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with the most inclined
b. Followed by the and a superlative used absol.: As well or thoroughly as; (as) one of, ‘among’, ‘of’: forming adverb (or †predicative) phrases denoting ‘to the full or fullest extent’, ‘(nearly) as —— as any or as possible’, ‘very ——’, ‘highly ——’: e.g. with the best: see best adj., n.1, and adv. Phrases 3f; with the first, as one of the first, very early, chiefly, especially (see first adj., adv., and n.2 Phrases 1a); with the least = at the lowest estimate; † with the most inclined = highly inclined. Obsolete or archaic.
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a1300 K. Horn (Harl.) 1119 Þou shen[c]h vs wiþ þe vurste.
a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 1656 The king..kep the leuedi with the best.
1445 tr. Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis in Anglia (1905) 28 281 Why is not he redde with the worthiest?
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. lxviii. 531 Soo that nyghte they were lodged with the best.
1477 J. Pympe in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 415 I wold have hym [sc. a horse] sumwhat large, not wyth the largist.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) clxii. 634 Thyne armure is good and thy sworde is with the best.
1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 41v If ther be anie sommewhat with the moste enclined to pleasures.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 21v Who pescods delighteth, to haue with the furst, if now ye do sowe them, I think it not wurst.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 45 Not to mowe your Grasse with the latest, but before the seede be ripe.
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) i. sig. C2 A young stripling..that can sleep with the soundest, eate with the hungriest.
1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 376 Of all the difficulties of Truth and Faith, the Article of Christs Resurrection is with the formost.
1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 494 There was no year, wherein he did not gain a thousand Duckats, to speak with the least.
1826 Priestley's Rudim. 55 The preposition with is..sometimes used in conversation, to express a degree..something less than the greatest; as ‘They are with the widest.’
1864 Ld. Tennyson Grandmother v, in Enoch Arden, etc. 116 At your age, Annie, I could have wept with the best.
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