单词 | there needs |
释义 | > as lemmasthere needs (a) intransitive. With to-infinitive clause as further complement. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [verb (transitive)] > fall short of > fall short by (so much) lackc1460 want1560 there needsa1687 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 3091 I trowe ther nedeth litel sermonyng To make yow assente to this thyng. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. iv. 15 There needeth some Herald to shew the true petigree. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) ix. 111 There needs but one Million to pay the said Rents. ?1734 P. Shaw Chem. Lect. xii. sig. P6v There needs no particular Experiment to shew the business of the Fine-Stiller. 1776 J. Bentham Fragm. on Govt. iii. §8 105 A Duke's son gets a seat in the House of Commons. There needs no more to make him the very model of an Athenian cobbler. 1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 4/2 There needed no Roman nomenclator to tell me that this he..was Wordsworth. (b) intransitive. Without further complement. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > be necessary [verb (intransitive)] > it is necessary (it) needsOE tharfc1175 (it) misters1424 it needsa1425 there needs?a1425 ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 148 (MED) In þes two cases þe medicyne of Egrymoine sufficeþ not, but þer nedeþ cauterie oþer corrosiue medicyne. ?1440 A. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 26 I hope þer shal nede no gret trete be-twyxe hym. a1525 Bk. Chess l. 1120 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 117 Quhar a king Is present..Thar nedis no luftennand ner about. a1556 T. Cranmer Let. 28 July in Misc. Writings (1846) 393 I know your lordship's discretion is such that there need no such monition in this behalf. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 104 There needs no such apologie. View more context for this quotation 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xiii. 219 If such market or fair be on the same day with mine, it is prima facie a nusance to mine, and there needs no proof of it. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 35 There needeth not the hell that bigots frame. 1879 H. Spencer Data of Ethics viii. §50. 135 There needs great subordination to men who command. < as lemmas |
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