| 单词 | to draw after |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto draw after —— † to draw after —— Obsolete. extracted from drawv. 1. intransitive. To seek out, follow, or desire (a person or thing); to follow the advice of (a person). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > carrying out > observance or carrying out a promise, law, etc. > observe or carry out a promise, law, etc. [verb (transitive)] > advice, method, or principle followOE to draw after ——c1175 pursuec1390 observec1475 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) 16846 Þurrh þatt tatt teȝȝ droȝhenn aȝȝ Affterr erþliȝ biȝæte. c1300 St. Swithun (Harl.) l. 32 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 44 Swithin his consailler, after wham he drouȝ. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 4978 (MED) Þe wif of Ector, hir douȝter in lawe, After hir lore mochel dide drawe. 2. intransitive. To resemble (a person); to take after. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > be similar [verb (intransitive)] > resemble or take after to braid ofc1275 anliken1340 liken1340 semblec1400 showc1425 to draw after ——a1500 to be cast in a (particular) mould1745 assimilate1768 a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxiii. 434 She..draweth litill after hir moder. a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 6243 He drawith after that laydy Fro whom he is discended uerily. < as lemmas |
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