英语词汇“at worst hand”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†a. at (the) worst hand.

(a) In a position of defeat. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defeat > [adverb]

at worst hand1490

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > at least > on the lowest estimate

at worst hand1490

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [adverb] > at highest price

at worst hand1490

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xiv. 352 He saw well that his folke was at the worste hande [Fr. du pire], soo made he to sowne the retrete.

(b) On the lowest estimate; at the worst valuation or interpretation; at least. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia i. in Compl. Wks. (1926) IV. 48 For, in deede, assoone as hee sawe y^e Beare coming towardes them,..hee ran headlonge into this Bussh, with full resolution, y^t at the worst hand hee woulde not see his owne deathe.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H4 I am not so farre out of my Arithmetick, but that by Multiplication I can make two of one, in an houres warning, or bee as good as a cypher to fill vp a place at the worst hand.

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 421 More ignorant barbarisme here, than in Paulus, who at worst hand hath related it in good and true Latine.

1699 tr. Terence Brothers iv. in Terence's Comedies Made Eng. 210 All that are a little down in the world are very suspicious; take every thing at the worst hand, and fancy themselves slighted, cause of their Misfortunes.

1744 W. Notcutt Dying Pastor's Legacy to his People 62 These take every thing at the worst hand.

(c) Most dearly or unprofitably (cf. hand n. 25b). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 191 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) They were driven at the worst hand to sell unto the mercilesse Merchants, their Cowes, Hackneyes [etc.].

1767 N. Forster Enq. Causes Present High Price of Provisions ii. 142 They cannot buy their wheat..of the farmer, but are obliged to buy their flour at the worst hand, meaning of the miller.

1802 Monthly Mag. May 342/2 They [sc. pigeons] will more than pay their way in these dear times of corn, and that purchased at worst hand, and the dung given away.

1839 Manch. Times 5 Oct. Everything is bought at the worst hand.

单词	at worst hand
释义	> as lemmas at (the) worst hand †a. at (the) worst hand. (a) In a position of defeat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > [adverb] at worst hand1490 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > at least > on the lowest estimate at worst hand1490 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [adverb] > at highest price at worst hand1490 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xiv. 352 He saw well that his folke was at the worste hande [Fr. du pire], soo made he to sowne the retrete. (b) On the lowest estimate; at the worst valuation or interpretation; at least. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia i. in Compl. Wks. (1926) IV. 48 For, in deede, assoone as hee sawe y^e Beare coming towardes them,..hee ran headlonge into this Bussh, with full resolution, y^t at the worst hand hee woulde not see his owne deathe. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H4 I am not so farre out of my Arithmetick, but that by Multiplication I can make two of one, in an houres warning, or bee as good as a cypher to fill vp a place at the worst hand. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 421 More ignorant barbarisme here, than in Paulus, who at worst hand hath related it in good and true Latine. 1699 tr. Terence Brothers iv. in Terence's Comedies Made Eng. 210 All that are a little down in the world are very suspicious; take every thing at the worst hand, and fancy themselves slighted, cause of their Misfortunes. 1744 W. Notcutt Dying Pastor's Legacy to his People 62 These take every thing at the worst hand. (c) Most dearly or unprofitably (cf. hand n. 25b). Obsolete. ΚΠ a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 191 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) They were driven at the worst hand to sell unto the mercilesse Merchants, their Cowes, Hackneyes [etc.]. 1767 N. Forster Enq. Causes Present High Price of Provisions ii. 142 They cannot buy their wheat..of the farmer, but are obliged to buy their flour at the worst hand, meaning of the miller. 1802 Monthly Mag. May 342/2 They [sc. pigeons] will more than pay their way in these dear times of corn, and that purchased at worst hand, and the dung given away. 1839 Manch. Times 5 Oct. Everything is bought at the worst hand. extracted from worstadj.n. < as lemmas
随便看	to take into mercy to take into one's arms to take into one's confidence to take into one's head to take into the account to take into use to take issue to take it to take it amiss to take it as it comes to take it as one finds it to take it badly to take it easy to take it from the top to take it from there to take it heel to take it in the arse to take it in the arse ass to take it in the arse bum to take it in the arse butt to take it in the arse etc to take it in the neck to take it in turns to take it into one's head to take it kind

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