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单词 in piecemeal
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in piecemeal
2. in piecemeal.
a. In or into pieces or fragments. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > into (small) pieces [phrase]
in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275
(all) to shiversc1275
to piecesc1300
asundera1325
to set in sunderc1325
in sunderc1390
in, into shredsc1400
in small1419
in piecemeal?a1425
in piecemealsa1470
by piecemeals1576
in shivers1589
in or into splinters1612
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 136 Albucasis wil þat, if it may not be drawen out with ingenijs ysaid, þat..it be kutted in pecez mele [?c1425 Paris by gobatmele; L. frustatim].
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iv. f. 17/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The fishmongers were forced to hack it in gobb[et]s, and so to cary it in peecemeale throughout the countrey.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. E4v Reuolt, or Ile in peece-meale teare thy flesh.
1617 D. Gale Pyramus & Thisbe xxii Who hath seene a mournefull Doe lament For her young Kid, in peecemeale torne and rent?
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ix. 178 Is any Student tearing his Straw in piece-meal, Swearing and Blaspheming?
1852 B. R. Hall Frank Freeman's Barber Shop x. 172 That non-descript old fellow [sc. Winter]..was snowing, now large flakes, now spitting it out, in piece-meal.
b. One piece at a time; little by little, by degrees.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > specifically [phrase] > in detail
from point to pointa1393
in speciala1398
specialityc1485
in particularity1559
in piecemeal1561
in (the) detail1603
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [phrase] > piecemeal
by piecemealc1325
piece by piecea1500
piece and piecea1522
by lumps1576
in piecemeal1693
in piecemeals1715
(in or by) dribs and drabs1809
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iv. sig. Rr.iiiv [To] vnderstande in peecemeale whatsoeuer belongeth to his people.
1693 W. Freke Sel. Ess. xix. 114 They that can bear Pedantry in Piece-meal, will be even sick when they peruse his Masse of it.
1915 J. Huneker New Cosmopolis 320 Various bands, brass and wood-wind predominating, attack Wagner in piecemeal.
1999 R. L. Callaway Realities of Managem. vi. 90 The leaders in the trenches either implemented the directives from the top slowly and in piecemeal, or just ignored them entirely.
extracted from piecemealadv.n.adj.
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