| 单词 | a-purpose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa-purpose P1. a-purpose (also a purpose, o'purpose): = on (also †upon) purpose at Phrases 6. See also of purpose (also †(out) of (a) (set) purpose) at Phrases 5. Cf. a prep.2 Now archaic and regional. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [adverb] willesOE with one's willc1175 willes and waldesc1225 adviselya1325 wittinglya1340 wilfullyc1374 witting1377 a-purposea1382 of purpose (also (out) of (a) (set) purpose)a1382 wilfulc1381 willingly1402 of intention1430 knowingly1435 advisedlyc1449 deliberately1471 purpensely1472 purposely1495 prepensedly1496 purpensedly1496 purposedlya1540 proposely?1550 studiously1567 on (also upon) purpose1569 on set purpose1569 of industry1575 affectedly1582 premeditatelya1595 deliberatively1598 consultively1599 intentionallya1673 affectionally1603 by (also out of, on, upon) design1603 intentionately1609 industriouslya1616 perpensedly1624 intendedlya1641 unspontaneously1640 industrously1643 consultedly1645 consideringly1647 designedly1652 premeditatedly1653 wittily1653 intendingly1678 premeditatinglya1679 self-consciously1685 propensely1694 thinkingly1705 accidentally on purpose1711 affectionatelya1716 prepensely?1725 systematically1744 advertently1745 systemically1761 reflectively1775 purposefullya1854 meaningly1867 aimfully1870 purposively1878 designingly1879 proposedly1887 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Ruth ii. 16 If wiþ ȝou sche wil repyn..of ȝoure, forsoþe, handfullys þroweþ o purpose [L. de industria] & suffre ȝee to abidyn stille, þat with oute schame sche gadere. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 1079 Fawnus..Was set oppon a purpose to make his sone leue All his shrewde tacchis. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxiii. f. 298v I went thether a purpose, to knwe the trouthe. 1530 A. Baynton in Palsgr. Introd. 11 He hath willyngly and a purpose..taken..the greattar paynes vpon him. 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iv. i. sig. K Shees gone a purpose now to cuckold me, With that lewd rascall. View more context for this quotation 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 24 Which had been brought a purpose from Mexico. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 220 I can talk so very well, says he, I came a purpose to talk so. 1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow I. x.130 We're all keeping awake, just a-purpose to be ready and handy. 1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant 253 If he had got into such an amazing condition as that a-purpose. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers iii. 50 ‘I shouldn't like it if you came home with your collar torn off.’ ‘I don't care, our mother; I never did it a-purpose.’ 1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor ii. xxxiii. 499 Mitchell is freighting his opium to every quarter of the Province, and girls like me are set a-purpose to pox the hapless Indians. 1987 O. S. Card Seventh Son (1988) xi. 158 It was a scary thing to see that the father might have killed his own best-loved child. It wouldn't've been a-purpose, mind you. < as lemmas |
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