单词 | longo intervallo |
释义 | longo intervalloadv. Now rare. At some remove, after a long gap; in spite of the gulf between. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] > gap, chasm, or interval chasm1641 longo intervallo1759 interval1849 gap1857 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. iii The most Vain, and the most Ambitious..have yielded the first place, without dispute; and have been arrogantly content, to be esteem'd as second to your Lordship, and even that also, with a Longo, sed proximi Intervallo.] 1759 in W. Duncombe et al. tr. Horace Wks. II. 65 We are informed by Suetonius, that Horace first published his three Books of Odes, each separately; and, longo intervallo, ‘many Years after’, collected the fourth Book. 1780 Public Advertiser 28 Dec. Tho' St. Andrew's may of all the London Livings be in Value next to Marybone; yet it is ‘longo intervallo’, Marybone not only being of larger specific Profit, [etc.]. 1797 J. Warner Metronariston iii. 74 No poet of eminence..would venture to make so free with sense, as to construct his verse with a pause between the substantive and its adjective..: but Homer has done it..: And similar things have been done by all those who were his followers—longo intervallo. 1826 St. James's Chron. 11 Nov. It [sc. a serial publication] still holds, longo intervallo, the first place in the brilliant family to which it belongs. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 227 Almost all subsequent progress has been made in Germany, Holland, and, longo intervallo, America. 1935 J. C. Masterman Fate cannot harm Me ii. 44 I remember asking him once..who were his literary idols among the moderns. ‘Well,’ he said, ‘Max Beerbohm of course..and then, but longo intervallo, P. G. Wodehouse.’ 1975 S. N. Pandey Educ. & Social Changes Bihar (1900–1921) viii. 169 Hindus form an overwhelming majority, representing 82.6 per cent of the total population and then ‘Longo intervallo’, the Musalmans with 9.6 percent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1759 |
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