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单词 to dream out
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to dream out
to dream out
Now rare.
1. transitive. To plan, devise, think up; to imagine or envisage in or as in a dream. Cf. to dream up at Phrasal verbs.
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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.
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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.
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