| 单词 | by metaphor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby metaphor a. adverbial, †by cas, by chance, by force, by guess, by hook or by crook, by might; and others for which an adverb might easily be substituted, as by consequence, †by cover (= covertly), †by matter in deed (? = as an actual fact), by metaphor, †by name (= especially), †by occasion, †by particular, by stealth. [Here French has usually par.] See the various substantives. ΚΠ 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 490 He vel of is palefrey, & brec is fot bi cas. c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 10700 Vow that is made by right Ow no man to breke by might. 1475 Bk. Noblesse 31 Provided that..no man take vitaile beforce. 1531 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student (new ed.) liv. f. cxlvii Yt ys not alleged in the Indyctment by matter in dede that he had such wepon. 1544 T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1560) R vij Hitherto have I declined by occasion. 1565 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 113 That no..person..succour by cover or operte, any apprentice. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. D5v Either by hooke, or crooke, by night or day. a1586 Answ. Cartwright 17 He alleadgeth another proofe by peraduenture. 1604 G. Babington Comf. Notes: Exod. i. (Exod.) xvi. 263 This Manna followed the Israelites whatsoeuer the earth was: and by name in the wildernesse. 1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 117 These persons by particular are said to be by the statute rogues. 1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. i. v. 8 Ponderous, and by Consequence probable to settle..on the Earth. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 145 Some prying Churl had..thence, By Stealth, convey'd th' unfeather'd Innocence. View more context for this quotation 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 145. ⁋6 He snatches Kisses by Surprise. 1751 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) V. v. 90 They might not imagine that the world was..made by chance. 1836 W. S. Landor Pericles & Aspasia I. 224 I am not speaking by metaphor and asiatically. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 649 (note) I have therefore been forced to arrange them [the events] by guess. < as lemmas |
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