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单词 well-wrought-out
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well-wrought-out
b. Of immaterial things, esp. literary or musical compositions. Also well-wrought-out.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > having practical, operative, or constructive skill > skilfully made or wrought > specifically of immaterial things
well-wrought?c1335
well-formed1493
?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 154 (MED) Þis uers is ful wel iwroȝt.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 198 This is well-wroght gere That euer may be.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. v. 345/2 They sinned by trusting in their sacrifices, as in well wrought woorkes to iustification.
1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 36 As a wel-wrought piece of tiffany or sophistry, but not as a sound Logicall or Theologicall Webbe.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 20 One of their Acts was written in a less compass then one of our well wrought Scenes.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 11. ⁋4 In Answer to your well-wrought Tale, I will give you..the History of Inkle and Yarico.
1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 158 To win no praise when well-wrought plans prevail, But to be rudely censur'd when they fail.
1849 A. Helps Friends in Council II. i. i. 13 A store of goodly thoughts in well-wrought words.
1876 Musical Times June 492/1 Concluding his performance with a well-wrought-out fugue on this subject.
1907 M. Kaufmann in tr. B. Pascal Thoughts Introd. p. viii The loose but mostly well-wrought-out thoughts..remained in ‘the beautiful disorder’ in which he left them.
1973 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. July 799/2 The lack of time needed to pass well-wrought legislation.
1997 Face June 149 Four albums of well-wrought psychedelic pop.
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