释义 |
invisibly, adv.|ɪnˈvɪzɪblɪ| [f. as prec. + -ly2.] In an invisible manner; so that it cannot be seen; imperceptibly.
1382Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 522 Þat same body and blood invisibily, and not þe same visibely. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. viii. xxviii. (W. de W.) X vij/2 Heuen byshynyth not in derknesse nother by nyght. Thenne alwaye lyght shynyth Inuysibly. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 219 b, Those thynges yt he wrought inuisybly in vs at our baptym. 1643J. Burroughes Exp. Hosea vi. (1652) 262 God doth great things sometime so invisibly, as he cannot be seen. 1709Steele Tatler No. 138 ⁋2 To be invisibly good, is as God-like, as to be invisibly ill, Diabolical. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 84 The gaseous carbonic acid invisibly distributed through the surrounding atmosphere. |