| 释义 |
† ˈby-speech Obs.
[see by- 2 c, 3 c.]
An incidental or casual speech: an indirect utterance or allusion; an obiter dictum; an ‘aside’.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. (1632) 135 Their common practice is to quote by-speeches in some historicall narration. 1625K. Long Barclay's Argenis ii. vii. 83 His wife..would many times cast out by-speeches of Arsidas. |