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单词 how so?
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how so?

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P1. how so?
a. Interrogative: How is it so? How is that?
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > making inquiries [phrase]
how so?a1375
what, how seemeth you?1485
what reck?a1513
what is the matter?c1520
what about ——1662
what's the row?1810
how come?1848
whassa1906
since when?1907
what'sa matter1935
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 980 ‘Þis man..þat neȝh is driue to þe deþ al for youre sake!’ ‘How so for my sake?’
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5207 How sua, es þar na noþer king?
c1450 Erle Tolous 847 A, devyll! he seyde, how soo?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. v. 65 How so sir, did she change her determination? View more context for this quotation
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) How so? Puis, et puis? comment cela?
b. Relative: In whatever way, howsoever.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > [adverb] > in whatever way
how so?c1275
howsomevera1300
howeverc1380
howa1400
howsoeverc1450
anyway1642
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12828 Þat we hine læteð ane. faren heu swa [c1300 Otho don wat-so] he wule.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 183 Vnfolden or folden my fuste & myn paume, Al is but an hande how so I torne it.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme li. 50 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 51 O lord how soe I stand or fall, Leaue not thy loued Sion to embrace.
c. However much; notwithstanding that, although. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > on condition that [conjunction] > although
thoughc888
thoughc1050
allc1225
when1297
how so?c1330
althougha1350
ifa1400
if alla1400
though all?a1400
andc1400
suppose1400
albeit?a1425
albec1450
wella1470
even though1697
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 16305 Ȝit wot non how hit wyl bynde [v.r. ende]; Hou so bitwyxt hem be strif or stresse.
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) iii. 113 How so be it that þe Ffrenche kynge reignith vppon is peple dominio regali, yet [etc.].
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) iv. 116 How so be it þat thai do so ayenst thar willes.
1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres ii. xc. sig. L Welcome come, how so vnfortunate.
1614 J. Norden Custom in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 310 [They] shall never fall, howso they seeme to slide.
P2. how and about: with reference to, (all) about. here's how! a formula used in drinking healths. how chance: see chance v. 5. how, when, and where: a game of guessing, in which the guesser asks the questions ‘How do you like it? When do you like it?’ etc., of each of the other players.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > in relation to [phrase] > in respect of or with regard to
in wise ofc1290
by (also for) reason ofa1350
as to (the) regard ofc1392
in regard of or toc1392
upon the side ofa1393
with regard toc1392
in respect of?a1425
in this (also that) behalf1458
upon the feat of1483
for (the) respect of1489
as pertains to1526
in order to1526
with respect1556
ad idem1574
on this behalf1581
in or with reference to1593
quoad hoc1601
in point of1605
with intuition to (of)1626
in the mention of1638
in terms of1704
how and about1753
as regards1797
as concerns1816
w.r.t.1956
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > guessing game > specific
what's my thought like?1748
twenty questions1786
charade1826
how, when, and where1843
proverbs1855
hy-spy1876
game1937
I spy (with my little eye)1946
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. ix. 46 Emily wrote you all how-and-about it.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xvi. 58 Be good, and write me every-thing how and about it.
1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol iii. 113 At the game of How, When, and Where, she was very great.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 99 Yes, a health to ourselves ere we scatter... Here's how!
1925 Springfield Union 20 Nov. They now say ‘Bungo!’ instead of ‘Here's how!’ over cocktails.
1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. i. 152 ‘Well,’ said Mr. Hull, holding up his glass,..‘here's how!’
1959 E. Burgess Divided we Fall xi. 132 Martin was clasping a tumbler half filled with whisky. ‘Here's how,’ said the fat man.
P3. how come? colloquial (originally U.S.) phr.: how did (or does) it come about (that)? Cf. come v. 32.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > making inquiries [phrase]
how so?a1375
what, how seemeth you?1485
what reck?a1513
what is the matter?c1520
what about ——1662
what's the row?1810
how come?1848
whassa1906
since when?1907
what'sa matter1935
1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms How-come? rapidly pronounced huc-cum, in Virginia. Doubtless an English phrase, brought over by the original settlers, and propagated even among the negro slaves. The meaning is, How did what you tell me happen? How came it?
1897 R. M. Stuart In Simpkinsville 230 She heard Miss Euphemia wonderin' the other day how come the right shoulder of her black silk dress to wear out.
1930 Sat. Evening Post 8 Mar. 12/1 These firms assert blandly to..journalists who ring them up, wishful to know how come, they have nothing against women.
1932 T. S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes 17 Hello Doris! Hello Dusty! How do you do! How come? how come? will you permit me ——.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling iv. 34 That's how come him to have appetite for a nip o' pore old Betsy.
1957 New Yorker 13 July 19/1 These days, the sensation of the stamp-collecting world is United Nations commemorative stamps. How come?
1958 G. Mitchell Spotted Hemlock xviii. 210 How come they didn't spot her?
1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder xviii. 122How come you make it murder?’ he asked.
1969 in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 213 How come you ain't got Wallace with you tonight?
1971 Black World Oct. 62/1 So that's how come I asked My Man Bovanne to dance.
1973 T. Allbeury Choice of Enemies iv. 16 ‘Well, we are getting a bit like the Krauts, you know.’ ‘How come?’
extracted from howadv.n.3
how so?
b. After adverbs and conjunctions, as how so?, not so, if so, etc.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5207 How sua, es þar na noþer king?
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke i. f. lxxiijv Not soo, but he shalbe called Ihon.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 155 This hath nothing lesse then that. Why so?
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 312 If Foxes bene so crafty, as so.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. Kv That Edmund laid a plot, To set his brother free, no more but so.
1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 13 Dor. I am glad he pitcht upon Loveit. Bell. How so?
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiv. 256 He will not die unless we abandon him, and if so, we are indeed answerable for his blood.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clare in Poems (new ed.) II. 197 ‘Nay now,..keep the secret all ye can.’ She said ‘Not so.’
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxxxv. 1 Half I hate, half love. How so? one haply requireth.
1896 G. N. Boothby Dr. Nikola i. 20 ‘I know China as well as any living Englishman.’ ‘Quite so.’
extracted from soadv.conj.
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