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单词 locomotively
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locomotivelyadv.

Brit. /ˌləʊkəˈməʊtɪvli/, U.S. /ˌloʊkəˈmoʊdɪvli/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: locomotive adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < locomotive adj. + -ly suffix2.
With regard to locomotion or movement from one position or place to another.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > [adverb]
alonga1393
'long1663
locomotively1729
translationally1893
1729 C. Place Ess. Vindic. Visible Creation 104 A Lamb [is] no sooner yean'd, but is aware..of its having Legs,..and has the conscious skill of immediately working them locomotively.
1791 Diary; or, Woodfall's Reg. 4 Jan. 2/2 I have nothing locomotively in view by this enquiry.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xv, in All Year Round 26 Jan. 363/1 He always slouched, locomotively, with his eyes on the ground.
1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1883) I. iv. 63 A New York hack coupé is superior structurally, decoratively, and locomotively to one of our four-wheelers.
1909 Public 30 Apr. 417/2 That locomotively reversed Personage..is a Legislator. He walks Backward because the God he worships is Precedent.
1978 J. L. Parker Once a Runner xxxiv. 197 Now within 48 hours, he would be lacing very tightly those thin kangaroo skin slippers with pin spikes and he would attempt to overtake the most locomotively efficient homo sapiens to yet trod [sic] the earth.
2008 A. C. Danto in S. Walden Photogr. & Philos. (2010) xiii. 299 A famous painting..—Frith's Derby Day of 1858—shows no fewer than ten horses in this visually convincing but locomotively false posture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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