单词 | that which |
释义 | > as lemmasthat which a. Referring to a thing, in general sense. that that, that which: the thing which; what. Similarly that whereby, wherein, wherewith, whence, etc. (now rare).Formerly sometimes following a relative clause introduced by what, that being in this construction pleonastic and emphatic.In Old English as nominative and accusative singular neuter, frequently in þæt þe (see quot. OE2); cf. the pron.2 2. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesin (Corpus Cambr. 162) xlviii, in Anglia (1884) 7 34 Ne bið God næfre bepeht, ne him næfre ne ofþincð þæt, þæt he ær to ræde geþohte. OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) iii. 6 Þæt þe of gaste is acenned, þæt is gast. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14024 Doþ þatt tatt he shall biddenn ȝuw. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 9 Ure lif we ledeð richtliche togenes ure louerd ihesu crist, gif we forbereð al þat þat him is unqueme. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 5801 Þe oþer vel adoun akne..& cryede him mercy..of þat þat he mis sede. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 377 Ech of hem himself amendeth Of worldes good, bot non entendeth To that which comun profit were. 1399 Rolls of Parl.: Henry IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1399 Pleas §9. m. 2 Havyng consideracioun to that that was prayed by the comon, that that that was evelle..shuld be..amended in this parlement. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 536 (MED) Wyrkez and dotz þat at ȝe moun. c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 605 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 273 For-þi be sikker in þat,..þat scho þe taucht. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 48 Þat þat semys to ȝow yn þys matere. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxi. f. 177v Beste hylly grounde is nat that: the whiche is hye vpright, and skragged: but that, the whiche is ful of wodde, herbes, and grasse. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xi. 23 That which I gave vnto you I receaved off the lorde. 1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. f. lxxi Though the chyld reiecte and vomyte vp agayne that the whiche it receaueth. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 33 That wherein I haue giuen you aduertisement..had issue from a heartie good will. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 180 That wherewith the writings of all antiquitie are consonant. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 208 Ha..that thou hadst seene that that this Knight and I haue seene. View more context for this quotation 1650 R. Gentilis tr. V. Malvezzi Considerations Lives Alcibiades & Corialanus 233 Coriolanus, who could not attain to that as he wanted, should have forsaken that which he had received. 1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. ii. 49 What the mouth is, to an Animal; that the Root is to a Plant. 1710 J. Ollyffe Pract. Expos. Church-catech. I. 369 That which addeth very much to the criminalness of this Practice is, that there is no kind of advantage that accrueth to them thereby. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 13 What Consecration is to a Bishop, that Benediction is to an Abbot. 1779 C. Lofft tr. Elements Universal Law I. iii. xiii. 57 By reprisals..is meant, where, in consequence of things which a state has unjustly taken or destroyed, others are taken from the state which commenced the injury, by that which suffered it. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. ii. 226 Language has its rules as well as that whereto it applies. 1875 F. Hall in Lippincott's Monthly Mag. 15 341/1 There was that about the place which filled me with a sense of utter dreariness. 1953 E. A. Peers tr. St John of Cross Dark Night of Soul (2003) i. viii. 19 When they are commanded to do that wherein they take no pleasure. 2013 New Yorker 21 Oct. 70/2 There's a saying: That which ceases to be named ceases to exist. < as lemmas |
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