| 单词 | to keep a mediocrity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep (also observe) a mediocrity ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [noun] i-metOE hovec1175 metc1175 methec1175 measurec1225 measure?c1225 temperancea1340 methefulnessc1350 temperurec1380 mannera1382 mannernessa1382 sobernessc1384 attemperancec1386 measurablenessa1400 amesingc1400 meanheada1425 mediocrity?a1425 moderation?a1425 moderancea1460 temperancy1526 mean1531 modesty1531 temperature1536 measure-keeping1556 moderateness1571 moderature1574 sobriety1582 mediety1583 moderacy1601 temperateness1609 reserve1660 medium1693 soft pedal1899 met1932 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 0 (MED) In seruise of bisshopes of Rome, with which in heryng, reding, & worching y haue bene noreshed in keping mediocrite [L. mediocritatem]. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxvii. sig. Ni Some men wolde saye, that in mediocritie, whiche I haue so moche praised in shootynge; why shulde nat boulynge, claisshe, pynnes, and koytyng be as moche commended? 1564 Abp. M. Parker Let. 3 June in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 215 He noted much and delighted in our mediocrity, charging the Genevians and the Scottish of going too far in extremities. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Modus Statuere modum inimicitiarum, to kepe a mediocritie or measure in hatinge. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xvi. 95 That law of reason, which teacheth mediocritie in meates and drinkes. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 14/1 The Chirurgiane must, in sowinge, vse mediocritye, and not take to great a qvantitye of the fleshe. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 356 Body and minde must be both exercised, not one but both, and that in mediocrity. 1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices ii. 41 A mediocrity is to be kept in liberality. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 30 If the Popes had been contented to carry themselves with mediocrity, they had never run that hazard of losing all. 1765 W. Stevenson Orig. Poems II. 297 But kept we mediocrity in view, Men would be men, nor women lose their due. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 135 Reformation in matters of religion, seldom observes mediocrity. < as lemmas |
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