单词 | out and out |
释义 | out and outadv.adj.n. A. adv. Thoroughly, completely, entirely; downright. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > thoroughly > from beginning to end or through and through to the boneOE through and throughc1225 out and outc1300 from top to tail1303 out and inc1390 (from) head to heel (also heels)c1400 (from) head to foot (also feet)c1425 from top to (into, unto) toec1425 to the skin1526 to one's (also the) finger (also fingers') ends1530 from first to last1536 up and down1542 whole out1562 to the pith1587 to the back1594 from A to (also until) Z1612 from clew to earing1627 from top to bottom1666 back and edge1673 all hollow1762 (all) to pieces1788 from A to Za1821 to one's (also the) fingertips1825 to one's fingernails1851 from tip to toe1853 down to the ground1859 to the backbone1864 right the way1867 pur sang1893 from the ground up1895 in and out1895 from soda (card) to hock1902 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter > utterly all outc1300 out and outc1300 at all devicec1385 to devicec1385 right out?1543 up to the chin1546 up to the eyes1607 upsy Friese1609 up to the (or one's) eyebrowsa1627 all hollow1762 (immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822 all ends up1850 fair and square1870 right spang1884 to the wide1895 a (also one) hundred per cent1911 c1300 St. Thomas Apostle (Laud) 401 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 388 He schal is louerdes wrathþe habben out and out. ?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) 828 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 304 (MED) Tho hevede kyng Knout Al this lond out and out. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 739 For out and out he is þe worthieste. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 264 Oute and oute, vbi halely. c1500 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Arch. & Provinc. Words (1852) 593 She was wyckyd oute and oute. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxv. xxxii. 907 b There was such a masse of gold brought, as would buy all the Romanes out and out. 1679 J. Crowne Ambitious Statesman v. 85 He can throw out and out, and still play on. 1762 G. G. Beekman Let. 20 Apr. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 409 I have agread with James Jancey and Walter Franklin to Insure Two Hundred pounds for Captain Snell at sixty per Cent out and out. 1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 14 If I chose to sell it out and out, as the phrase is, I might certainly get £500 for it. 1880 E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family II. xv She is..the cleverest woman I know, out and out. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View x. 169 A Radical out and out, she learnt to speak with horror of Suburbia. 1994 Daily Mail 29 Sept. 12/1 I was punished for being out and out rude which taught me how nasty and horrible rudeness is. B. adj. Usually in the form out-and-out. Complete, thoroughgoing, unqualified. ΚΠ 1813 European Mag. & London Rev. Sept. 266 Huffey White was, in the slang language, what is termed a complete out-and-out man; no species of robbery came amiss to him. 1831 Edinb. Rev. 54 232 We are..not among the out-and-out admirers of the..political opinions of this school. 1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember II. ix. 163 He was an out-and-out avowed Republican. 1919 Outing Mar. 315/3 At the same time Andrew Jackson, an out-and-out Indian hater, became President of the United States. 1958 J. Barth End of Road xi. 209 Even the villain's role would have been all right, if you'd been an out-and-out villain. 1993 Tatler July 50/2 Faded grandeur and an out-of-the-way charm that some prefer to the out-and-out glitz of many Continental spas. An expansive or limitless open space. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [noun] > infinity or that which is infinite infinity1377 infinite1587 infinitive1595 incomprehensibility1610 immensitya1631 infinitude1667 infinitum1682 unmeasured1812 endlessness1820 unconditioned1829 illimitable1884 out and out1890 boundless1909 1890 J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. iv. 69 Nature as the object..is a boundless out and out of objects, a boundless out and out of externalities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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