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1626 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VIII. O.T. xxi. 356 Those sparkes of piety which he descryed in this semi-proselite.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 293 Non-confitents, That thinke not of confessing their sinnes..Semi-confitents, that confesse them to halfs, without purpose of amendment.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 72 Such are the blots and spots of our semi~conversions.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §14 There is under..these mutilate and semi-bodies [sc. of beggars], a soule of the same alloy with our owne. View more context for this quotation

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. v. 189 One [testicle] sufficeth unto generation, as hath beene observed in semicastration . View more context for this quotation

1653 Wither (title) The dark Lantern, containing a dim discoverie, in riddles..parables and semi-riddles.

a1667 A. Cowley Poet. Revenge in Sylva 10 A semi-gentleman of th' Innes of Court.

1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 135 Tho seriousness be generally reckon'd only as a Semi-Virtue, and by some as no Virtue at all.

1688 D. Granville in Remains (1861) I. 229 I censure my censurers more for their semi-loyalty.

1713 A. Pope Corr. 31 Aug. (1956) I. 188 A letter of yours has infinitely more charms to me, than the newest mail to the most ardent semipolitician.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lvi. 151 In the transport of his zeal he wrung this semi-convert's hand.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 453 In short, till we recollect ourselves, we are semi-pagans.

1788 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 157 The loins of the semi-monster.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) v. 144 This Arab Phantom, which my Friend beheld, This Semi-Quixote.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 191 [She] was led out of the room in a sort of semi-convulsion.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 228 Mrs. Abberly moved in that class of semi-fashion, which..never exceeds a certain circle.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 79 That description of semi-curls, usually known as ‘haggerawators’.

1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning iv. iii A doleful and doubtful semi-smile of welcome.

1849 C. J. Lever Roland Cashel li The vast apartment is in semi-darkness.

1863 J. S. Mill Let. 7 Jan. (1910) I. 273 He has triumphed wonderfully over the difficulty of rendering the thoughts or semi-thoughts of Plato.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 61 A flash of semi-jealousy.

1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. vii. 104 But such a semi-concession..cannot save him.

1865 C. Knight Passages Working Life II. 10 In the semi-thoroughfare of Pall Mall East.

1865 W. Bagehot Eng. Constit. i. 19 A semi-connection has grown up between the legislature and the executive.

1866 Macmillan's Mag. 13 274 The semi~rebellion of the Gallicans against the despotism of the Pope.

1867 J. S. Mill Let. 19 Oct. (1910) II. 90 Parliamentary semi-work or idleness.

1871 Fair France v. 160 That perpetual state of semi-fuddle, peculiar to our beer-drinking agricultural labourer.

1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey vii Isabel had found among the passengers her semi-acquaintances of the hotel parlour.

1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. Pref. A motley cluster of philologists, semi-philologists, and entire philologasters.

1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary ii. i. 61 A semi-madman..So fancy-ridd'n.

1878 Mrs. H. Wood Pomeroy Abbey III. iii. ii. 203 Something in the very words, in what she undoubtedly knew to be their semi-truth, had startled her.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 424 Wasted affection, and rewardless semi-virtue.

1894 Daily News 4 Oct. 2/1 The condition of semi-panic which lasted for some hours.

1900 W. S. Churchill in Morning Post 20 July 5/7 It was not possible for the conquering army to allow the capital..to be in a state of semi-siege.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 12 Oct. 13/2 Something between a sac and a semi-fit.

1920 J. M. Keynes Econ. Consequences Peace 95 Germany is threatened with a deluge of luxuries and semi-luxuries from abroad.

1938 New Statesman 20 Aug. 288/2 They operated in a twilight of semi-illegality.

1958 T. M. Stanwell-Fletcher Clear Lands 89 That cold, beautiful semidark of the Arctic night.

1958 ‘F. Newton’ in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz v. 65 Variety songs, effect-catching numbers and calculated semi-pornography.

1961 tr. Zhou Enlai in Look 31 Jan. 104/2 A considerable period is needed before China can surpass the norm with regard to mechanization and semimechanization.

1962 E. Snow Other Side of River iv. 36 China's major ocean and river ports fell under foreign control and she became a semicolony not of one nation but of all the major industrial and naval powers.

1963 Times 7 Feb. 4/4 A Prime Minister with the support of the House of Commons may be in a stronger position than a President who has not got the support of Congress, but he is not the sole executive officer as a President is, or a dictator such as Khrushchev, or a semidictator such as de Gaulle.

1964 L. MacNeice Astrol. vii. 230 The semi-charlatan who may not subscribe to any code of ethics.