Meaning of to one's mind | Babel Free

Definitions

1. From one's point of view, in one's opinion.
   idiomatic
2. According to one's desire or preference.
   archaic, idiomatic

Examples

“To my mind if 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.”

“Hora[tio] Is it a cuſtome? / Ham[let]. I [aye] marry iſt, / But to my minde, though I am natiue heere / And to the manner borne, it is a cuſtome / More honourd in the breach, then the obſeruance.”

“To my mind there has always been something inexpressibly awful in family feuds.”

“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.”

“The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled.”

“To her mind, extreme compensation is a fair trade for the compromises of such a career.”

“Near-synonyms: to someone's liking, to someone's taste”

“I haue a perſon or a beeſt accordyng to my mynde⸝ I haue them in ſuche awe as I deſyre: I ay bien a mayn, I haue this boye accordynge to my mynde: I ay ce garcon bien a mayn, or a mon intencion.”

“But whẽ it was daie, Judas ſhewed himſelf in yͤ felde with thre thouſande men only, which had nether harneſſe ner ſweardes to their myndes.”

But when it was day, Judas [Maccabeus] showed himself in the field with three thousand men only, which had neither harness nor swords as they desired.

“[T]he Hand muſt likevviſe act its part, and concur therein [with the eye], tho' not to touch it [the fruit] roughly upon the Tree (nothing is more offenſive to me than thoſe Gropers, vvho, to gather one according to 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.”

“If you vvill put a thouſand Pound to my thouſand Pound, vve vvill hire a Ship here, the firſt vve can get to our Minds; […]”

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