单词 | yoking together |
释义 | > as lemmasyoking together c. The joining of two or more (often conflicting or contrasting) things in a close relationship. Also: an instance of this; a connection, association. Frequently in yoking together. Cf. yoke v.1 6. Π 1588 G. Withers View Marginal Notes Popish Test. 260 Your yoking of Gods law with those..additions called Deuteroses, sheweth your..base estimation of Gods word. 1657 H. Ainsworth Art Logick 78 The Conjugation, συζυγία, or yoking together of words, is a depending of words yoked together. 1835 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 457 Who can refrain from a smile, at the yoking together of such a pair of appellatives as Diogenes Teufelsdroeckh? 1884 W. James Let. 30 Sept. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 697 My yoking of Renan with Zola may sound lacking in delicacy to French ears. 1918 in T. E. Finegan Township Syst. (1921) 281 They believe that this law provides for a yoking of diverse interests. 1957 H. Levin Contexts of Crit. 226 That yoking of opposites which has come to be regarded as the essence of Metaphysical style. 2002 Time Out 2 Jan. 159/1 This arbitrary yoking together on the vaguest pretext means the programme feels broken-backed and disjointed. < as lemmas |
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