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单词 at first sight
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at (†the, as to the) first sight
a. at (the, as to the) first sight.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > sight of something > [adverb] > at (first) sight
at (the, as to the) first sightc1390
at prime facea1413
by the first visage1422
at a lookc1450
on (also upon) (the) view of1489
prima faciec1500
at one sight1508
at the first show of1549
at first gaze1577
prima fronte1622
on (also in) the face of ita1656
on the view1823
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c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 537 An vnknowen to take anonriht Is nouȝt to Aferme at þe furste siht.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8029 He kneu þam at þe first sight.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) v. 40 At the firste sight..Men knele to him.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 150 As to the first sicht, jt semys yat [etc.].
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xliijv Hys seriante porter, whiche knewe hym at the fyrste sighte.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 11 Euphues at the firste sight was so kyndled with desyre, that [etc.].
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi i. ii. 9/2 They saw no Indians..but such as at the first Sight always ran away.
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum at Axiom A Proposition whose Truth every Person perceives at the first Sight.
(b)a1593 C. Marlowe Hero & Leander (1598) i. 176 Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. H4 Alex... You can play any lesson [i.e. in music]. Mol. At first sight sir.1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 137 In which definition, there is nothing that is not at first sight evident.1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 166. ⁋3 You may see them at first Sight grow acquainted by Sympathy.1773 Life N. Frowde 29 I'm glad to see him, however, he has pleased me at first Sight.1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) i. vi. §1 Propositions which at first sight present themselves as verbal.1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 426 There is more of system in the Phaedo than appears at first sight.
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