英语词汇“to catch a person in the fact”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†3. The act or process of making, doing, or performing something. In later use chiefly as a weakened use of sense A. 2, with reference to minor transgressions or improprieties, esp. in to catch a person in the fact (cf. to catch someone in the act at act n. Phrases 1). Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > doing > [noun]

workingOE

deedc1000

makinglOE

gestsa1340

doing1372

makea1400

workmanshipc1400

faction1447

action1483

performancec1487

performation1504

performent1527

fact1548

practice1553

agitation1573

practisy1573

function1578

affair1598

acture1609

perpetrationa1631

employing1707

the world > action or operation > doing > in action [phrase] > in the act

with the deedc1450

in the act (of)1555

to catch a person in the fact1712

in (occasionally the) hock1859

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clvij^v These three articles, he denied either for fact or thought.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. i. 174 Naughtie persons..Dealing with Witches and with Coniurers, Whom we haue apprehended in the Fact .

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §795 Those effects which are wrought..by things in fact, are produced likewise in some degree by the imagination.

1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse iii. iv. 49 in Wks. II A proiect, for the fact, and venting Of a new kinde of fucus.

1653 tr. S. Przypkowski Dissertatio de Pace xi. 55 Causes..not of our fact, and our avoiding.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 311. ¶1 I have my self caught a young Jackanapes..in the very Fact.

1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man i. 4 What will you have done with him that I caught stealing your plate in the pantry? In the fact; I caught him in the fact.

1807 Salmagundi 4 Feb. 23 She was detected..in the very fact of laughing..at the description.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. iii. 49 A dirty bare-footed chambermaid threw down her duster, detected in the heinous fact of arranging the sanctum sanctorum, and fled out of an opposite door from the face of her incensed master.

1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights II. vii. 133 Cathy had been caught in the fact of plundering, or, at least, hunting out the nests of the grouse.

1879 A. Reed Alice Bridge of Norwich xxxvi. 355 It would be better to catch them in the fact, and so be able to rid the City of them at once.

单词	to catch a person in the fact
释义	> as lemmas to catch a person in the fact †3. The act or process of making, doing, or performing something. In later use chiefly as a weakened use of sense A. 2, with reference to minor transgressions or improprieties, esp. in to catch a person in the fact (cf. to catch someone in the act at act n. Phrases 1). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] workingOE deedc1000 makinglOE gestsa1340 doing1372 makea1400 workmanshipc1400 faction1447 action1483 performancec1487 performation1504 performent1527 fact1548 practice1553 agitation1573 practisy1573 function1578 affair1598 acture1609 perpetrationa1631 employing1707 the world > action or operation > doing > in action [phrase] > in the act with the deedc1450 in the act (of)1555 to catch a person in the fact1712 in (occasionally the) hock1859 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clvij^v These three articles, he denied either for fact or thought. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. i. 174 Naughtie persons..Dealing with Witches and with Coniurers, Whom we haue apprehended in the Fact . View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §795 Those effects which are wrought..by things in fact, are produced likewise in some degree by the imagination. 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse iii. iv. 49 in Wks. II A proiect, for the fact, and venting Of a new kinde of fucus. 1653 tr. S. Przypkowski Dissertatio de Pace xi. 55 Causes..not of our fact, and our avoiding. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 311. ¶1 I have my self caught a young Jackanapes..in the very Fact. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man i. 4 What will you have done with him that I caught stealing your plate in the pantry? In the fact; I caught him in the fact. 1807 Salmagundi 4 Feb. 23 She was detected..in the very fact of laughing..at the description. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. iii. 49 A dirty bare-footed chambermaid threw down her duster, detected in the heinous fact of arranging the sanctum sanctorum, and fled out of an opposite door from the face of her incensed master. 1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights II. vii. 133 Cathy had been caught in the fact of plundering, or, at least, hunting out the nests of the grouse. 1879 A. Reed Alice Bridge of Norwich xxxvi. 355 It would be better to catch them in the fact, and so be able to rid the City of them at once. extracted from factn.int.adv. < as lemmas
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