单词 | to dream out |
释义 | > as lemmasto dream out to dream out Now rare. extracted from dreamv.2 1. transitive. To plan, devise, think up; to imagine or envisage in or as in a dream. Cf. to dream up at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)] findeOE conceive1340 seek1340 brewc1386 divine1393 to find outc1405 to search outc1425 to find up?c1430 forgec1430 upfindc1440 commentc1450 to dream out1533 inventa1538 father1548 spina1575 coin1580 conceit1591 mint1593 spawn1594 cook1599 infantize1619 fabulize1633 notionate1645 to make upc1650 to spin outa1651 to cook up1655 to strike out1735 mother1788 to think up1855 to noodle out1950 gin1980 1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p. ix This electe chyrche of Tyndals descrypcyon..can not onely do no good, but is also dremed out by hym to do myche harme. 1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. C.v Hygh treason ageynst yowr holye father agapitus popett of Rome, whych fyrst dreamed it out, and enacted it for a lawdable ceremonye. a1652 R. Brome City Wit i. i. sig. B, in Five New Playes (1653) So, now will I meditate, take a nap, and dreame out a few fancies. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 67 The time which I should have bestowed on the academic studies, I employed in dreaming out wild Schemes of impossible extrication. 1847 Knickerbocker Jan. 14 Give me the unconquerable will.., the grasp of restless energy which never stops..to fall asleep in order to dream out the gorgeous future. 1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos v. 21 And all of this, runs Varchi, dreamed out beforehand In Perugia. 1935 Punch 4 Sept. 262/2 The man who has a clearly formed ambition, who has dreamed out an ideal which his whole personality [etc.]. 2. transitive. To waste by dreaming; to pass or spend (time, one's life, etc.) in dreaming or reverie. Cf. to dream away at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > make drowsy [verb (transitive)] > pass away (time) drowsily to dream out1579 drowse1598 to dream away1600 doze1693 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 921 Fortune layd it vpon him, and therefore bad him goe thorow withall, and not to dreame it out losing oportunitie [Fr. laisser perdre les occasions en trop dilayant]. 1645 T. Shepard Sound Beleever ii. 9 Consider this all you that dreame out your time in minding only things before your feet, never thinking on the evills of your owne hearts. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 98 Whether [swallows] dream the winter out in caves below. 1853 Working Man's Friend 1 Jan. 220/1 The flowers, Fresh with the heavy summer dew, Dream out the solitary hours. 1998 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 5 Dec. 13 I stopped at the old folks home..where some of the oldest surviving islanders dream out their days. < as lemmas |
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