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单词 by course
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by course
a. a command, law, rule, will, or any standard of action. So in phrases by book, †by course (= in turn), by heart, by rote, by row (= in order). (See the nouns.)
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a1000 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 634 Se Birinus com þider be Honorius wordum.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxiv. 10 Ferde to þam lande be his hlafordes hæse.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 97 Todelende u wilchen bi þan þet him iwurð.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13052 Þi broþer wijf þat þou agh not to haf be lau.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 9589 Mercy þou owest to haue bi riȝt.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 16 I will that they be revardyd..by the discrecion of my executours.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 11 To be songe solemply be note.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 8 And tell what Rules he did it by.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 409. ¶7 In examining Æneas his Voyage by the Map.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 665 The right by which freeholders chose knights of the shire.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 14 By the left.—Quick march. By the right.—Quick march.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. v. 158 They had timed their journey by the tides.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 46 We judge a stranger by our home~bred ways.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur (1816) I. 52 The barons..assayed all by row, but none might speed.1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia ii. sig. Jviiiv The women of euery famelie by course haue the office..of cokerye.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum By herte, memoriter.c1579 G. Harvey in Athenæum 789/1 His œconomicks..every on hath by rote.1709 J. Addison & R. Steele Tatler No. 93. ⁋4 I am therefore obliged to learn by book.a1834 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk (1874) 91 In Germany, the hymns are known by heart by every peasant.
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by course
a. by course.
(a) According to the usual, proper, or customary process or procedure; according to the natural or expected progress of events; as a consequence; in due course. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > as a habit or custom > according to the usual or natural course
by course of1470
by coursec1540
of course1542
on course1619
in course of1653
par for the course1947
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 4994 (MED) Euery wilde dere a-store Hij mowen by cours ernen tofore.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 23 Moche sorowe for þe sight & sobbyng of teres..hom be course felle.
1549 H. Latimer 1st Serm. before Kynges Grace sig. Bviiv The kynges grace hath systers..whych by succession and course are inheritours to the crowne.
1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. i. sig. B7v So by course my lease might bee long.
1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 78 That it may..not be violently forced into a high Fermentation; for then by Course the Salt and Sulphur will be too violently agitated.
1751 A. MacDowall Inst. Laws Scotl. Civil Rights 511 Another ordinary has, by course, the charge of preparing and making up the states in concluded causes.
(b) By turns, in turn, alternately. Obsolete.
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the world > time > change > alternation > [adverb]
changeablyc1384
alternately1432
interchangeably1483
handy-dandya1529
time about1537
by course1548
at (by) intervals1588
alternatively1591
reciprocally1603
by reprises1607
alternally1627
alterably1635
altern1667
alternate1715
by vicissitudes1749
alternatingly1845
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. ii. f. 27 And by course questioning with them.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. ii. sig. B6v They tooke their iourney..Claius & Strephon by course carying his chest for him.
1622 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1661) 38 These Psalms we sing or say by course, The Priest one verse, and the people another.
1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 201 As though that could not be known which knows not again by course.
a1708 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 493 [To] sing to themselves or to another by course..or one after another.
1730 T. Boreman Descr. Three Hundred Animals 67 During the space of three-score Days, it lays every day an Egg; and within the like space of Time they are hatch'd into young Ones, by sitting or lying upon them by course, the Male one while and the Female another.
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