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单词 to gain one's end(s
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to gain one's end(s
a. An intended result of an action; an aim, purpose. (Cf. Latin finis.) to accomplish one's end(s, to answer one's end(s, to fulfil one's end(s, to gain one's end(s, †to make one's end(s, to serve one's end(s: see those verbs.
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object
willeOE
errand?c1225
purposec1300
endc1305
emprisec1330
intentc1340
use1340
conclusionc1374
studya1382
pointc1385
causec1386
gamea1393
term?c1400
businessc1405
finec1405
intentionc1410
object?a1425
obtent?a1475
drift1526
intend1526
respect1528
flight1530
finality?1541
stop1551
scope1559
butt?1571
bent1579
aiming point1587
pursuitc1592
aim1595
devotion1597
meaning1605
maina1610
attempt1610
design1615
purport1616
terminusa1617
intendment1635
pretence1649
ettle1790
big (also great) idea1846
objective1878
objective1882
the name of the game1910
the object of the exercise1958
thrust1968
c1305 Edmund Conf. in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 72 Hit schal ȝut likie wel bi þan ȝ e wite þan ende.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. D1 The Sadlers next end is to make a good saddle.
a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1634) 232 A right end never hath a crooked rule leading to it.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 184 They study..not to make their ends on any mans weaknesse.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 174 This answer'd my End.
1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. in Wks. (1871) III. 304 I have no end to serve but truth.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. iii. 260 She had fully gained her end.
1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds vii. 88 I am rather afraid of our people mistaking the means for the end.
1857 D. Jerrold St. Giles x. 102 [He] was delighted..that the ends of justice would be satisfied.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 323 They may fairly use a little violence in order to accomplish their end.
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