单词 | to practise on |
释义 | > as lemmasto practise on (also upon) — 11. intransitive to practise on (also upon) —. extracted from practisepracticev. a. To play a trick on; to manipulate, esp. through trickery or deceit. Now literary. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > practise trickery [verb (intransitive)] triflec1305 legerdemain1483 to practise on (also upon) —1600 to play hocus-pocus1659 palm1686 trick1698 shab1755 kid1811 lark1813 prank1826 mank1861 cod1874 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 358 I..wil so practise on Benedicke, that..he shall fall in loue with Beatrice. View more context for this quotation 1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case iv. sig. I I feare, Y'are practiz'd vpon most deuillishly. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. vi As she doth practise on all vs, to scorne. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 504 The Court practised on her..so far, that she delivered up her husband's letters. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxxix. 188 My uncle Toby..would sit smoaking his pipe..whilst my father was practising upon his head, and trying..to drive Prignitz and Scroderus's solutions into it. 1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. ii. 268 Out of this belief papacy shaped its purgatory and practised on human credulity and fear. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 67 You have practised on her, Perplext her, made her..Swerve from her duty to herself and us. 1898 H. James Turn of Screw iv, in Two Magics 35 I had not been practised upon by the servants nor made the object of any ‘game’. 1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iv. 162 But surely no really nice woman would deliberately practise on men's instincts in that way. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > act in another's business or intervene [verb (intransitive)] > interfere or meddle > improperly or tamper tamper1601 to practise on1874 1874 J. H. Newman Tracts 167 Photius considers his [sc. St Methodius'] works have been practised upon by heretics. < as lemmas |
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