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单词 to the life
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to the life
a. to the life: with lifelike representation of or resemblance to the original (said esp. of a drawing or painting); with fidelity to nature; with exact reproduction of every point or detail. †Formerly with of.to set oneself out to the life: to adorn oneself with the utmost pains (obsolete).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify the person [verb (reflexive)]
preenc1395
prunec1395
prank1546
to set oneself out to the life1604
adonize1611
briska1625
tight1775
to make up1778
tighten1786
smarten1796
pretty1868
tart1938
pansy1946
sharpen1952
primp1959
the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > closely (of resemblance) > with lifelike representation
livelyc1405
livinglyc1475
quickly1477
to the quick1531
livelily?1565
to the life1604
naively1640
1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. 247 Wherein..the very Site, Fabricke, Strength, Policie, Dignitie and Affections of the cittie were all laide downe to life.
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. D4 Let him be straight imprinted to the life: His picture shall be set on euery stall.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 19 To frame of their own heads as it were with wax a kinde of Mimick Bishop limm'd out to the life of a dead Priesthood.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. §12 The shadow or dark representation of that which was to be drawn afterwards to the greatest life.
1678 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (rev. ed.) xix. 268 To reflect upon a Lady..for having set her self out to the life in order to some evil design.
1702 in J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne (1882) I. 283 Effigies..Curiously done in Wax to the Life.
a1758 A. Ramsay Some of Contents Ever-green (1761) vii The girnand wyfe, Fleming and Scot haif painted to the lyfe.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. vii. 281 I can take off a cat to the life.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. x. 199 Where is the coquette that cannot scream to the life?
1887 H. Caine Deemster I. vii. 137 The young rogue, who spoke the home-spun to the life.
1941 ‘N. Blake’ Case of Abominable Snowman iv. 33 She resembled to the life the stately, arch, sorely put-upon hostess of Animal Crackers.
1988 S. Gray How's that for telling 'em, Fat Lady? ii. 60 There he was, Nathan to the life, sitting at a table with various foods spread in front of him.
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