| 单词 | in the extreme |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (the) extreme 1. quasi-n. The adj. used absol.; only in phrases, in (the) extreme: in an extreme degree, extremely. †to be in extreme: to be at the extreme stage of some state or condition. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely like mada1375 with a mischief1538 (as) — as anything1542 with a vengeance1568 with a siserary1607 (to be pleased) to a feathera1616 in (the) extremea1616 with the vengeance1693 to a degree1740 like hell1776 like the devil1791 like winky1830 like billy-o1885 (like) seven shades of ——1919 like a bandit1943 on wheels1943 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 355 Of one..Perplext in the extreame . View more context for this quotation a1711 T. Ken Sion iii, in Wks. (1721) IV. 390 Fond Love..Is ever in Extreme. 1780 W. Cowper Let. 8 May (1979) I. 339 I am Delighted..in the Extreme. 1790 Norman & Bertha I. 67 Elevated, but not in extreme, by their bacchanalian offering [etc.]. 1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Sept. 660 The labourers houses..beggarly in the extreme. 1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece V. ii. xlv. 427 This dismissal, ungracious in the extreme..excited..exasperation. in the extreme a. The utmost imaginable or tolerable degree of anything; a very high degree. Also in phrases in the extreme, to an extreme, to the extreme; in extremes (cf. A. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > highest, utmost, or extreme degree heightOE perfectiona1398 utterestc1410 uttermosta1425 tiptoec1440 pinnaclec1450 utmost1472 outmostc1535 extremity1543 abyss1548 top1552 furthest, utmost stretch1558 summa summarum1567 superlative1573 strain1576 extreme1595 fine1596 last1602 yondmost1608 super-superlative1623 pitch1624 utmostness1674 pink1720 supreme1817 ultima Thule1828 peak1902 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 iii. ii. 115 And so much more are the wonders in extreames. a1631 J. Smith True Trav. ii. 47 Here the Proverbe is true that no extreame long continueth. 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 23 Avoid Extreams; and shun the Fault of such, Who still are pleas'd too little, or too much. 1715 T. Parnell Ess. Homer 8 in A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I Nor do they [sc. men] equally..bear that human Nature..Should be prais'd in an Extream without opposition. 1777 E. Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol 57 The extreme of liberty..obtains no where. 1791 J. Lackington Mem. (1792) 228 She was enthusiastical to an extreme. 1846 Pope's Jrnl. Trade 109 A climate subject to great extremes. 1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 117 Twisted..to such an extreme as to resemble the threads of a very fine screw. 1858 R. W. Emerson Persian Poetry in Wks. (1906) III. 237 Life in the East is fierce, short, hazardous, and in extremes. 1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius ii He was..dressed in the extreme of the English fashion. < as lemmas |
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