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单词 a cast of one's office
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a cast of one's office
9. figurative. ‘A stroke, a touch’ (Johnson), specimen, ‘taste’. esp. a cast of one's office.
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society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign > slight
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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
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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.
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