| 单词 | to shape an answer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shape an answer b. Phrase, to shape an answer. In early use const. to or dative. (Now with mixture of sense 11.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > answer [phrase] to shape an answerc1420 c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 160 Wherefore thow Eolus, without more delay Shape vs an answer to thyne accusement. 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. i. 67 b/2 That shall I gladly here quod I, and shape you such answere as my pore wytte wyll serue me. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ix. 171 Achilles thus an answere shapes. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 132 It is a good Point of Cunning, for a Man, to shape the Answer he would haue, in his owne Words, and Propositions. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. iv. 151 Well perceaving which way the King enclin'd, every one thereafter shap'd his reply. 1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso vi. 28 To thy first question thus I shape mine answer. < as lemmas |
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