| 单词 | to carve out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto carve out 12. to carve out: extracted from carvev. a. legal. To cut a smaller or subordinate estate out of a larger one. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal possession > possess in law [verb (transitive)] > divide some part of property from whole sever1532 to carve out1625 1625 C. Burges New Discouery Personal Tithes 21 To carue out his whole maintenance out of their estates. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 107 The fee-simple..is generally vested and resides in some person or other; though divers inferior estates may be carved out of it. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. v. 177 The estate of tenant in tail was, according to the metaphorical expression of the lawyers, ‘carved out of’, that is, less than an estate in fee simple and different from it. 1879 E. J. Castle Law of Rating 66 The interests carved out or subordinate to his occupation. 1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 29 255 A lease..carved out of a term created by a lease of the 27th of June, 1797. b. transferred. (Sometimes also in other senses, esp. senses 1 and 4.) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > fashion, shape, or form > form by cutting, pounding, tearing, rubbing, etc. hewc900 smitec1275 tailc1400 carve1490 tear1597 wear1597 to work out1600 draw1610 to carve outa1616 effringe1657 shear1670 pare1708 sned1789 whittle1848 to rip up1852 slice1872 chop1874 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > through or over obstacles > by cutting carve1490 to carve outa1616 hack1781 fray1849 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 20 Braue Macbeth..with his brandisht Steele..caru'd out his passage. View more context for this quotation 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur vii. 202 The valiant..carve out to themselves propitious Fate. 1717 R. Bentley Serm. before King George 6 Carving out his own Satisfaction in every Object of Desire. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 514 Roger now sought..to carve out a dominion for himself. 1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 77 Persistency will carve out a way to unexpected success. 1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. viii. 144 No matter what honour they have carved out for themselves with their swords. < as lemmas |
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