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单词 much of an age
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much of an age
3. Pretty nearly, approximately. Chiefly in expressions denoting similarity, as much as, †much at one, much of an age, much of a size, much of a piece. See also much of a muchness at muchness n. 4. Cf. much about at about adv., prep.1, adj., and int. Phrases 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > closeness to accuracy > [adverb]
much1560
nearly1594
muchwhat1619
nigh about1632
closely1682
roughly1768
close1833
approximatively1835
proximately1839
in the rough1841
approximately1845
along1852
nearbouta1857
in a sort of (sorta) way1868
in the (right) ballpark1945
grosso modo1952
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > equality [phrase] > equal
of a rate1542
much at one1686
on a par1726
much of a muchness1728
much of a piece1741
up to ——1809
honours even1864
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cciij Moche aboute thys same tyme.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) Pref. to Rdr. I heare saie, you haue a sonne, moch of his age.
1683 J. Poyntz Present Prospect Tobago 9 The Mamme Apple grows to the Magnitude of a Pound Pear... Then there's the Mamme Supporter, much of the same Nature with the former.
1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. 100 The word Allon, which is much at one with Allons in French.
a1699 W. Temple Ess. Health & Long Life in Wks. (1720) I. 257 All of them left the World much as they found it.
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 136 Old Men are much at one.
1741 Countess of Pomfret in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) II. 256 The siege and the soldiers are much of a piece with the fire.
1763 L. Scrafton Refl. Govt. Indostan 59 He marched against his relation..who was much such a giddy abandoned youth as himself.
1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 10 Shoe hods mitch at you like.
1859 W. Collins in All Year Round 13 Dec. 24 I..lose myself in my memory now, much as I lost myself in my own feelings at the time.
1884 J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis xv He sprinkled water upon the ground, very much as a Catholic priest would asperse his congregation.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out ix. 124 [It] made his life strange at many points where his friends' lives were much of a piece.
1964 H. Hodges Artifacts i. 33 The clay may be applied in a fairly fluid form using for the purpose a container with a nozzle, much as a cake is iced by bakers.
1975 D. H. Strutt Fashion in S. Afr. 349 A Durban mother dressed her young African umfaan very much as she dressed her sons.
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