mind sb. (1, 2 now obs. exc. in phrases)
1.
judgement,
opinion; phr. “in my , to my ,” as I
think Mer.V. IV. i. 408, Ham. I. iv. 14.
2.
purpose, intention,
desire, wish
Err. IV. i. 114
“servants must their
masters' m-s fulfil,”
Mer.V. II. viii. 42,
Tit. V. iii. 1
“it is my father's That I
repair to Rome,”
Cæs. I. ii. 296
“if . . . your mind
hold.”
3.
way of thinking and
feeling with respect to moral qualities
Gent. V. iii. 13
“he bears an honourable
”
(=entertains honourable sentiments),
Cæs. V. i. 113
“He bears too great a
mind.”
4.
disposition,
intention towards others
Gent. I. ii. 33
“I would I knew his
,”
AYL. I. ii. 253,
2H6 III. i. 374
“the commons' , How they
affect the house . . . of York,”
Tim. III. iii. 23, Lr. I. iii. 16.
5.
person (regarded
abstractly as the embodiment of mental qualities)
Sonn. cxvii. 5
“I have frequent been
with unknown minds.”
