单词 | to fix on or upon |
释义 | > as lemmasto fix on or upon b. to fix on or upon: to settle one's choice on or upon; to decide upon, choose, select. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > choose [verb (transitive)] choosec893 achooseeOE i-cheoseOE curea1225 choise1505 to make choice of1588 pitch1628 to fix on or upon1653 trysta1694 pick1824 to prick for1828 plump1848 to come down1886 plunk1935 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxxvi. 311 I was nominated unto him as the fittest he could fix upon. 1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Fable Vertumnus & Pomona in Misc. Poems 134 Fix on Vertumnus, and reject the rest. 1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 229 Our choice would probably fix on that which was most predominant. 1855 D. Costello Stories from Screen 74 The night which Laloubière fixed upon for the carrying out of his plot. < as lemmas |
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