单词 | underworking |
释义 | underworkingn. Action of a secret or unapparent nature. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > something concealed, a secret > action ambage1570 underworking1613 1613–8 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1621) 26 Skornes, conspiracies and vnder-workings. 1679 E. Everard Disc. Protestant Princes 20 The Emissaries of Rome have been the Instruments of the underworkings which have raised this War. 1811 A. Grant Let. 12 Aug. in Mem. & Corr. (1844) I. 286 The underworkings of petty envy and malignity. 1833 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 45 Men who are now gaining..a considerable and increasing influence..over the underworkings of our government. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). underworkingadj. Working or acting in a secret or unapparent manner; also literal, working beneath. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective] privyc1230 thiefly1395 stalkinga1400 slyc1440 insidious1545 clanculary1563 hedge-creeping1579 thievish1587 sneaking1590 tiptoe1593 peaking1595 underworking1605 stealthya1616 subtlea1616 surreptitious?1615 clancular1621 stealthful?1624 insidiary1625 worming1631 subterranean1643 clancularious1656 hugger-mugger1692 slink1792 slinking1841 instealing1844 thief-like1847 furtive1859 1605 S. Daniel Trag. Philotas ii. iii. (Chorus) C vj There dost thou struggle..Against some underworking pride that must Supplanted be. 1679 C. Ness Protestant Antidote Popery 87 He gives them up to the strong delusions of this under-working beast. 1818 H. H. Milman Samor x. 283 Deep echoed out From th' underworking caverns. 1883 Cent. Mag. 26 373/2 As a strong character in underworking motive, Squire Gaylord seems to be his best. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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