| 单词 | by sight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby sight a. The exercise of the faculty of vision; the act of seeing or looking; esp. by sight, frequently denoting merely visual, as contrasted with more intimate, knowledge. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adverb] by sight1297 visually1448 visibly1600 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] eyesenea1225 lookinga1225 sight1297 eyesight?c1335 seeing1372 view?c1475 vision1493 speculation1509 discernment1614 ken1667 outsight1681 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 183 Me knoweþ hem in eche lond bi siȝte þar me hem seþ. c1330 Assump. Virg. 628 (Brit. Mus.) Oure mayne þee knewe þat ilke nyȝt, Bothe bi speche and by syȝt. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 13 I..soiled it with syȝte or sum ydel speche. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xx. 98 On whome my hole delyght Dayly was sette, upon her to have sight. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xiv. 5 The kocatrice keilis wt hir sicht. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xvi. 172 A thousand sortes of hearbes and flowers,..in such sort, as a man cannot well conceive them without sight. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1680 (1955) IV. 213 He told us the things most worthy of our sight, would be, the draughts he had caused to be made. 1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. 334 Then came flocking to him..those too who knew him not but by sight. 1831 Society 1 292 I assure you I mistook the person; Lord Conway is barely known to me by sight. < as lemmas |
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