单词 | currently |
释义 | currentlyadv. 1. In the manner of a flowing stream; with easy rapid movement; smoothly, fluently, readily. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [adverb] > without hindrance or encumberment freelyeOE wellOE freec1250 glidderly13.. without (also but) lettingc1330 oliver current1466 smootha1500 pronewise1585 currently1586 glib1594 glibly1607 clearly1612 swimminglya1640 smoothly1668 uninterrupted1677 unobstructedly1788 smack-smooth1802 sweetly1825 sweet1846 unimpededly1846 hitchlessly1910 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adverb] currently1586 aflow1830 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adverb] > fluently renablyc1330 currently1586 fluently1613 fluidly1678 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. G.iii v The English wordes..wyll become any one of ye most accustomed sortes of Latine or Greeke verses meetely, and run thereon somewhat currantly. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xv. i. 223 Neither went things currantly with him..; the siege tooke no effect. 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica lxx. 900 The spouts will not runne currantly, if we pump not deep. 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver ix. 54 To pare old Trenches..whose edges will grow so thick with Grasse, that thou canst not get thy water to passe currently. 1768 Woman of Honor I. 131 Lady Harriet..very currently took her share of the intended presents. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 137 While he holds the reins we roll smoothly and currently along. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. ix. 147 How currently does the work proceed? 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. xi. 206 Able to read in public currently and correctly. 2. In current use, practice, opinion, belief, report, or acceptance; generally, commonly among mankind, popularly; now, at the present time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] noweOE nowtheOE nughuOE todayOE nowthenc1225 orc1275 in presentc1330 in this presentc1330 now by dawec1330 of present1340 presentc1385 nowadays?1387 adaysa1393 nowadaya1393 now on daysa1393 presently?a1425 now of daysc1425 now-o'-daysc1450 at (the) presenta1500 at this presenta1500 nowdaysa1500 currently1579 on the presenta1616 actually1663 nowanights1672 naow1824 at this (or the) present speaking1835 again1837 contemporarily1837 nowdays1850 any more1859 hic et nunc1935 at this moment in time1936 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adverb] > prevalently rivedlyc1300 rifely1357 currently1579 widely1579 vulgarly1617 epidemically1641 endemically1661 prevalently1709 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 414 Songs and ballets..currantly song in euery place. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxiii. 167 Many..which beare that name, and currantly passe among us. View more context for this quotation 1719 J. Richardson Sci. Connoisseur 89 A Story which passes very currently. 1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru II. iv. v. 179 He..was detained at home, as currently reported, by illness. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (1876) i. 5 The view currently taken. 1947 J. Hayward Prose Lit. since 1939 ii. 20 The same writer..is currently writing a section of the secret history of the war. 1969 ‘A. Glyn’ Dragon Variation vi. 187 These were probably the two most exciting and original games [of postal chess] he was currently playing. 1971 Daily Tel. 8 June 10/3 They are currently to be seen at the Hampstead Theatre Club. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > [adverb] with (also of) one mouthOE with (also of, at) one accordc1275 common assentc1300 at onec1320 with one stevenc1320 at a voicea1325 at one wordc1325 covinlichec1330 in one (also o) voicea1393 with one (also o, a) voice?a1400 in one vote1546 of all hands1548 perlassent1548 una voce1567 by common consent1574 consentively1578 concordably1579 currently1593 unanimately1599 by or with one assent1611 unanimously1611 unanimely1625 consentingly1660 harmoniously1671 univocally1671 consentaneously1817 concurringly1840 solidly1865 solid1884 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 16 Which maketh the simple and ignorant to thinke they euen see how the worde of God runneth currantly on your side. 1658 R. Baxter Of Saving Faith iii. 15 In which you know how currantly the schoolmen..are against you. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < adv.1579 |
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