| 单词 | from the first hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrom the first hand a. = sense A. 1a. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1655 R. Gardiner Englands Grievance Discovered xlvi. 98 Coals to be bought from the first hand, then there might be as many more Voyages in the year, as now they make. 1767 London Mag. Jan. 6/1 In order to have cyder from the first hand, and thereby get free from being obliged to pay any tax upon the cyder they purchase for their own private use. 1795 J. Adams View Universal Hist. III. xvi. 153 Indeed the national productions and merchandise, in short, whatever they could draw from the first hand..were to be stripped from the mother country free of all duties. 1824 Kaleidoscope 30 Mar. 323/1 The chief seldom receives from the first hand, laces, trinkets,..all those gew-gaws of luxury. b. = sense A. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > originality or non-imitation > [adverb] from the first hand1659 originally1662 at first hand (also at the first hand)1725 1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence ii. 51 Yet is it better to take a Truth from the tenth, than a Falshood from the first hand. 1691 W. Temple Mem. Christendom i. 79 I could not but tell this odd story, because it is so much out of the way, and from the first hand, and what may pass for a good one. 1736 Bayle's Dict. Hist. & Crit. (ed. 2) III. 392/1 He knew from the first hand, that this sonnet was seen two or three years before the death of Mrs de Guerchi. < as lemmas |
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