单词 | melodiously |
释义 | melodiouslyadv. In a melodious manner; tunefully. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [adverb] > musically or harmoniously melodiouslya1449 harmonically1589 harmoniously1611 accordant1755 symphoniously1757 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adverb] > melodious or harmonious sweetly1340 melodiouslya1449 sweet1568 soot1579 tunably1586 harmonically1589 consort1590 harmoniously1611 tunefully1656 symphoniously1757 nightingaly1870 a1449 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 766 (MED) The yelwe Swan..Ageyn his deth melodyously syngyng. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall i. ix I can singe so melodiouslye, that verye Hermogene, Woulde enuye me or if he harde. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 180 Their discourses are heauenly,..their tongues melodiously tuned instruments. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xlv. 879 Birds, which sing melodiously with sweete and pleasant songs. 1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 23 He quavers in his musical Aires melodiously. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo ix, in Wks. (1721) III. 253 Ferventio's Song..Instructive, and melodiously grave. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 297 The poor Papua people..follow nature unvitiated, and sing most melodiously. 1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama x. 97 Ganges..rippled round melodiously. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 63 Memnon son of Morning, the representative of all promising youths who have died a premature death, and whose memory is melodiously prolonged to the latest morning. 1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 743/1 His melodiously delivered sermons..were distinctly popular. 1967 H. Porter in Coast to Coast 1965–6 174 ‘Good af-ter-noon, Mis-ter Pel-lot,’ melodiously and pentatonically in duet chanted the Misses Wee. 1991 A. Masters Traffic (BNC) 47 Someone was singing, sweetly and melodiously. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.a1449 |
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