| 单词 | a quantity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa quantity † Used adverbially. great quantity: by or to a large amount or extent; in abundance; to a great distance (also (a) good quantity). a quantity: to some extent, considerably. a little quantity: a little way. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > to a small extent or a little littlec1175 a litec1290 a little quantityc1330 little whata1387 wee1513 a whit1526 thought1581 a wee bita1661 a small (also little) matter1690 a trifle1859 a wheen1869 a taste1894 smitch1895 a lick1902 mite1939 a skosh1959 a tidge1959 a tad1969 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > to a great extent or by far great quantityc1330 far forthly1362 by farc1380 well awayc1390 by half?a1400 by mucha1450 far (and) away1546 by a great sort1579 to stand head and shoulders abovea1683 (by) a long way1741 by a jugful1831 by all odds1832 by a long, damn, etc., sight1834 out and away1834 (by) a long chalk1835 by chalks1835 by long chalks1835 by a street1886 a whole lot1886 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > to a considerable degree in good measurec1225 a quantityc1330 in mannerc1425 not meanly1533 in (a) great (also large, good, ample, etc.) measure1581 to some tune1692 c1330 in T. Wright Polit. Songs Eng. (1839) 334 He wole..ȝeve þe gode man drinke a god quantite [c1400 Peterhouse to drynke a gode quantite, a1450 Bodl. to drynke a gret quantite]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 8816 (MED) Vp þai lifted oft-sith þe tre, It was to scort gret quantite [a1400 Gött. a gret quantite]. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 372 (MED) Þere nas no crystene creature þat kynde witte hadde..That he ne halpe a quantite holynesse to wexe. a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 37 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 106 (MED) Do þerto hool peper and flour of canel a gode quantite. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 167 Þei leyn vpon the hors gold & siluer gret quantytee [?a1425 Egerton als mykill gold and siluer as he may bere]. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. 157 (MED) Ek lyfte her plaunte a litel quantite. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) in Centaurus (1968) 12 229 (MED) And if þe exalaciouns be Y-gadred þere greet quantite, So harde þei hem meve shal Þat þe erþe shal quake with-al. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 76 Endlang the vattir than ȝeid he On athir syde gret quantite. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xl Alway se that the top lye hyer thanne the rote a good quantytie, for els the sappe woll nat ronne into the toppe kyndely. < as lemmas |
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