单词 | to give the looking on |
释义 | > as lemmasto give (a person) the looking on looking on n. observation or contemplation, esp. when uninvolved or detached; an act or instance of this; in early use in †to give (a person) the looking on: to observe (a person) without becoming involved in what he or she is doing (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > looking at or beholding beholdinga1225 considerationc1386 advisementa1393 aspecta1398 especcion14.. viewc1450 contemplationc1500 looking ona1516 viewing1548 eyeing1550 perspectionc1550 theoria1590 conspection1611 onlooking1637 spectation1638 aspection1646 prospecting1677 onlook1800 spectating1942 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > abstain from interfering with > and observe a person looking ona1516 a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens ii. sig. e.viv Syr I shall gyue you the lokynge on. 1532 L. Cox Art or Crafte Rhetoryke sig. F.vii A thyng that is very rude and skant worthe the lokynge on. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxiiijv His aduise and counsell, whiche vnlesse they woulde folowe, he would gyue them the lokyng on. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 45 Any man thought worthy the looking on. a1736 R. Kane Campaigns King William & Queen Anne (1745) 68 In the Siege of which [sc. the fortress of Menin] our Regiment was employ'd, when we paid for our looking on at Ramillies. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 113 That loss but made us love the more, With farther lookings on. 1948 P. Grainger Let. 31 Oct. in All-round Man (1994) 222 Your Pastoral Symphony, which did not seem to me (as so many nature-poems do) a mere looking-on..at nature. 2012 S. M. Campbell Early Heidegger's Philos. of Life 1 When philosophy is construed as theoretical detachment from experience—a looking on at how people live and speak from some exterior point—then it is no longer connected to life. < as lemmas |
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