单词 | hourly |
释义 | hourlyadj. 1. Of or belonging to an hour; of an hour's age or duration; very recent or brief. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [adjective] shortc888 littleOE shortlya1050 briefc1400 momentlya1425 small?a1439 momentany1447 momentaneous?a1450 stunta1450 momentaryc1485 momentane1510 hourlya1535 sudden1561 momentaneala1581 span-long1593 momentaneana1599 momental1606 narrow1611 timeless1657 concise1785 succinct1796 ultra-short1962 a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 40/2 That an houerly kindnes, sodainely contract in one houre..shold be deper setled..then a long accustomed malice many yeres rooted. 1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari i. i, in Sardanapalus 202 For the present, Foscari Has a short hourly respite. 2. a. Occurring or performed every hour; done, reckoned, etc. hour by hour; frequent, continual. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > hour > [adjective] > occurring every specific number of hours hourly?c1530 horary1632 semi-diurnal1794 bi-hourly1844 ?c1530 Crt. of Love 353 With hourly labour and gret attendaunce. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 171 This is an accident of hourely proofe. View more context for this quotation 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. xiv. 197 In hourly expectation of the Hangman. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. xi. 97 The hourly events of his life. 1808 W. Murdock in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 126 An hourly supply of 1250 cubic feet of the gas. 1883 Women's Suffrage Jrnl. Nov. 198/1 Whether he was paid an hourly, daily, or weekly wage. b. as n. (U.S.) A public conveyance that runs every hour. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > hourly hourly1877 1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) Hourly, formerly used in and about Boston for an omnibus. 1881 Harper's Mag. Feb. 388 The terrors of the ‘hourly’ or omnibus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hourlyadv. 1. Every hour; hour by hour; from hour to hour; continually, very frequently. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > hour > [adverb] hourly1470 1470 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 136 As dayly and howrlye is now..proved. 1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Biv v Ye perylles..innumerable whiche dayly & hourly myght haue happed. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. i. 58 A Mother hourely coyning plots. View more context for this quotation 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 303 The barbarians were hourly expected at the gates of Rome. 1811 Ld. Byron Farewell Malta Two spoonfuls hourly. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adverb] > quickly soonc825 quicklyc1300 rifelya1375 swiftlya1400 hourly1529 apace1535 in less than a lightning1591 quick time1816 succinctly1837 quickstep1855 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 105/2 Partes..suche..as rather nede to be attentely redde and aduised, than houerly harde and passid ouer. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 694/1. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. xvi. f. xliiiv With you peraduenture will I abyde for a whyle..but I would not see you now houerly, & in my passage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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