单词 | indianly |
释义 | Indianlyadv. rare. 1. In an American Indian manner or style.In quot. 1599 with allusion to tobacco-smoking. ΚΠ 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. P4 On English foote: wanton Italianly: Go Frenchly: Duchly drink: breath Indianly. 1919 Dial 23 Aug. 163/1 There is an Algonquian word which an ethnologist would translate accurately as Dawn. But a poet would translate it..more Indianly as ‘Hither-whiteness-comes-walking’. 1996 S. B. Pratt in H. B. Mokros Interaction & Identity xi. 240 I am concerned with communicative behaviors that are enacted ‘Indian-ly’ as opposed to ‘tribally’. 2. In a manner or style characteristic of India or its culture. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of India > [adverb] Indianly1837 1837 E. Eden Let. 25 Dec. in Up the Country (1983) viii. 53 I don't know why, but I am particularly Indianly low to-day. 1995 T. R. Trautmann in D. O. Hughes & T. R. Trautmann Time ii. 190 Stressing Vedic antecedents for Indian time tends to paint it as timelessly Indian, and Indianly timeless. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1599 |
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