* See more fully Oraik, Eng. of Shak. p. 63 ff.
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doms of the earth’; and Dn 7* ‘it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man’ (RV ‘made to stand’). Cf. Shaks. Comedy of Errors, τι. i. 26, ‘This servitude makes you to keep unwed’; Hamlet, Ill. iii. 186, ‘Make you to ravel all this matter out’; and (without to) Tempest, 1. ii. 172—
‘Here Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit
Than other princesses can that have more time For vainer hours and tutors not so careful.’
2. ‘Make’ was once common in the simple sense
of ‘do.’ There is a single example in AV, Jg 18° ‘What makest thou in this place?’ (π|} ny} apy AD ; RV ‘What doest thou in this place?’ Wye. [1382] ‘What here dost thow?’ [1388] ‘What doist thou here?’ Coy. ‘What makest thou here?’). Cf. Spenser, /Q vu. vi. 25—
‘Whence art thou, and what doost thou here now make?
What idle errand hast thou earths mansion to forsake ?’
3. InJn 8%‘ Whom makest thou thyself?’ (ποιεῖς), and 197 ‘he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God’ (ἐποίησεν), the meaning is ‘ claim to be,’ almost ‘pretend to be.’ This meaning of f pretend ’ or ‘feign’ is seen in Jos 8” ‘Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten’; 9* ‘ They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors’; and Lk 24% * He made as though he would have gone further.’ But even without ‘as if’ the verb is once used in this sense, 2 S 13° ‘Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick’ (S307; LXX μαλακίσθητι; Vulg. languorem simula ; Wye. ‘feyn sijknes’; Cov. ‘make the sicke’; RV ‘feign thyself sick’; cf. v.6 ‘So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick,’ RV ‘and feigned himself sick’). With Lk 24% ef. Ps 28! Coy. ‘thinke no scorne of me, lest (yf thou make the as though thou herdest not) I become like them, that go downe in to ye pytte’; and with 2S 135 ef. Shaks. Two Gent. 1. ii. 102—
‘She makes it strange ; but she would be best pleased To be so anger’d with another letter.’
4. There are some phrases: (1) Make ado, Mk 5” ‘Why make ye this ado, and weep?’ Cf. Nu 16? Tind. ‘Ye make ynough to doo ye childern of Levi.’ See Apdo. (2) Make away=destroy, Dn 11“ ‘he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many’ (0°22 oad: Town; LXX ἀφανίσαι καὶ ἀποκτεῖναι πολλούς ; Vulg. ut con- terat et interficiat plurimos; Wyc. [1382] ‘for to breke to gydre, and slea ful manye,’ [1388] ‘to al to-breke, and to sle ful many men’; Gen. ‘to destroy and roote out many’; Dou. ‘to destroy and kil very’ manie’); 1 Mac 16” ‘he laid hands on them that were come to destroy him, and slew them ; for he knew that they sought to make him away’ (airdv ἀπολέσαι ; RV ‘to destroy him’). Cf. Dt 32% Tind. ‘I have determened to scater them therowout the worlde, and to make awaye the remembraunce of them from amonge men’; Mt 27 Rhem. ‘ But the cheefe Priestes and auncients persuaded the people, that they should aske
arabbas, and make Iesus away’; Spenser, On Ireland, ‘Clarence ... soon r, by sinister means, was clean made away’; and Shaks. As You Like It, v.i. 58, ‘I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life into death.’ (3) Make for=help, Ezk 17" ‘Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war’ (729222 We Ayy:; LXX ποιήσει πρὸς αὐτὸν πόλεμον ; Vulg. factet contra eum prelium; Wye. ‘make batayle agens hym’; Cov. ‘maynteyne him in the warre,’ after whom the correct transla- tion is found, except Dou. ‘make battel agaynst i 2)ig a 11: tee us therefore follow ater. ae things which make for peace’ (τὰ τῆς εἰρήνης ; δ. τ ΟΣ sunt ; Wyc. ‘tho thingis that ben of pees’: we owe the idiomatic tr. ‘which make for
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peace’ to Tindale). Tind. in a note to Lv 13 says, ‘This chapter maketh not for confession in the eare, but is an example of excommunicacion off open sinners.’ The phrase is not obsolete, it occurs in M. Arnold’s famous definition (Zit. and Dogma, i.) ‘The not ourselves which is in us and all around us became to them adorable eminently and altogether as a power which makes for right- eousness,’ but no doubt this is a recollection of Ro 14", Τὴ older Eng. the phrase was cften make to, as Udal’s Erasmus’ NT, ii. fol. 288, ‘those thinges that are availeable to the life of heaven, and make to the glory of Christ’; and Davenant (Fuller’s Life, 314), ‘I shewed no letter or instruc- tions, neither have any but these generall instruc- tions, which King James gave us at our going to Dort, which make little or nothing to this business.’ (4) Make up=put together, complete, Ezr δ᾽ ‘ Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?’ (RV ‘to finish this wall’); Ezk 13°‘ Ye have not gone into the gaps, neither made up the hedge’; Mal 3” ‘ And they shall be mine, saith the LorD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels’ (app ny wy wey OVD... PINS LXX Καὶ ἔσονταί μοι. . . els ἡμέραν ἣν ἐγὼ ποιῶ els περιποίησιν ; Vulg. Et erunt mihi... in die qua ego facio, in peculium, whence Wye. ‘And thei shuln be to me... in the day in whiche Y shal make, into a special tresoure,’ and Coy. ‘And in the daye that I wil make. . . they shalbe myne owne possession,’ and that is no doubt the correct rendering ; so RV ‘And they shall be mine... in the day that I do make, even a peculiar treasure,’ or more clearly in marg. ‘in the day that I do this,’ which is the tr. of the Geneva Version *) ; 2Co 9" ‘and make up beforehand your bounty’ (προκα- Cf. Shaks. Rich. III. τ. i. 21—