单词 | to set free, loose, right |
释义 | > as lemmasto set free, loose, right b. With adjective complement; chiefly to set free, loose, right: see also the adjectives. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 713/2 As for your costes, take no thought for, I wyll set you fre. 1569 W. Wager Longer thou Liuest sig. F.iiv Let me helpe you to set your gowne right. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. iii. 30 I cannot thinke, but in the end, the Villanies of man will set him cleere. View more context for this quotation a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) xvi. 8 She is a bad and unloving wife,..who sets him short, and cares not to fit him with pleasing food. 1695 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. (new ed.) §89. 140 His Practice must by no means cross his Precepts, unless he intend to set him wrong. 1780 Mirror No. 92 Who make people laugh, or set them asleep. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 19 An immense quantity of inflammable air set loose. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. iii. 32 Orme's Hindostan, the book..which set poor dear Tom wild to go to India. 1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 37 Let's sit and set things straight now. 1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 155 The death of the old king set them free from their last scruple. < as lemmas |
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