单词 | by-work |
释义 | by-workn. 1. Work done by the way, in intervals of leisure, as opposed to one's main business; = Greek πάρεργον; also depreciatively, work done with ulterior or interested motives. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > auxiliary or minor work by-work1587 parergon1607 divertment1613 by-employmenta1617 diversion1637 by-service1639 avocation1642 by-business1653 by-job1773 evocation1810 sideline1886 the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > work done with ulterior motives by-work1587 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvi. 300 Which of vs doth it [sc. good] not as a bywoorke for some other things sake. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 159 To make a by-worke a worke, is to make our worke a by-worke. 1647 H. More Infin. Worlds lvi The appearance of the nightly starres Is but the by-work of each neighbour sun. 1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence viii. 385 To make Religion the great business and concern of their Lives, and not as most do a By-work. 1873 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible ii. 82 Which are but the bye-work of her beneficence. 1885 G. Allen Charles Darwin 128 The by-work with which he filled up one of the intervals between his greater and more comprehensive treatises. 2. An accessory and subsidiary work. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > product of work > [noun] > subsidiary by-work1587 by-doing1842 by-production1870 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > supplement suppeditation1578 supply1584 by-work1587 supplemental1643 sooterkin1668 Suppl.1702 parergon1724 supp1755 supplement1887 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xi. 176 Nailes, Pinnes, Riuets, Buttons and such, I haue thought them to be but byworks. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 550 He deuised another by-worke to expresse the same. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > clumsy or bungled work bodge1589 bodgery1592 Paul's work1602 botchery1608 by-work1615 botch1648 hob-job1857 spoil1892 botch-up1915 hack job1918 bodge job1924 bodge-up1959 bodge-up job1994 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 271 Wherefore Aristotle thinketh..that the female is a bye worke or preuarication, yea the first monster in Nature. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1587 |
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