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单词 to practise on
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to practise on (also upon) —
11. intransitive to practise on (also upon) —.
a. To play a trick on; to manipulate, esp. through trickery or deceit. Now literary.
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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.
b. To tamper with, to corrupt. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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