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单词 to take up in trust
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to take up in (also upon) trust
c. to take on (also upon) trust (formerly also †to take up in (also upon) trust to receive in trust and variants): to believe or accept a statement, story, etc., without seeking verification or evidence for it.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > bring to belief, convince [verb (transitive)] > be convinced, swallow
feela1200
to take on trust1590
swallow1594
to take up1617
to take upon content1646
to take in1823
1590 Remonstrance iv. 85 Those that take vp all of trust, are forced often to lye by it.
1641 E. Nicholas Let. 10 Aug. in Papers (1886) I. 4 Being constrayned to take upp all my intelligence concerning Parliament affaires upon trust.
1642 J. Howell The Vote 5 Scribling Pamphletors..thrust Lame things upon the world, t'ane up in trust.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxxix. 78 Ey-witnesses of those things which other receive but in trust.
1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. Introd. 2 Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them.
1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. vi. 36 Inquisitive and active spirits are little inclined to take any thing upon trust.
1823 Ld. Byron Wks. XI. App. 80 That numerous body who take things on trust.
1868 J. Martineau Ess., Philos. & Theol. in Writings II. 98 The critic..must..take what is set before him on trust.
1903 A. Conan Doyle in Public Press (New Albany, Indiana) 20 Oct. Take nothing upon trust in business.
1966 N. Gordimer Late Bourgeois World 27 He has to take on trust what he is told.
2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) viii. 195 I simply took it on trust.
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