单词 | instructively |
释义 | instructivelyadv. So as to educate, inform, or enlighten; in an instructive manner. Now frequently as a sentence adverb, emphasizing the informative or enlightening nature of a statement.Also (in quot. 1719): †by means of instruction (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [adverb] instructively1618 didacticallya1626 teachingly1871 society > education > teaching > [adverb] > by way of instruction instructively1719 1618 G. Chapman in tr. Hesiod Georgicks sig. A3v Here beeing no dwelling on any one subiect; but of all humane affaires instructiuely concluded. 1631 J. Mabbe in tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd Ep. Ded. sig. A iijv It is written reprehensively and not instructively. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 3591 Whilst Books Instructively do Science raise. 1750 M. Clancy Memoirs I. 118 He was full of the Subject, and in his way home entertained me with it most instructively. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 84 No order can be more instructively studied. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. viii. 145 No exercises of reason..are so closely and instructively parallel as these two. 1910 Scott. Hist. Rev. Jan. 207 These [hand-guns] contrast instructively with the developed type of the early sixteenth century. 1981 N.Y. Times 8 Sept. a23/1 Instructively, the President dropped in, smiling, only days after fresh revelations from Washington of his continuing budget-cutting rampage. 1995 Language 71 204/2 The story is told intelligently, interestingly, and instructively. 2006 Church Times 24 Feb. 22/1 Instructively, Pentecostalism remains comparatively weak in North America. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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