单词 | by rule |
释义 | > as lemmasby (also to, from, according to) rule c. by (also to, from, according to) rule: in accordance with regulations, conventions, or a prescribed method.work to rule: see work v. Phrases 14b. ΚΠ c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. i. 22 (MED) Heore nomes beþ neodful and nempnen hem I þenke, Bi Rule and bi Resun Rehersen hem her-aftur. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 10316 How be reason, or right, or rewle, may þou preue To deme hym so doghty in dedys of armys? 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 768 Good order through continuance of time had planted such a warlike discipline, that nothing was doone among them but by rule. 1630 T. Taylor Progresse of Saints 86 Christianity is no ranging course, or a running at randome, but a life led by rule. c1718 M. Prior Paulo Purganti 16 The picture wrought exact to rule, exempt from fault. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 189 Rufillus, exquisitely form'd by rule,..Wonders at Clodio's follies. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 219 No being acts more rigidly from rule than the Indian. 1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent ii. viii. 279 They speak by rule and by book, though they judge and determine by common-sense. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xviii. 169 Something about Miss Jones's dress was not according to rule. 1918 R. J. C. Stead Cow Puncher iii. 47 She would have to go back to the city, and talk by rule, and dress by rule, and behave by rule, and be correct. 1957 in R. S. Sayers Central Banking after Bagehot i. 1 The central banker is the man who exercises his discretion, not the machine that works according to rule. 1990 Match Fishing Feb. 20/2 Often a match angler will go on the bank and fish to rule. 1991 J. L. Casti Searching for Certainty (1992) i. 28 Scientific explanation and prediction is explanation and prediction by rule, or, as it's sometimes put, by law. < as lemmas |
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