| 单词 | to all intents |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto all intents P2. to (for) all intents and purposes (less usually to all intents): in regard to any end or object, for all practical purposes, ‘practically’. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > in general [phrase] > in regard to any end or object to (for) all intents and purposes1546 1546 Act 37 Hen. VIII c. 9 §1 To all intents, constructions, and purposes. 1555 N. Ridley Wks. (Parker Soc.) 19 I would know, whether that Christ's words, spoken upon the cup, were not as mighty in work, and as effectual in signification, to all intents, constructions, and purposes (as our Parliament men do speak), as they were, spoken upon the bread? 1629 Earl of Strafford Let. 9 June in J. Slingsby Diary (1836) 321 Your self [being] as formerly vice president to all intentts. 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 96. ⁋2 Whoever resides in the World without having any Business in it..is to me a Dead Man to all Intents and Purposes. 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 163 The materials are so hardened and knit together that to all intents and purposes they form one solid mass. 1879 M. Arnold Porro unum est Necess. in Mixed Ess. 162 The rest of the nation consists, for all intents and purposes, of one immense class. < as lemmas |
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