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单词 to the show
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to the show
g. to the show.
(a) So as to be seen; on display. Later also to show. Chiefly in to set to (the) show and variants: to put on display, to exhibit. Obsolete.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > show to the sight [verb (transitive)]
to set beforea1000
openOE
showlOE
to put forth?c1225
kithe1297
to make (a) showing ofc1330
presenta1398
representa1398
to lay forthc1420
splayc1440
discovera1450
advisea1500
to set to (the) show?1510
to stall out1547
outlay1555
exhibit1573
strew1579
wray1587
displaya1616
ostentate1630
elevate1637
re-exhibita1648
expound1651
unveil1657
subject1720
flare1862
skin1873
patent1889
showcase1939
?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. d.iiiv These grete fortunes lift vp a man hie and settith him owt to the shew.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 715/1 This felowe hath set out his marchandyse to the shewe.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. F.ij These things (my Lord) my glasse now sets to shew.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Fii The trimming and tricking of their heds in laying out their hair to the shewe.
1609 R. Parsons Quiet Reckoning vi. 468 M. Mortons mincing his imputations before produced about Goodman, Knox, Buchanan, Syr Thomas Wiat, & the like, seuerally set forth to the shew.
1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 22 Dissembling Joy, he sets himself to show.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 255. ¶8 His Actions..lose their Lustre when they are drawn at large, and set to show by his own Hand.
1775 W. Hilton Poet. Wks. I. 246 See, on each hilloc's verdant brow, Nature's broidery set to show!
(b) In appearance only; ostensibly, superficially.
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1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) sig. Diiv This iustice is more beautiful in apperaunce, & more florishynge to the shewe, then either iuste or profitable.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Isa. vi. 13 She..shal be to the shew [L. in ostensionem] as a terebinth, and as an oke.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §499 There is a virtuous Bezoar and another without virtu which appear to the show alike.
1669 I. Bourne Gold Chain of Direct. 55 A husband must not be like unto a Crab, Orange, or Lemon; fair on the outside to the shew, and soure and bitter within.
1700 J. Brydall Non Compos Mentis i. iii. 34 If an Idiot, or Natural Fool, should make his Testament wisely, and reasonably to the shew.
(c) to the show of the world: (a) for the sake of appearances; (b) so as to be seen; on display; (c) according to public perception or opinion; in the eyes of the world. Cf. in the show of the world at Phrases 1d(c). Obsolete.Common in 16th and 17th centuries.
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1547 A. Cope Godly Meditacion sig. A.ii Hipocritical workes, onely to the showe of the worlde.
1562 tr. J. Jewel Apol. Church Eng. f. 23v We do not take vpon vs now at this time to bring to light & to the shewe of the worlde those doings.
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 163/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Albeit to the vtter shew of the world, he seemed at the first to dislike with them at their landing.
1612 W. Attersoll Comm. Epist. to Philemon 285 He yt hath done greater things to the iudgment of the eie, to the shew of the world and to the sight of men.
1616 B. Rich My Ladies Looking Glasse 21 Mine intent is not here to instruct women how to adorne themselues to the show of the world.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. x. xiv. 1942 Setting to the shew of the world the fruits of their Ualour and Trauailes.
1643 ‘F. Greville’ Five Yeares King James 11 To the shew of the world, his bond was indissolvable.
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