| 单词 | in possibility |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin possibility b. in possibility (also later, in a possibility): in such a position that something (expressed or implied) is possible; having a prospect, expectation, or chance (of something or to do something). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [adjective] > expected futurec1374 in a possibility1523 forestalled1543 looked-for1548 anticipatec1550 expected1558 long-looked-for1562 looked1565 in expectation1570 expectable1619 expecting1621 in perspective1633 unsurprising1671 in prospect1694 perspective1710 in prospective1746–7 prospective1809 anticipated1814 presumable1825 anticipatable1872 ex ante1937 the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > while opportunity exists [phrase] > have opportunity in a possibility1523 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. 794 Duke Aubert had nat bene in trewe possession of Heynalt, but in possibylite therof. 1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶viijv I be in such faire possibilitie to be thought a foole, or fantasticall for my labour. 1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles in Wks. (1873) I. 182 That they who are alreadie in possession of it, may beare their heades aloft..and they that are but in possibilitie, may be rauisht with a desire to be in possession. 1605 Famous Hist. Capt. Stukeley sig. B2v I am in possibility to marry Alderman Curtesses Daughter. 1640 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 165 That I should sitt a Judge ther, wheere I was latelie in possibilitie to have been splitt & ruined. 1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici Pref. sig. a2v Heathens, who never did..hear of the name of Christ were yet in a possibility of Salvation. 1775 C. Lennox Old City Manners v. i. 53 First to be stolen from my friends..by a 'prentice, in the disguise of a gentleman, and brought up to London here, and promised marriage, and now likely to be forsaken, for he is in a possibility to be hang'd. in possibility ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > [adjective] potentiala1398 in possibility1587 the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > [adverb] in powerc1325 potentiallyc1450 dispositively1475 in posse1592 habitually1597 in potentia1600 in possibility1711 facultatively1887 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iv. 51 As for God, he is not a thing in possibilitie (which is an vnperfect beeing) but altogether actuallie and in very deede. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 109 They are only in possibility, and not in act. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 191. ¶9 We are apt to rely upon future Prospects, and become really expensive while..only rich in Possibility. 1856 J. P. Collier Coleridge's Seven Lect. on Shakespeare & Milton 36 He had only to imitate certain parts of his own character, or to exaggerate such as existed in possibility, and they were at once true to nature. < as lemmas |
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