| 单词 | to feel after |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto feel after —— to feel after —— intransitive. To search or grope about for (literal and figurative). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search about for to search out?a1400 to look about1536 to feel after ——?1557 study1561 to feel for ——1569 to look out for1578 to lay out1624 to look round1630 to lay about1755 prospect1854 roust1870 to look around1927 ?1557 Deceyte Women sig. f.iiv My husbande is very soone awake, and..he neuer waketh, but he doth fele after me. 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xvii. 27 If haply they might feele after him, and finde him. View more context for this quotation 1768 J. Wesley Jrnl. 23 Apr. (1827) III. 308 Just awakening, and darkly feeling after God. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxi. 320 As if cautiously seeking to feel after some gold watch that the whale might have swallowed. 1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (ed. 2) viii. 300 The soul.., waving its tentacles piteously in the empty air, feeling after God if so be that it may find Him. 1918 M. P. Follett New State Introd. 3 Group organization will create the new world we are now blindly feeling after. < as lemmas |
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