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单词 after a person's will
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after a person's will
a. after a person's will (also after will): according to one's own or another person's choice or intention; according to one's own or another person's wish or desire. Cf. after prep. 9b, 10a, 11. Obsolete (archaic in later use).
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > [adverb]
to one's willOE
by one's willOE
self-willesOE
after a person's willOE
a-willc1275
at willc1300
at one's (own) liberty1426
ad placituma1556
at pleasure1579
ad libitum1606
arbitrarilya1626
arbitrariously1653
discretionally1655
ad arbitrium1663
voluntarily1676
discretionarily1681
antecedently1682
discretionary?1707
ad lib1791
at one's own sweet will1802
at choice1817
at no allowance1858
OE King Ælfred tr. Psalms (Paris) (2001) xix. 4 Gylde ðe Drihten æfter ðinum willan.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6525 All hiss werrc..Wass full off iwhillc hæþenndom All affterr deofless wille.
c1300 St. Brendan (Harl.) l. 109 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 223 Þe see drof here schip after wil.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15793 O þe forel a suerd he drogh þe ere he smat of an, For had it ben efter his wil he wald him fain ha slan.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 4 This is done after my will.
a1720 E. Bury Diary i, in Acct. Life & Death Mrs. E. Bury (1720) 55 I watch, and pray, and strive to walk after his Will.
1891 C. Yonge Two Penniless Princesses II. vii. 19 It is the Countess de Craylierre, who is forever..striving to put whatever I do in a cruel light, if I dinna walk after her will.
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