a-)going  c.  Const. gerund with a- prefixed: in this const. and next, often, to put (a thing) in motion or progress, to start; esp.  to set (a-)going. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > 			[verb (transitive)]		 > cause to do or cause to act makea1225 putc1300 gara1340 have1390 geta1400 to set (a-)going1530 set1577 occasion1587 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action)			[verb (transitive)]		 > cause to begin to act or operate to put (also set) to worka1398 to put on work?1440 streek?a1500 setc1500 to put (also set) in (also into) motion1598 spring1598 to set offa1625 to put (also set) in work1626 to set (a-)going1705 start1822 to start up1865 to set in motion1890 1530    J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 712/1  				Go set these glasses of rose water a sonnyng. 1583    A. Conham in  Babington's Commandm. Ded. to Godly Rdrs.  		(1637)	 a v j  				With lesse paines to keepe agoing that which he had moved, and set a going. 1600    J. Pory tr.  J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr.  ix. 334  				Whosoeuer listeth to drinke of it, must set it a cooling for the space of an hower. 1660    R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xvii. 129  				Which perhaps will set..You..a thinking. 1705    G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Nat. Relig.  i. v. 186  				The Impulse of an Almighty Hand to set them first a-going. 1726    tr.  J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes  iv. 310  				All the Water Works were set a going. 1794    G. Morris in  J. Sparks Life G. Morris 		(1832)	 II. 440  				Those who set the plan agoing. 1852    W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. xiv. 336  				Those cards set people sadly a quarrelling. 1855    A. Bain Senses & Intellect  i. iv. 292  				A morsel of food on the tongue sets a-going the movements of mastication. 1861    W. M. Thackeray Four Georges  ii. 89  				The abbey bells are set a-ringing. 1865    J. B. Mozley 8 Lect. Miracles vii. 159  				Influences, which were originally set agoing by that agency. < as lemmas | 
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