单词 | words to that effect |
释义 | > as lemmaswords to that effect b. Purport; drift, tenor, essential significance. Now only in phrases, as to the effect that, to that (also this) effect, words to that effect. ΚΠ c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 4325 His bakere and his butiller..they ne felte noon effect in dremes. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Hengwrt) (1978) l. 1398 And for his freendes on a day he sente To tellen hem theffect of his entente. a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 1903 (MED) My purpoos is breefly to expresse Theffecte only, as in sentement, Of the massage why that I am sent. a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 78 Theffect of whych was thus in dede. 1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 89v Whiche is the effecte of the Latin texte as neare as I can construe it. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlii. 1129 He delivered unto them a script to this effect as followeth. 1605 T. Bodley in Lett. to T. James (1926) 147 Sir, I haue sette downe in Englishe, the effect of a speeche, which I should desire might be vsed to the king... I haue onely sette downe the roughe draught. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 280 Cask. He spoke Greeke. Cassi. To what effect ? View more context for this quotation 1666 Earl of Arlington Let. 11 Jan. (1701) I. 53 He tells me he answered it all in his own hand; of which he hath told me the effect. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4812/4 Pretends to be a Physician, having a Diploma to that effect from the College of Doway. 1775 Massachusetts Spy 3 May 3/1 The commanding officer accosted the militia in words to this effect, ‘Disperse you damn'd rebels!’ 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 17 A subsequent proviso was added to that effect. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 335 Certain dark insinuations..to the effect that children in the lower ranks of life were beginning to choose chimney-sweeping as their particular walk. 1847 H. Staunton Chess-player's Handbk. 36 A Piece or Pawn touched must be played, unless at the moment of touching it the player say ‘J'adoube’, or words to that effect. 1935 Ann. Reg. 1934 ii. 305 References appearing in the London newspapers to the effect that ‘war debts are as dead as the Dodo’ were cabled to the American press. 1986 S. Penman Here be Dragons (1991) (U.K. ed.) i. xxxiv. 490 You said you'd sooner break bread with the Devil... Or words to that effect. 1998 Independent 17 Apr. i. 2/8 An elegant mechanism, to the effect that changes in the intensity of the solar wind..could affect the amount of cosmic rays entering the Earth's atmosphere. 2000 M. J. Nye in F. L. Holmes & T. H. Levere Instruments & Exper. Hist. Chem. xiv. 383 Hermann Staudinger..had just published a controversial paper to this effect. < as lemmas |
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