单词 | a cast of one's office |
释义 | > as lemmasa cast of one's office 9. figurative. ‘A stroke, a touch’ (Johnson), specimen, ‘taste’. esp. a cast of one's office. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign > slight sparklec1380 odourc1384 smell?a1505 savour?1531 casta1556 obumbrationa1631 smite1640 subindication1655 smattering1764 whiff1872 breath1873 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > part as representative of the whole > sample or specimen taste1390 muster1400 sample1428 scantillon1465 say1525 casta1556 assay1581 show1582 shave1604 trial1612 essay1614 pattern1648 trial-piece1663 dasha1672 swatch1697 spice1790 sampler1823 a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. ii. sig. B.jv Shall I go call your folkes, that ye may shewe a cast? 1575 Laneham in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth I. 418 Bringing with them a cast of their office, by courtly mean. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. F Shew vs a cast of your cunning. 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 276 Doe not shew a cast of thy office, for the promise or hope of a reward. 1673 Answer to Seasonable Disc. 4 This Dutchman has scribled and thrown amongst us (as a cast of his office) this bone of Division. 1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer (1678) iv. i. 53 If you hate Verses, I'll give you a cast of my Politics in Prose. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 360 To receive this as a Cast of his Rhetoric. 1749 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IX. 12 Now, Sir, give us a cast of your office. 1832 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. July 470 Whose only cast of surgery is blood-letting. < as lemmas |
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