| 单词 | contract friendship |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto contract friendship b. Hence, to contract friendship, to contract acquaintance, etc., which passes into sense 4. to contract friendship 4. to contract friendship, to contract acquaintance, etc., was originally said of the two parties entering into such mutual relations (see sense 1); whence, of one party, ‘to form, enter into, or become engaged in’ such a relation. ΚΠ 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Gvj A further frendship by this meanes contracted. 1598 F. Bacon Sacred Medit. in Essaies (new ed.) f. 15v It is the Charitie of Publicanes contracted by mutuall profite, and good offices. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 120 Cleander..vsed Xenophon with all kindnesse, and contracted hospitalitie with him. 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 205 We ought to contract perfect love with honest men. 1773 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 195 The small acquaintance which I had the pleasure of having contracted with you. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. vii. 115 To feel that he was contracting his first college friendship. < as lemmas |
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