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Meaning: ; From one'spoint of view,in one's opinion.Synonyms:in one's view,in one's book;see alsoThesaurus:in my opinionTo my mindif you’ve talked to Stacy then you’ve talked to Beth, since they tell each other everything.To her mind, the only thing worse than public speaking is public dancing.c.1599–1602(date written),William Shakespeare,The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke:[…](Second Quarto), London:[…]I[ames]R[oberts]forN[icholas]L[ing][…], published1604,→OCLC, [Act I, scene iv],signature D, recto:Hora[tio]Is it a cuſtome? /Ham[let]. I[aye]marry iſt, / Butto my minde, though I am natiue heere / And to the manner borne, it is a cuſtome / More honourd in the breach, then the obſeruance.1864,J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In which Lake under the Trees of Brandon, and I in My Chamber, Smoke Our Nocturnal Cigars”, inWylder’s Hand.[…], New York, N.Y.: Carleton,[…], published1865,→OCLC,page63:To my mindthere has always been something inexpressibly awful in family feuds.1914,Saki[pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Dusk”, inBeasts and Super-Beasts[…], London:John Lane,The Bodley Head[…],→OCLC,pages125–126:Dusk,to his mind, was the hour of the defeated. Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid their fallen fortunes and dead hopes as far as possible from the scrutiny of the curious, came forth in this hour of gloaming, when their shabby clothes and bowed shoulders and unhappy eyes might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate, unrecognised.1919,W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXV, inThe Moon and Sixpence,[New York, N.Y.]:Grosset & Dunlap Publishers[…],→OCLC,page138:The words were ordinary enough, andto my mindthere was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled.2009April 17,Gabriel Sherman, “The Wail of the 1%”, inNew York[1], New York, N.Y.:New York Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon31 March 2024:To her mind, extreme compensation is a fair trade for the compromises of such a career.; ; (archaic)According to one'sdesireorpreference.Near-synonyms:to someone's liking,to someone's taste1530July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e.,John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, inLesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝[…],[London]:[…][Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns,→OCLC, 3rd boke,folios cclviii, verso – cclix, recto; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972,→OCLC:I haue a perſon or a beeſt accordyngto my mynde⸝ I haue them in ſuche awe as I deſyre:I ay bien a mayn, I haue this boye accordyngeto my mynde:I ay ce garcon bien a mayn, ora mon intencion.1535October 14 (Gregorian calendar),Myles Coverdale, transl.,Biblia: The Byble,[…](Coverdale Bible),[Cologne or Marburg]:[Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?],→OCLC,1 Macchabeesiiij:[6],folio lxij, recto, column 2:But whẽ it was daie, Judas ſhewed himſelf in yͤ felde with thre thouſande men only, which had nether harneſſe ner ſweardesto their myndes.But when it was day,Judas[Maccabeus]showed himself in the field with three thousand men only, which had neither harness nor swordsas they desired.1693, De La Quintinye [i.e.,Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie], “Of Fruit-gardens and Kitchen-gardens. Chapter IV. How to Judge of the Maturity and Goodness of Fruits.”, inJohn Evelyn, transl.,The Compleat Gard’ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-gardens;[…], volume II, London:[…]Matthew Gillyflower,[…], and James Partridge,[…],→OCLC, part V,page86:[T]he Hand muſt likevviſe act its part, and concur therein[with the eye], tho' not to touch it[the fruit]roughly upon theTree(nothing is more offenſive to me than thoſe Gropers, vvho, to gather one accordingto their Mind, vvill ſpoil a hundred by the violent impreſſion of their Unskillful Thumb) but I vvould have the Hand play its part in the manner I ſhall explain hereafter.1719, [Daniel Defoe],The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe;[…], London:[…]W[illiam]Taylor[…],→OCLC,page248:If you vvill put a thouſand Pound to my thouſand Pound, vve vvill hire a Ship here, the firſt vve can getto our Minds;[…]
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