| 单词 | by means |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby means ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > that which is interjacent meana1400 moyen1483 umpire1605 intermedium1611 intermediate1650 middle1665 between-lier1674 borderland1821 border-ground1871 border-world1878 grey zone1900 twilight zone1909 grey area1935 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [adverb] > through intermediate links by meansa1400 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 23 (MED) A gristil..schulde be a meene bitwene þe vttir ende of þe hard boon & þe neische fleisch. 1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 270/2 Of whiche Doughter by menes is comen ye Erle. c1440 (a1349) R. Rolle Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 16 All menes lettande be-twyx þe saule and þe clennes of angells es brokene and put awaye fra it. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 21 (MED) The harde [pannicle] þat it myȝte be a mene bitwene þe scolle & þe pia mater, and þe neische..þat it myȝte be a meene bitwene þe harde and þe brayn. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. lxiii. 85 It was determyned, that bothe parties..shulde sende foure or fyue personages, as their embassodours, and to mete at Arras; and the pope in likwyse to sende thyder foure, and ther to make a full confirmacyon without any meane. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccli. 564 All the gentylmen of Flaunders sware to hym to be good and true..without any meane, wherfore therle was greatly reioysed. 1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. B.ij That the grystle should be a meane betweene the Lygament and him [sc. the bone]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. ii. 141 So doe I wish the Crowne, being so farre off, And so I chide the meanes that keepes me from it. View more context for this quotation by (the) means (also mean) (that) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [phrase] > for that reason or because of that or inasmuch as in thatc1175 for as mickle asc1390 in as (also so) mickle (as)c1390 in that thatc1450 by (the) means (also mean) (that)1549 by and by1565 in regard1600 in that (also this) view1688 1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Civv White meate beareth a greate price Which some men thinke is by the meane That fermes be found such marchadice. 1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 529 But sure we were that the armie was come downe, by meanes that in the euening we sawe such a monstrous fire. 1596 J. Harington Apol. sig. Bb8 I guessed at his meaning, by meanes I had once some smattering of the Latin tonge. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 394 The gut bursten, and flanke bursten, doth proceed both of one cause, that is to say, by meanes that the skinne, called before Peritoneum, is either sore strained, or else broken. a1612 J. Harington Let. in Nugæ Antiquæ (1769) I. 35 By means the weather falls out so monstrous wet as the like hath not been seen. < as lemmas |
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