| 单词 | by inches |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby inches b. followed by the noun of quantity in plural, as by hundreds, by inches, by files, by degrees; also by times, by turns (obsolete), = ‘time after time, turn after turn’. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4710 To gider þei flocked in þat lond Bi hundrides & bi þousond. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hab. i. B Their horsmen come by greate heapes from farre. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lviii. 519 The roote is..full of joyntes by spaces. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. vi. 58 They growe by degrees. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. iii. 43 We are..to come..by ones, by twoes, & by threes. View more context for this quotation 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. 42 One..Rends haire by handfuls. 1645 City Alarum 11 We do worse then stand still, in doing things by halves. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. iii. 191 To win our Ground by Inches. 1709 A. Pope Spring in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 726 Then sing by turns, by turns the Muses sing. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 81 The North by myriads pours her mighty sons. 1817 J. Gilchrist Intell. Patrimony 71 Raving, perchance, by times, concerning religion and morality. 1840 R. H. Barham Hand of Glory in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 43 Hand in hand The Murderers stand By one, by two, by three! 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xii. 146 By twenties, by hundreds, by thousands, the force gathered. by inches P2. by inches, inch by inch: by small degrees, by little and little, very gradually, bit by bit. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [phrase] > gradually or in stages footmealeOE (a, by) lite and litec1290 a little and a littlea1375 little and littlea1387 (by) some and some1398 by little and by littlea1425 little by little?a1425 littly?a1425 inchmeal1530 by small and small1558 by (a) little1577 gradatim1583 by lithe and lithe1592 by inchesa1616 inch by incha1616 to go slow1664 a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iv. 40 All swearing..They'l giue him death by Inches . View more context for this quotation 1653 J. Collinges Responsoria ad Erratica Piscatoris i. sig. B3 They were forced to..reforme by inches. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 66 No, don't kill him at once..starve him gradually inch by inch. 1719 F. Hare Church-authority Vindicated 27 To dispute the ground inch by inch. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 162 Wasting away, and dying, as they say, by inches. 1869 F. B. A. Wilberforce Sketches Lives Domin. Missionaries Japan 195 All these four martyrs expired by inches, after a series of torments. < as lemmas |
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