单词 | to set up for oneself |
释义 | > as lemmasto set up for oneself a. to set up for oneself, to start on a career on one's own account. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (intransitive)] > establish > establish oneself in a career to set up for oneself1622 commence1642 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 55 He got him a Stocke, to set vp for himselfe in the world. 1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 268 Three of them set up for themselves, Pescennius Niger in the East, Septimius Severus in Illyricum, and Clodius Albinus in Britain. 1727 A. Boyer Dictionaire Royal (rev. ed.) (at cited word) After this Victory over Mark Anthony, Augustus had a mind to set up for himself. 1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa (1854) xviii. 153 No sooner is a new thought imparted, than it sets up for itself, and denies its pedigree. < as lemmas |
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