单词 | what needs one——? |
释义 | > as lemmaswhat needs one——? d. what needs one——?: what need is there for one to do something? Obsolete (chiefly Scottish in later use). extracted from needv.2 (a) intransitive. With to-infinitive. Obsolete. ΚΠ α. β. c1480 (a1400) St. Adrian 197 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 277 Quhat ned þe to begyne þe thing þat þu mycht nocht bring til ending??1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. xii. sig. l What nede me to bryng in octauia, syster vnto augustus, for an example?c1395 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 2000 Sith ye han so holy meke a wyf, What nedeth yow, Thomas, to maken stryf? a1475 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 74 (MED) What nedyth a man to spar the ȝate Whan ther ys nothyng yn the weye? c1480 (a1400) St. Clement 359 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 383 Quhat nedis ws fadir hym to cal? 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. ii. 15 What nedeth me then to laboure eny more for wyszdome? 1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Dviv What shuld nede me to geue a peny to haue my bylles warranted? 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. iv. f. cciv Quhat nedit our saluiour to eik yir wordis? a1586 Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 178 Quhat neidis ȝow to maik it sua. (b) intransitive. With bare infinitive. Obsolete. ΚΠ α. β. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 189 What nede you be abast?1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 195 What neede hem caren for their flocks, Theyr boyes can looke to those.1794 W. J. Mickle Poems 40 Her end accomplishd, and her hopes at stay, What need her now, she recks, one smyle bestow.c1395 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 1955 What nedeth yow diverse freres seche? c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Biij When man hath inough what nedeth him haue more? 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. ii. 30 What needes me care for any bookish skill. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 63 What needs me heal't, na, na, it winna dee, An' gin I sud, I wad na now be free. 1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell i. ii. 50 What needs us count and cast offences up That all we know of, how all these have one head, The hateful head of unstanched misbelief? < as lemmas |
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