| 单词 | by little and by little |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby little and by little (c) by (a) little and (a) little, (archaic) by little and by little. 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 a1425 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Cambr. Add. 4325) C. xvii. f. 61v And lere hem by lytul and alytul [v.rr. littelum and littelum, litel and litel, litel and bi litel]..Tyl þei couþe speke and spele. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 358 (MED) Crist wole teche his disciplis bi litil and litil alle þes. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) v. i. f. lxxxviij Alwey it decrecyd by a litel and a litel. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 243 (MED) Hit sholde not be sodaynly chaungid, that wyche is custoumet, but slowly by lytill and by litill. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxijv And so by a litle and litle, the Englishmen recouered again many tounes. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 112/2 in Chron. I By what wyles and craft he might by little and little settle here, and obteine a kingdome in the Ile. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxiii. 30 By little and little I will driue them out from before thee, vntill thou be increased and inherit the land. View more context for this quotation 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 88 He fell off from me by degrees, by a little and a little vnwedging himselfe from mee. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 94 Custome of Profane Scoffing in Holy Matters; which doth, by little and little, deface the Reuerence of Religion. 1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici Pref. sig. a2v Their Descendants lost by little and little the Primitive and Purer Rites. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 321 Both fleets arrived by little and little. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 105 Add, by little and little, as much pearl-ash..as it will take up. 1829 W. Sweetser Diss. Intemperance 85 Where the taste and feelings are gratified daily by a little and a little, the associations which bind to the habit are maintained. 1872 C. H. Spurgeon Metrop. Tabernacle Pulpit XVII. 644 By little and by little he introduces them into the glory of his kingdom. 1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. vii. 243 All this we knew by little and little. 1934 J. R. Barrows U-bet xxvi. 179 Our round-up had ‘by little and little’ grown to respectable size. 1965 Rev. Metaphysics 19 135 Aristotle's Theory of Antiperistatic Motion: Bodies going through a fluid communicate their motion (momentum) to the ambient fluid by little and little. 1985 A. Lamott Joe Jones vii. 96 According to St. Paul it is by little and by little we are saved, or fall. 1993 J. Banville Ghosts 34 Collating, imbricating, advancing by a little and a little. < as lemmas |
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