单词 | to put for it |
释义 | > as lemmasto put for it b. intransitive. To make a push; to exert oneself; to strive for a specified goal. Also in to put for it: to make an effort. Cf. push v. 10a. Obsolete.In quot. 1624 figurative: to argue, constitute a case for. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > attempt [verb (transitive)] > attempt to obtain or attain to found toOE keepc1000 seekc1000 throwa1393 minta1400 intentc1450 to try for1534 sue1548 attempt?c1550 reachc1571 assay1595 put1596 to lay in for1599 climba1616 captate1628 court1639 obseek1646 solicit1717 to make a bid for1885 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] tillc897 stightlea1375 stretcha1375 wrestlea1382 to put it forthc1390 to put one's hand(s) to (also unto)a1398 paina1400 takea1400 to do one's busy pain (also care, cure, diligence)?a1430 to make great force?c1450 makec1485 to stir one's stumpsa1500 to bestir one's stumps1549 to make work1574 put1596 bestira1616 operate1650 to lay out1659 to be at pains1709 exerta1749 tew1787 maul1821 to take (the) trouble1830 to pull outc1835 bother1840 trouble1880 to buck up1890 hump1897 to go somea1911 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)] > be proof of provea1200 showa1325 declarec1400 verifyc1430 givec1449 persuadea1525 arguea1538 demonstrate1572 argue1585 put1596 evidence1611 evident1643 to make out1795 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. 53 Let them..looke after it, or the Man in the Moone put for it. ?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads xii. 209 There was a guard Maintaind vpon it [sc. the gate]..who still put for it hard. 1619 M. Drayton Legend Robert Dvke of Normandy in Poems (new ed.) 327 Henry againe doth hotly put for all. 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? vi. 52 It would put for Hebrew, or Syriacke, their mother tongue. 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse i. i. 24 in Wks. II Stay i' your place..and put not Beyond the spheare of your actiuity. 1676 C. Hatton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 122 Some of my Ld Treasurer's creatures..put for Sr. John Ernley['s] place, as commissioner of ye Navy. 1739 Encour. Sea-f. People 39 The Superbe putting for it to lay the Admiral aboard, fell on his Weather Quarter. < as lemmas |
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