makeone (third-person singular simple presentmakes one,present participlemaking one,simple past and past participlemade one)
- (now rare) Totake partin, to bepresentat (a group, social event, etc.; later especially a criminal undertaking).[from 16th c.]
1789,John Moore,Zeluco, Valancourt, published2008, page206:Mr. Steele was prevailed on to stay andmake one at a cricket match with some British gentlemen and their footmen, who were at that time at Rome.
- 1808–10,William Hickey,Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 292:
- I had scarcely been once at it, my whole time being given up to my new favourite, Charlotte, in attending her to masquerades, theatres, the Pantheon, and every other public place that was open, to no one of which would she ever consent to go unless Imade one […] .
1828,JT Smith,Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published1986, page142:He for many yearsmade one at the table of what was at this time called the Royal Academy Club[…].
