单词 | adumbratively |
释义 | adumbrativelyadv. In an adumbrative manner; by way of adumbration. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adverb] sidelings?a1400 covertlyc1400 impliedlyc1449 by implicationa1575 implicatelya1575 implicatively1579 over the shoulder1596 interpretatively1602 implicitly1610 indirectly1613 insinuatively1617 enfoldedly1624 involvedly1624 tacitly1635 tacidly1640 by interpretation1692 adumbratively1753 inexplicitly1776 interpretively1867 society > communication > indication > [adverb] > slightly adumbratively1862 1753 B. Holloway Let. & Spirit xliv. 357 Ev'ry Thing was transacted, adumbratively, in the old Testament, before it was done, substantially, in the New. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiv. iii. 640 England, or, as it is adumbratively called, ‘the Manor of St. James's’. 1915 J. P. Baxter Greatest of Lit. Probl. xii. 455 He adumbratively entertains us with historic combats between Henry IV and Philip II. 1960 Rev. Metaphysics 13 367 A perceptual object is a sense datum which is oriented in a substance adumbratively grasped as its locus and ground. 1994 Contemp. European Hist. 3 230 Each of these shares the common attribute of providing a clear introduction to the national experience of the twentieth century and discussing, albeit adumbratively, the major developments of the era. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1753 |
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