| 单词 | make force |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make force a. Physical strength or power exerted upon an object; esp. the use of physical strength to constrain the action of persons; violence or physical coercion. †to make force: to use violence to. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > behave violently or use force [verb (intransitive)] to do outragec1325 to make forcea1340 deray1340 outrayc1390 to make strengtha1393 tar and tig?a1500 bull1884 strong-arm1906 to kick ass1977 to get medieval1994 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > physical effort or force > exerted on an object forcea1340 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force strong handOE strengthOE strenghc1300 violencec1300 mightc1325 stuntisea1327 forcea1340 enforcing138. forcinga1382 forcenessc1400 violation?c1500 efforce1549 enforcement1577 Stafford law1589 vexation1605 club-law1612 aspertee1660 physical force1716 strong arm1836 savaging1858 muscle1879 strong-arming1906 society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > physical coercion forcea1340 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter Comm. Cant. 497 Lord .i. suffire force [L. vim patior]. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xix. 9 And foors thei maden [L. vim faciebant] to Loth moost hidowsly. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xii. 63 Force is nouther ryght ne reson. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias ii. 7 b Deeming..that those blacke men meant him no harme, nor would offer anye force. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 647 To work in close design, by fraud or guile What force effected not. View more context for this quotation 1687 R. Boyle Martyrdom Theodora (1703) i. 6 Such cruel methods being apt to make the world suspect that our best argument is force. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xiii. §2 Force can accomplish many things which would be beyond the reach of cunning. 1840 H. Rogers Introd. Burke's Wks. 82 Nothing will justify force while any other means remain untried. 1889 A. Lang Prince Prigio ii. 10 The prince, after having his ears boxed, said that ‘force was no argument’. to make (do, give, take, have, let, kythe, set) force ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (intransitive)] > attach importance to reckOE to make (do, give, take, have, let, kythe, set) force1303 chargea1425 to think (it) much1548 reckon1576 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 10286 Lytel fors of hym þou ȝyues. c1325 Metr. Hom. 43 Elles forze wald he nan mak Quether his clething war quit or blac. c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 542 ‘I do no fors therof’ quod he. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3651 Of here fon no fors þei ne leten. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 5392 Monkes hors to gest he had na fors In a hyrne of his Innes. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 768 Som yeue no fors for to be forsworn. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ii. iii. 79 I take no force though I haue bothe their hedes. 1483 Cron. Englande (1510) R j a Kynge Edwardes sone set by the Scottes no force. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxi Thou ought to be asshamyd To set so great fors for syluer or for golde. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. (1812) I. 770 Sir Hugh Caurell made no force at his wordes. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. (1812) I. 419 With the whiche the prince was sore displeased, and set lesse force in ye men of the churche, in whom before he hadde great trust. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 512 b I make no force whether any medicine be applied. 1664 Floddan Field iii. 26 And of their lives took little force. < as lemmas |
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