单词 | to set —— value on also upon |
释义 | > as lemmasto set —— value on also upon P5. to set —— value on also upon: to estimate as having a specified worth or importance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > estimate [phrase] > value at specific rate to set (so) little (or lite), (so) much (or mickle, a great deal), less, least, more, most byc1374 to set at (much, little) storec1386 to set (great, etc.) store byc1386 to set little, more, nought, not, of1390 to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395 accounta1450 to set greatly, littly, lightly, so, etc. by1530 to conceive well, ill, etc. (of)1535 count1602 to set —— value on also upon1625 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. iii. xxi. 641 They sell to the Tartars both Noble and Ignoble captiues..because the Chan being vitiated with the Merchants gifts hath set a great value on them. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xviii. 92 Considering what values men are naturally apt to set upon themselves. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §62 But the Backwardness Parents shew in divulging their Faults, will make them set a greater Value on their Credit themselves. a1763 W. King Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1819) 101 My Lord Hardwick..who is said to be worth 800,000 l. sets the same value on half a crown now as he did when he was only worth one hundred. 1782 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 7 You set too much value on the few and slight services, that I have been able to perform. 1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion ii. iii. 277 No one who sets any value on the lives of his horses or dogs, ever allows it to be disregarded. 1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 64 Wolsey set much value upon the study of Greek. 1890 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 365 I must see what value the kafir sets on his services. 1921 Conquest Sept. 480/1 His business is to set a value on the teas up for sale. 1961 E. W. Parks W. G. Simms as Literary Critic ii. 19 Possibly as a rationalization of his own defects, Simms tended to set a low value on artistry. 1998 A. Weir Elizabeth the Queen iv. 71 For someone who normally set a high value on the good opinion of her people, she appeared to care not a jot what they were thinking. < as lemmas |
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