单词 | to find place |
释义 | > as lemmasto find place g. to find place: to find room or occasion to dwell or exist, to have being (in something). Cf. senses 3a, 12c. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [verb (intransitive)] > exist in or be situated in standOE to have placea1398 exist1585 rely1591 subsist1593 to find place1598 seat1604 rulec1654 1598 S. Brandon Tragicomoedi of Vertuous Octauia iv. sig. D8v Let gentle pittie in your mindes finde place. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 341 Neither may reason find place in the violent rapt of such passions. 1710 W. Congreve To Cynthia in Wks. III. 986 Can Discontent find Place within that Breast..? 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. viii. 144 Gender..can only find place in the names of living creatures. 1839 J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Church (1847) x. 105 Confidence in their own strength found no place in their counsels. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles vi. 185 And now the solemn awakening finds place. 1905 J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly Cervantes in Eng. 4 To find place in Cervantes's rich portrait-gallery. 1996 Outlook (New Delhi) 28 Aug. 66/1 Ahmed's direct cause-and-effect logic may not straightaway find place in history books. < as lemmas |
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