| 单词 | to form to oneself |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto form to oneself b. To frame in the mind, conceive (an idea, judgement, opinion, etc.). †Formerly also, to imagine; occasionally to form to oneself (= French se figurer), and with complement. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > conceive, form in the mind [verb (transitive)] readOE thinkOE bethinkc1175 makea1400 imaginec1400 conceive?a1425 suppose1586 conceit1591 ideate1610 braina1616 forma1616 engross1632 cogitate1856 conceptualize1873 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)] seeOE thinkOE bethinkc1175 devise1340 portraya1375 imagec1390 dreama1393 supposea1393 imaginea1398 conceive?a1425 fantasyc1430 purposea1513 to frame to oneselfa1529 'magine1530 imaginate1541 fancy1551 surmit?1577 surmise1586 conceit?1589 propose1594 ideate1610 project1612 figurea1616 forma1616 to call up1622 propound1634 edify1645 picture1668 create1679 fancify1748 depicture1775 vision1796 to conjure up1819 conjure1820 envisage1836 to dream up1837 visualize1863 envision1921 pre-visualize1969 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > judge, determine [verb (transitive)] > form a judgement makea1400 judgea1425 forma1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. iii. 45 Could thought, without this obiect Forme such another? View more context for this quotation 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xv. 357 The defeat of the secular Design, is commonly the routing those Opinions, which were formed for the promoting it. 1678 J. Dryden All for Love ii. 22 I form'd the danger greater than it was, And, now 'tis near, 'tis lessen'd. 1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent ii. i. 424 My sad Soul Has form'd a dismal melancholy Scene. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 533. ⁋2 Form to yourself what a persecution this must needs be to a virtuous and chaste mind. 1779 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 270 I do not form an estimate of the ideas of the churches of Italy and France from the pulpits of Edinburgh. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 413 The reader..may form to himself some notion of what [etc.]. 1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 277 We form no judgments till we have got language. < as lemmas |
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