单词 | chaos-like |
释义 | > as lemmasˈchaos-like ˈchaos-like †(a) adv.in a chaotic manner, haphazardly (obsolete); (b) adj.chaotic, disordered. ΚΠ 1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in Diella sig. E5 Griefe would not let the wryter tedious be, Nor would it suffer him fit words to sort, but pens it (chaos-like) confusedly. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie To Rdr. sig. (b)2 By dissoluing of this Chaos-like or confused Lump. a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1673) 277 A mediocrity of care to see that matters lie not too Chaos-like. 1733 Pract. Husbandman & Planter I. i. p. lvi Those gloomy Shades of Ignorance and Inactivity, under which (Chaos like) the World had long wandered. 1747 E. Teft Orinthia's Misc. 140 A Chaos-like Confusion fills your Breast, And thoughts in Embryo kill your wonted Rest. 1858 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 10 Mar. Sea, air and sky, chaos-like, seem near and far. 1905 Musical Opinion Mar. 418/3 Mahler of Vienna—whose chaos-like Symphony of one hour and a quarter's duration was performed at a recent Court Theatre Symphony Concert. 2014 H.-D. Lee Spirit, Qi & Multitude vii. 194 The transcendental and indeterminate—chaos-like—conditions of the genesis of the cosmos. < as lemmas |
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