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单词 to set going
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to set (a-)going
c. Const. gerund with a- prefixed: in this const. and next, often, to put (a thing) in motion or progress, to start; esp. to set (a-)going.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > cause to do or cause to act
makea1225
putc1300
gara1340
have1390
geta1400
to set (a-)going1530
set1577
occasion1587
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > cause to begin to act or operate
to put (also set) to worka1398
to put on work?1440
streek?a1500
setc1500
to put (also set) in (also into) motion1598
spring1598
to set offa1625
to put (also set) in work1626
to set (a-)going1705
start1822
to start up1865
to set in motion1890
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 712/1 Go set these glasses of rose water a sonnyng.
1583 A. Conham in Babington's Commandm. Ded. to Godly Rdrs. (1637) a v j With lesse paines to keepe agoing that which he had moved, and set a going.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ix. 334 Whosoeuer listeth to drinke of it, must set it a cooling for the space of an hower.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xvii. 129 Which perhaps will set..You..a thinking.
1705 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Nat. Relig. i. v. 186 The Impulse of an Almighty Hand to set them first a-going.
1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes iv. 310 All the Water Works were set a going.
1794 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 440 Those who set the plan agoing.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. xiv. 336 Those cards set people sadly a quarrelling.
1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. iv. 292 A morsel of food on the tongue sets a-going the movements of mastication.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges ii. 89 The abbey bells are set a-ringing.
1865 J. B. Mozley 8 Lect. Miracles vii. 159 Influences, which were originally set agoing by that agency.
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