单词 | to think good |
释义 | > as lemmasto think good (a) In impersonal constructions and (now chiefly) with non-referential it as subject and that-clause or infinitive as complement, as to seem (also appear) good, †to like good (cf. like v.1), †to think good (cf. think v.1). ΚΠ OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. iv. 266 Me is þus geþuht god [L. mihi uisum est bonum], þæt gehwilc man ete & drince & bruce þære blisse of his agnum weorce & gewinne. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5030 Ȝiff himm þinnkeþþ god. he maȝȝ Þe ȝifenn he[o]ffness blisse. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. i. 57 Glosynge þe Gospel as hem good likeþ. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. v. f. lxv That other shalle answere as hyr semeth good. c1500 Melusine (1895) 108 Madame, yf it lyke you good they doo soo, I assent gladly therto. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Confirmacion f. ix* It is thought good that none hereafter shall be confirmed, but suche [etc.]. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 95 To charge the enemie by land..if it seemed good to her Highnesse so to doe. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 41 It seemed good..to his Holinesse, not to canonize Garnet..but onely to beatificate him. 1793 E. Burke Let. 6 Nov. in Corr. (1963) VII. 473 It has not yet appeared good to the Politicks of Ministers here or abroad to permit [etc.]. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. at Bankrupt The Lord Chancellor grants a commission to such discreet persons as to him shall seem good, who are then styled commissioners of bankrupt. 1881 T. W. Fowle Poor Law iv. 86 Paupers who, as they must be maintained somehow, it was thought good should be set to work. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 8 Apr. 3/1 A [golf] championship has never once been played in the West of England—and..it seemed good to the delegates to form a sub-committee..to look into the causes. 2010 P. Fisk In the Trees 237 I went to the government, and I put it to them that they should allow us to settle on this land. And it seemed good to the government too. They allowed me a thousand acres. to think (also consider, †see, etc.) good (b) With personal subject and implied or expressed object, as to think (also consider, †see, etc.) good. Now usually with non-referential it as object and that-clause or infinitive as complement. Cf. fit adj. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > fitting or proper methelyeOE ylikeeOE fairOE i-meteOE rightOE becomelyc1175 proper?c1225 featc1325 conablea1340 rightful1340 worthyc1350 pursuanda1375 covenable1382 dignec1385 convenablec1386 thriftyc1386 sittingc1390 comenablea1400 gainlya1400 meeta1400 wortha1400 convenientc1400 meetlya1425 suinga1425 fitc1440 tallc1440 worthyc1450 good1477 dueful?a1527 beseeminga1530 fitting1535 straighta1538 decent1539 answerable1542 becoming1565 condecent1575 becomed1599 respective1605 befittinga1612 comely1617 decorous1664 shape-like1672 beseemly1737 farrantly?1748 fitly1840 in order1850 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 66 Som thinke it goode, that euery body were of like condicion. 1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Hours Recreat. (1576) 76 Kill, if you thinke good, all the dogges that are here. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 184 Others may doe as they see good. c1680 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 112 Thus much I thought good to premise. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. viii. 38 He left Dendermond to itself,—to be relieved or not by the French king, as the French king thought good. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. ii. vi. 135 Necker, sees good..to withdraw softly, almost privily. 1891 ‘B. Roy’ Guy Mervyn II. xxi. 47 Elaine considered it good that they should meet. Guy was ready to trust her judgment. 1957 J. F. Huntington tr. Sièyes Declar. Rights of Man in tr. B. de Jouvenel Sovereignty 257 Every citizen is equally free to use his muscles, his industry and his capital resources in the way he thinks good and useful for himself. 1996 W. D. Taylor in E. A. Nuñez & W. D. Taylor Crisis & Hope in Lat. Amer. (rev. ed.) v. 209 Many [women] thought it good that the man have experience in sexual behavior before marriage. < as lemmas |
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