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单词 allto
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all-to
P14. all-to: (modifying a verb, esp. a past participle) completely, utterly, quite. Cf. sense C. 4. Obsolete.Originally arising from the use of all to emphasize the verb prefix to- (see sense C. 4a), with the use extended to a range of verbs to which the meaning of the prefix would not be strictly applicable. Over time the prefix came to be analysed as being attached to all rather than to the verb and the resulting combination commonly used as an emphatic modifier of verbs formed with the prefix be- (cf. sense C. 4b), as all-to-bedeck, all-to-befool, all-to-bespangle.
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c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 2235 Thane þe Romayns releuyde, þat are ware rebuykkyde, And all torattys oure men with theire riste horsses.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xi. sig. P.ii She fell in hand with him..& al to rated him.
1538 H. Latimer Let. 25 June in Serm. & Remains (1845) (modernized text) II. 397 We be fallen into the dirt, and be all-to dirtied, even up to the ears.
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iv. f. 54v Poore knaue into some ryuer than, they cast him cruellie, And all to souse him in the streame.
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H2v Her cheekes all to be blubbered with her iealous teares.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Papilloteux, All-to-bespangled..set thicke with spangles.
1637 J. Milton Comus 14 Her wings..Were all to ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd.
1647 J. Cleveland Char. London-diurnall 3 I wonder my Lord..is not once more all-to-be-traytor'd.
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin i. 314 Him too the bounteous Dean All-to-be-Blesses.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 48 She all-to-be-fooled me. View more context for this quotation
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3. Hence all to-, all to, all-to, †alto, employed in middle and early modern English as an intensive to any verb: see all adv. 4, Phrases 14.
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