| 单词 | in good measure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin good measure a. Moderation, temperance, restraint; abstemiousness. of measure: moderate, temperate. in (also by, with) measure: in moderation. in good measure: moderately; adequately. Frequently in proverbs and proverbial phrases. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [noun] i-metOE hovec1175 metc1175 methec1175 measurec1225 measure?c1225 temperancea1340 methefulnessc1350 temperurec1380 mannera1382 mannernessa1382 sobernessc1384 attemperancec1386 measurablenessa1400 amesingc1400 meanheada1425 mediocrity?a1425 moderation?a1425 moderancea1460 temperancy1526 mean1531 modesty1531 temperature1536 measure-keeping1556 moderateness1571 moderature1574 sobriety1582 mediety1583 moderacy1601 temperateness1609 reserve1660 medium1693 soft pedal1899 met1932 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > moderate or with moderation [phrase] in (also by, with) measurec1225 of measurec1400 in moderation1483 in a mean1531 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > to some (small) extent in (also by, with) measurec1225 in mannerc1425 somewhat1542 in some sort1556 in some (also a) measure1600 by somewhat1653 something of a(n)1711 (a) sort of, o', a, sorter1790 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > to a considerable degree in good measurec1225 a quantityc1330 in mannerc1425 not meanly1533 in (a) great (also large, good, ample, etc.) measure1581 to some tune1692 c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 6 (MED) Þe þridde suster, þet is, meað..he makeð meistre ouer his willesfule hirð..þet ha leare ham mete, þet me meosure [v.r. mesure] hat. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 53 (MED) Þo þet libbeþ be þe ulesse..ne hyealdeþ scele ne mesure. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 3305 Slep..helpeth kinde..Whan it is take be mesure. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 247 (MED) Al in mesure and meþe watz mad þe vengaunce. a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 360 (MED) Curatis..shulden lyue on þe puple in good mesure. a1449 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 776 (MED) Men wryte of oold how mesour is tresour. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 773 Iche thynge is praysed if it in mesure be. a1500 Ratis Raving 431 Of met and drink in gud mesour. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) John iii. 34 God geueth not the sprete (vnto him) by measure. 1548 T. Cranmer Catechismus sig. Aavj Yf we wyll be contente with a meane dyet, and kepe a measure in our apparell. 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. v. 221 It hath euer beene held, that blushing in measure, modestie, and silence haue beene commendable tokens in young yeeres. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iv. 7 My legs can keepe no measure in delight, When my poore hart no measure keepes in griefe. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xxx. 11 I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 128 Knowledge..needs..Her Temperance over Appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain. View more context for this quotation a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. vii. 66 To obtain that Righteousness which they desire, (here, in good measure, and hereafter to the full). 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xvi. 272 The prophets having grace only in measure, so in measure they wrought their miracles. in (a) great (also large, good, ample, etc.) measure b. †after some large measure, in (a) great (also large, good, ample, etc.) measure, in no small measure: to a considerable extent or degree, largely. Cf. sense 7b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > to a considerable degree in good measurec1225 a quantityc1330 in mannerc1425 not meanly1533 in (a) great (also large, good, ample, etc.) measure1581 to some tune1692 1581 T. Norton Let. in W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire (1730) II. 1111/2 T. Cromwell..having..thus searcht into lives; which by a Black Book, containing a world of enormities, were represented in no small measure scandalous. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxxx. 5 Thou..giuest them teares to drinke in great measure . View more context for this quotation 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 493 The recouery (after some large measure) of my health. 1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence i. 49 Being loath to enlarge on so odious a difference, sopited in good measure. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. i. §20 Which difference of writing is in a great measure the cause of the different dialect between the Athenians and Ionians. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. iii. 170 Objections against Christianity itself, are, in a great measure, frivolous. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Alcaid The Spanish alcaid answers in good measure to the French prevost, and English justice of the peace. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 309 In whom lust And folly in as ample measure meet As in the bosoms of the slaves he rules. 1854 W. C. Roscoe in Prospective Rev. 10 398 [Shakespeare] leaves his meaning to rest in great measure on the atmosphere that hangs about his language. 1895 R. L. Douglas in Bookman Oct. 22/2 Louis [XIV] was in a large measure responsible for the horrors of the Revolution. 1935 L. J. Henderson Pareto's Gen. Sociol. v. 23 Theology and metaphysics and parts of law consist, in great measure, of systematic and extensive derivations from certain very important residues like those involving the words justice, duty, sanctity, and absolute. 1987 S. Johnson Commissioner ii. 38 Her husband's rise to one of the diplomatic service's most senior jobs had been due in no small measure to the splendid support that Lady P had offered over the years. < as lemmas |
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