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单词 to think good
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to 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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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