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by the same token
a. by the same token or (somewhat archaic) by this (or that) token: (a) on the same ground; for the same reason; in the same way; (b) (= French à telles enseignes que), ‘the proof of this being that’; introducing a corroborating circumstance, often weakened down to a mere associated fact that helps the memory or is recalled to mind by the main fact (now archaic or dialect).Sense (a) represents the predominant modern use (and apparently that current in the 15th cent.). Sense (b) occurs from 1600.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [adverb] > for the same reason or in the same way
by the same token1463
by this (or that) token1463
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [adverb] > on the authority of
by the same token1607
by this (or that) token1857
1463 T. Playter in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 291 And to þis [course] Maister Markham prayed you to agre by þe same token ye meved hym to sette an ende be-twyx you and my maisters your brethern.
1467–8 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 200 When ye come to him by the same token that I said to thabbat, Sir, I have a goode quarrell, the which is the cause of my journey, by that token he will deliver the said writinges unto you.
1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 22 Preamble, Ye may speke with him by the same token that he and y commyned toguyder of matiers touching your maisters sonne.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders i. xxxviii. 305 At Aix in Germany, they were accustomed to shew his breeches, together with the virgin Maries smocke, by the same token that [Fr. à telles enseignes que] the smocke was big enough for a giant.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. ii. 277 Pan: I a token from Troylus. Cres: By the same token you are a Bawde. View more context for this quotation
1660 S. Pepys Diary 28 Feb. (1970) I. 70 Up in the morning, and had some red Herrings to our breakfast while my boot-heel was a-mending; by the same token, the boy left the hole as big as it was before.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 13 Apr. (1970) III. 64 I went to the Temple to church, and there heard another [sermon]. By the same token, a boy, being asleep, fell down a high seat to the ground.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 280 Others caused large Fires to be made..by the same Token..two or three were pleas'd to set their Houses on Fire, and so effectually sweetned them by burning them down to the Ground.
1857 Townsend Max & his Compan. in Househ. Words 26 Dec. 46/2 Max..was..a staunch Roman Catholic... (By this token: Many an argument have I had with him on religion..).
1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 193/2 By the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three quarters long.
1907 P. Dare From School to Stage vii. 126 To receive letters from people whom they do not know, and are, by the same token, never likely to know.
1945 B. Macdonald Egg & I (1946) i. i. 11 If you marry a doctor, don't whine because he doesn't keep the hours of a shoe clerk, and by the same token if you marry a shoe clerk, don't complain because he doesn't make as much money as a doctor.
1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird v. 66 I've dined out on a few stories about her. But not ones that matter. By the same token, she could have made quite a good thing about telling how she saw you..that night.
1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 701/1 By the same token, among the most interesting and valuable sections of this book are those which deal with technique.
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