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单词 left to one's own devices
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left to one's own devices
a. Will, pleasure, inclination, fancy, desire. In earlier use chiefly in at one's (own) device [ < Old French à mon, ton, etc. devis] ; later only in plural; now only in left to one's own devices, etc., where it is associated with sense 6 (originally devis).
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > [noun]
willeOE
hearteOE
i-willc888
self-willeOE
intent?c1225
device1303
couragec1320
talentc1325
greec1330
voluntyc1330
fantasyc1374
likinga1375
disposingc1380
pleasancea1382
affectionc1390
wish1390
disposition1393
affecta1398
likea1400
lista1400
pleasingc1400
emplesance1424
pleasurec1425
well-willingc1443
notiona1450
mindc1450
fancy1465
empleseur1473
hest?a1513
plighta1535
inclination1541
cue1567
month's mind1580
disposedness1583
leaning1587
humour1595
wouldings1613
beneplacit1643
wouldingness1645
vergency1649
bene-placiture1662
good liking1690
draught1758
tida1774
inkling1787
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 11786 Hyt ys sloghenes and feyntes To take penaunce at þy dyuys.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11576 Þat he ne suld rise, Al at his aun deuise.
c1450 Crt. of Love xii No sapphire of Inde, no ruby rich of price There lacked than..ne thing to my devise.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxcviii. 691 They..toke a place of grounde at their deuyse, abyding their enemyes.
1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Morninge Prayer sig. .ii We haue folowed to much the deuises [1607 devices] and desyres of oure owne heartes.
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 38 Loosing and knitting marriages, by devise at pleasure.
1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xviii. 12 We will walk after our own deuices . View more context for this quotation
1673 J. Milton Psalm LXXXI in Poems (new ed.) 148 Their own conceits they follow'd still Their own devises blind.
1870 Mrs. H. Wood G. Canterbury's Will xv What would you do, if left to your own devices?
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