单词 | existimate |
释义 | existimatev. Now somewhat rare (chiefly literary or humorously pedantic). 1. transitive. To consider, think, regard; = esteem v. 5.The sense in quot. c1430 is unclear. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > consider to be, account as telleOE talec897 seeOE letc1000 holdc1200 reckon1340 aima1382 accounta1387 counta1387 judgec1390 takea1400 countc1400 receivec1400 existimatec1430 to look on ——?c1430 makec1440 reputea1449 suppose1474 treatc1485 determinea1513 recount?c1525 esteem1526 believe1533 estimate?1533 ascribe1535 consider1539 regard1547 count1553 to look upon ——1553 take1561 reck1567 eye?1593 censure1597 subscribe1600 perhibit1613 behold1642 resent1642 attributea1657 fancy1662 vogue1675 decount1762 to put down1788 to set down1798 rate1854 have1867 mean1878 c1430 Treat. Arms (BL Add. 34648) f. 3v For asmoch as I..haue late..perceyued in saule many Gentilmen in armes blasyng slomerously to slepe and dreme, them from their sompnolency..to wakyn..haue existimate myself, that me foloyng may haue the more waker conyngsaunce in that partie of Ciuylians conclusions, this litill tretis oute of latyn in to englissh..haue putte my vigilant penne. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Existimate, to suppose, to judge, to think or deem. 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials ii. in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ccc 2 Neither the Incolists that make these Pastils, nor the Institors that buy them, mix Goats blood therewith, as many grave men existimate. ?1720 J. Carter Serm. Texts Script. 79 To set a due value upon things, and existimate them according to their real worth and usefullness. 1785 Let. to Young Country Clergyman (single sheet) We existimate ourselves justified in this our application, by the authority of St. Paul. 1820 London Mag. June 633/2 Now we rather existimated, that he felt himself at home in C. Garden Theatre. 1909 F. W. Rolfe Don Renato 290 Wherefore, says the Supernity of my Lord, all natural things must be existimated as being lighted singularly from above. 2002 V. Beltrami et al. in A. M. Farinon Adv. in Abdominal Surgery xiii. 193 The morpho-hystological sequence is represented by : - aberrant crypts (ACF) -, now existimated as the first morphologic step for oncogenesis. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [verb (transitive)] haveeOE weenc1000 praisec1250 setc1374 set by1393 endaunt1399 prizec1400 reverencec1400 tender1439 repute1445 to have (also make, take) regard to or that1457 to take, make, set (no) count of (upon, by)c1475 pricec1480 to make (great, etc.) account (also count, esteem, estimation, reckoning, regard, store) of1483 force1509 to look upon ——c1515 to have (also hold) in estimationc1522 to make reckoning of1525 esteem1530 regard1533 to tell, make, hold, set (great, little, no) store of1540 value1549 to make dainty of (anything)1555 reckon1576 to be struck on1602 agrade1611 respect1613 beteem1627 appreciate1648 to put, set (an) esteem, a high, low esteem upon1665 to think small beer of1816 to think the world of1826 existimate1847 reckon1919 rate1973 1847 Comic Almanack 169 A Savoury and Redolent Scitamentum or Rarebit, which is much existimated by the Cymri or Welsh people. 1904 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 562 His literary value has been existimated by the criticism of twenty centuries; and it is quite unnecessary to-day to discuss the facile and mellifluous rotundity of his periods. 1909 F. W. Rolfe Don Renato 5 Put herself to follow at my dexter ankle, to the immense admiration of Messer Piero, who by chance now rightly may existimate me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1430 |
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