| 单词 | well, piously, etc given |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswell, piously, etc. given 2. Used predicatively: Inclined, disposed, addicted, prone. Const. to. Also †well, piously, etc. given. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > that does something habitually > given or addicted to something given1487 addict1530 addicted1546 apt?1550 prostitute1591 hooked (on)1925 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 735 Men, kyndly to Ill giffin. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 692 How Duncane was crovnit King of Scotland and was weill gevin. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxviii. 223 Those things that breede rhewmes, doe likewise breede the gowte in such as be giuen thereunto. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 118 What man is there well giuen and honestly minded, who [etc.]. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 285 The Chancellor, who was not given to those Excesses, would have excus'd himself. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 56. ⁋1 This ill Fortune makes most Men contemplative and given to Reading. 1747 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 93 I fear you are somewhat enthusiastically given. 1844 N. P. Willis Lady Jane ii. 9 Women given To the society of famous men. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xi. 11 Others who were devoutly given knew well the sins of England. 1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus 121 To tell you the honest truth, I'm not given that way myself. < as lemmas |
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