单词 | to the height |
释义 | > as lemmasto the height 19. to the height. To the highest or utmost degree; to the extremity; to the utmost. Obsolete except in literary use. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > in or to the greatest degree never solOE with (also mid) the mostc1275 for the masteryc1325 to the bestc1390 to the uttermostc1400 at the hardest1429 to the utmostc1450 to the skies (also sky)1559 at float1594 all to nothing1606 to the height1609 to the proofa1625 to the last degree1639 to the welkin?1746 (the) worst kind1839 for all it's worth1864 as —— as they make them?a1880 in the highest1897 to the nth (degree, power)1897 up to eleven1987 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 183 Syne he drew him to the hicht, To stynt bettir his fais mycht.] 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 3 Let vs feast him to the hight . View more context for this quotation 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. ii. 215 By day and night Hee's Traytor to th' height . View more context for this quotation 1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 136 It is his interest..to improve his ground to the height. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 57 Carrying antinomianism to the heighth. 1798 W. Clubbe Omnium 114 His Colonel..Goes to the Serjeant, praises to the height. 1823 C. Lamb South-sea House in Elia 8 While he held you in converse, you felt strained to the height in the colloquy. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 130 For once—ev'n to the height—I honour'd him. < as lemmas |
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