单词 | to make against |
释义 | > as lemmasto make against —— to make against —— 1. intransitive. To be unfavourable to; to militate or tell against. Cf. sense 55b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > contrary evidence > contradict, go against [verb (transitive)] traverse1491 to make against ——a1540 contradict1593 to give the lie (to)1593 dementie1594 belie1624 militate1642 contravenea1670 disconfirm1827 contra-indicate1880 a1540 R. Barnes Lawfull for Priestes to marry Wiues in W. Tyndale et al. Wks. (1573) ii. 315/1 The texte maketh agaynst the Pope. 1649 J. Milton Observations in Articles of Peace with Irish Rebels 56 The third Reason which they use, makes against them. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xxviii. 65 Ocular Experience makes against this. 1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous iii. 139 That which makes equally against two contradictory Opinions, can be a Proof against neither. 1720 in Notes & Queries (1986) Mar. 18/1 A Man must not use weak Arguments, or such as may make against him, when he intends to persuade the Thing he says. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. iii. 439 He sought out whatever could make against the orthodoxy of the new prelate. 1890 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 165/2 Figures, if you carefully select those which make for you, and as carefully ignore those which make against you, can..be made to prove anything. 1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xv. 185 All that makes against our efficiency—the memory of our failures, the hints of our undying fears, the bodies of our dead friends. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > make hostile approach to runOE to seek on (also upon)c1230 pursuec1300 yerna1400 seek1487 visitc1515 coast1531 accost1597 to come at ——1601 to make against ——1628 to make at ——1637 tilt1796 rush1823 to come for ——1870 to move in1941 bum-rush1988 1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1629) i. 26 The Corcyræan's vnderstanding that they [sc. the Corinthians] made against them [ὡς ἤσθοντο αὐτοὺς προσπλέοντας]. < as lemmas |
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