| 释义 |
poetically, adv.|pəʊˈɛtɪkəlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a poetical manner, style, or form; in poetry or verse; in a way suitable to poetry or a poet.
1552Huloet, Poeticallye, poetice. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xviii. 5 To be enlarged poetically, and with glisteringe ornaments of words. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 132 Some have written Poetically as Ovid. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty xi. 90 How poetically doth the action..carry on the allusion to speed. 1847Tennyson Princ. Concl. 6 What, if you drest it [the story] up poetically!
b. In relation to poetry; as respects poetry.
1697Dryden Eneid Ded. a ij b, It is not necessary the Manners of the Heroe should be virtuous. They are Poetically good if they are of a Piece. 1845Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life III. xi. 197 Books typographically worth about eightpence—poetically good for nothing. |