单词 | by the medium of |
释义 | > as lemmasby (also through) the medium of a. An intermediate agency, instrument, or channel; a means; esp. a means or channel of communication or expression. Frequently in by (also through) the medium of. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > intermediate means middlec1230 medium1585 intermedium1660 intermede1791 intermediary1859 1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke sig. Bvii It is agreeable with our Anima (the Medium aforesayd). 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Pp3 But yet is not of necessitie, that Cogitations bee expressed by the Medium of Wordes. View more context for this quotation 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. v. §10. 309 Moses..wrought..by the medium of mens affections. 1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 179 I know the Medium to let you see A wonder. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. vi. 273 The Devil has managed several..secret Operations..by the Medium or Instrumentality of the Cloven-Foot. 1775 E. Burke Speech Resol. for Concil. Colonies 5 The proposition is Peace. Not Peace through the medium of War. 1795 Gentleman's Mag. 65 544/1 Some useful information..may..be hoped for through the medium of your curious Publication. 1820 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting II. iv. 7 They are the end, this the medium. 1856 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. (ed. 3) I. v. 186 The seal..except through the medium of his whiskers,..may be said..[to have] no sense of touch at all. 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 16 They [sc. Latin and Greek] were the media of the scholarship, the science, the theology of the Middle Age. 1880 Coach Builders' Art Jrnl. 1 63 Considering your Journal one of the best possible mediums for such a scheme. 1908 E. F. Benson Climber 41 People they have never seen, and indeed never heard of except through the medium of the daily press. 1938 E. A. Powell Free-lance xlvi. 416 Though the Prime Minister spoke no English, we carried on a half-hour's conversation through the medium of his son. 1987 M. Brett How to read Financial Pages xxi. 230 The British as well as foreigners could deal anonymously in British markets via the medium of a Swiss bank. < as lemmas |
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