Despite advancing age, hismind was still as sharp as ever.
1576,George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance:[…]”, inThe Rocke of Regard,[…], London:[…][H. Middleton] for Robert Waley,→OCLC; republished inJ[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor,The Rocke of Regard,[…] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry;vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed,[1867?],→OCLC,page291:
And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe hismynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen toforeſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes;[…]
“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts ofmind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
I saw the bestminds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,[…]
2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, inRAIL, number970, page45:
That's far from the promised land set out in theWilliams-Shapps Plan for Rail, that the railways would have a guidingmind that would be in control of the industry's finances. Businesses have what is called a profit and loss account, showing both revenue and costs, but the current situation means that the two sides of the system are in different hands - and neither is (as yet) in the hands of a 'guidingmind'.
c.1503–1512,John Skelton,Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor,John Skelton: The Complete English Poems,1983,→OCLC, page64, lines94–99:
I fortuned to come in, Thys rebell to behold, Whereof I hym controld; But he sayde that he wolde Agaynst mymynde and wyll In my church hawke styll.
1859, Charles Dickens,A Tale of Two Cities:
Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had nomind in that direction[…] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article[…]
A healthy mental state.
I, ______ being of soundmind and body, do hereby[…]
The nature of themind is a major topic in philosophy.
1699,William Temple,Heads designed for an essay on conversations[1]:
Study gives strength to themind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
1854, Samuel Knaggs,Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts, page19:
Themind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.
[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger'smind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
Continualprayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
a month's [or monthly]mind; a year'smind
(uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
They are the “tars” who givemind to the spreading sail, and their bold courage is the pabulum which will preserve our sea-girt isle in its vernal green to furthest posterity.
1902, John Buchan,The Outgoing of the Tide:
Then he, havingmind of Beelzebub, the god of flies, fled without a halt homewards; but, falling in the coo's loan, broke two ribs and a collar bone, the whilk misfortune was much blessed to his soul.
2014, Jolie O'Dell,Blogging for Photographers, page66:
If you get a “trolling” comment, delete it, do not respond to it, and move forward immediately without paying any furthermind.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Be of the same mind one toward another.Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
1907E.M. Forster,The Longest Journey, Part I, V [Uniform ed., p. 63]:
It's the worst thing that can ever happen to you in all your life, and you've got tomind it—you've got tomind it. They'll come saying, 'Bear up—trust to time.' No, no; they're wrong.Mind it.
(chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, totake care (that).[from 17th c.]
Mind you don't knock that glass over.
(now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.[from 15th c.]
Upon my coming down, I found all the Children of the Family got about my old Friend, and my Landlady herself, who is a notable prating Gossip, engaged in a Conference with him; being mightily pleased with his stroaking her little Boy upon the Head, and bidding him be a good Child andmind his Book.
2000,George R.R. Martin,A Storm of Swords, Bantam, published2011, page84:
Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns tomind you.
2005, Gillie Bolton,Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development,→ISBN, page xv:
Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.
[…]and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he wasminded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.
(UK,Ireland) Take note;used to point out an exception or caveat.
I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes,mind.
(originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) Todislike, toobject to; to be bothered by.[from 16th c.]
Bolton, Kingsley, Hutton, Christopher (2005)A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press,→ISBN, page276
When the pronounmind(“all”) is the object, it is a definite object:mindet megnézem(“I’ll have a look at all [of them]”). On the other hand, the pronounminden(“everything”) is indefinite as an object:mindent megnézek(“I’ll have a look at everything”).
1Semhogy andsemmint are conjunctions meaning “(rather) than”, “before” (as ininkább meghal,semhogy… ―he'llrather diethan…). 2Valamint is now only used in the sense of “as well as” in enumerations. 3Mindeddig/-addig mean “up until this/that point” (=egészeneddig/addig). Csak following relative pronouns expresses“-ever”, e.g.aki csak(“whoever”);is after “any” pronouns emphasizes “no matter”:akármit is(“no matter what”).
(pronoun & adverb):mind in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
(conjunction):mind in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
The genitive of this term is unexpectedly poorly attested. Its genitive pluralmind is akin to a neuter o-stem, leading to DIL listing it as such. Unlike most u-stems, the declension never has the stem voweli lowering toe even where it is expected.
