| 单词 | engagement book |
| 释义 | > as lemmasengagement book b. An ‘appointment’ made with another person for any purpose of business, festivity, etc. Also attributive, as engagement book. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > engagement tailyec1425 trystc1480 appointment1533 restipulation1595 pre-engagement1647 ingudgment1650 sponsion1677 engagement1806 commitment1837 date1885 booking1975 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 111 Starting for a long ride, on a dinner-engagement. 1831 B. Disraeli Young Duke I. ii. iii. 144 We damsels shall soon be obliged to carry a book to enrol our engagements..if this system of reversionary dancing be any longer encouraged. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. ii. 15 Anatole, his man..got a sight of her ladyship's engagement-book. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §24. 170 I..would have spent the night there were it not for my engagement with the Guide Chef. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 118 If you have no engagement, suppose that you sit down and tell me what passed. 1886 Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 328/1 On the following morning he [a racehorse] was found to be..incapable of fulfilling an engagement. 1959 T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman i. 19 But what a time for your engagement book! You know what the doctors said: complete relaxation. < as lemmas |
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