单词 | misters |
释义 | > as lemmas(it) misters b. intransitive. impersonal or with non-referential it as subject. (it) misters: it is necessary or needful (in Middle English with dative of the person affected); (later also) it matters. Usually with infinitive or clause. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > be necessary [verb (intransitive)] > it is necessary (it) needsOE tharfc1175 (it) misters1424 it needsa1425 there needs?a1425 1424 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 7 Ande gif it misteris þat secular power be callyt þerto in suppowale and helping of halykirk. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4281 (MED) Vs mistris neuire na medcyne for malidy on erthe. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 22 (MED) Blase sought all that hym mystered to write with. c1500 Melusine (1895) 222 (MED) Yf it mystier, we shal guyde & lede you wel. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. sig. Ii7v As for my name, it mistreth not to tell. a1600 King & Barker 99 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 9 The hors prekyd, as he was wode, Het mestoret to spor hem not. ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 382 Ten pund Stirveling I have heir, And mair, when misteris, you command. 1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. 216 Little misters it to me Whar they gang, or whar they ride. < as lemmas |
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