单词 | to set store by |
释义 | > as lemmasto set (great, etc.) store by b. In various phrases with the sense ‘to value, esteem, prize; make account of’: †to tell, make, hold, set (great, little, no) store of (obsolete); †to set at (much, little) store (obsolete); to set (great, etc.) store by; to †put, set (great, etc.) store upon. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > estimate [phrase] > value at specific rate to set (so) little (or lite), (so) much (or mickle, a great deal), less, least, more, most byc1374 to set at (much, little) storec1386 to set (great, etc.) store byc1386 to set little, more, nought, not, of1390 to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395 accounta1450 to set greatly, littly, lightly, so, etc. by1530 to conceive well, ill, etc. (of)1535 count1602 to set —— value on also upon1625 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [verb (transitive)] haveeOE weenc1000 praisec1250 setc1374 set by1393 endaunt1399 prizec1400 reverencec1400 tender1439 repute1445 to have (also make, take) regard to or that1457 to take, make, set (no) count of (upon, by)c1475 pricec1480 to make (great, etc.) account (also count, esteem, estimation, reckoning, regard, store) of1483 force1509 to look upon ——c1515 to have (also hold) in estimationc1522 to make reckoning of1525 esteem1530 regard1533 to tell, make, hold, set (great, little, no) store of1540 value1549 to make dainty of (anything)1555 reckon1576 to be struck on1602 agrade1611 respect1613 beteem1627 appreciate1648 to put, set (an) esteem, a high, low esteem upon1665 to think small beer of1816 to think the world of1826 existimate1847 reckon1919 rate1973 c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 203 And by my fey I tolde of it no stoor They had me yeuen hir gold and hir tresoor. 1413 in 26 Pol. Poems xii. 28 I wolde set hit at lytel store. c1440 J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep 440 But here this sheepe..Set litill stoor of swerd or Arwis keene. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 4 For hem þat hold no store Of wisdom. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 29 Bi me he settys no store, And I am his soferan. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. c. [xcvi.] 293 They wolde make no stoore of hym. 1540 J. Palsgrave in tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus i. i. sig. Div If thou..set any store by thy helth. 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. vi. f. 115 If I should make a litle store of them, for whome I had done so muche [L. si, in quos tam magna contuleram, viliores mihi facerem]. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer sig. Yy.iii He deserued not to haue anye more store made of him. 1569 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiop. Hist. iv. 59 And therefore I should lose that I sette moste stoare by. 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 159 They [the Jesuits] make no more store of a man or woman's life,..then they do of the death of a dogge or a mouse. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. v. 108 Those Medicines which will do the greatest Feats, are least Store set by. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 36 The bird had little or no store set by him. 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl V. ii. 45 The precious metal, on which they set so high a store. 1862 J. Ruskin Unto this Last iv. 118 Much store has been set for centuries upon the use of our English classical education. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iii. xiv. 331 Upon the Icelandic sagas many have put great store. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 659 The reader will perhaps not be inclined to set much store by the authority of Osbern. 1895 Law Times 99 546/2 Students..though they may attend classes..do not rely on or..set much store by them. 1908 J. B. Mayor in Expositor July 19 She sets more store by her own vow than by the promise of the Messiah. < as lemmas |
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