单词 | factitate |
释义 | † factitatev. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. Apparently: to plan, plot. N.E.D. (1894) gave only quot. 16161, for which it suggested ‘? To work busily’. T. Austin, in the glossary to F. J. Furnivall's edition of Contin. Squire's Tale, cited in the quots., classed the verb as transitive, and glossed it ‘plan, contrive’. Together the two uses seem more to support the latter interpretation, but with an intransitive sense in both quots., ‘factitate’ in quot. 16162 paralleling ‘machinate’. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (intransitive)] purveyc1300 propose1340 castc1380 worka1393 purposea1400 devisec1400 becast1563 plot1607 factitate1616 project1631 to cast, lay a scheme1704 plan1776 to plan on1914 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Douce 170) (1888) iv. 35 This false Videria..Fell to selfe likinge, which sh' admird in that Shee sawe, how in her selfe to factitate, And proiectes to begett of greatest great. 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Douce 170) (1888) iv. 46 In closetes, studies, chambers, wheare men doe All policies of them, which factitate All stratagems of them who machinate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < v.1616 |
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