单词 | more than ordinary |
释义 | > as lemmasmore than ordinary c. more than ordinary: (a) more in number or amount than usual; (b) (with adjective or noun) unusual; exceptional, to a greater degree than is usual; (also used adverbially) unusually, exceptionally (now rare).Formerly also †greater (also better, worse, etc.) than ordinary. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > a great quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > rather more than > more than usual more than ordinary1560 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely > remarkable or extraordinary > remarkably or extraordinarily more than ordinary1560 and a half1636 out of (also beyond) (all) recognition1824 and how!1865 like nobody's business1930 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxxxixv He that taketh yerely of his subiectes more than ordinarye, iii. C. M. Ducates. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xx. 215 Surplusage..lieth not only in a word or two more than ordinary, but in whole clauses. 1606 J. Hind Eliosto Libidinoso ii. 85 sig. M3 Eliostoes..more than ordinarie obseruation of dutie. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 22 Though a licencer should happ'n to be judicious more then ordnary. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 122 The Clouds being more than ordinary thick. a1704 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. (ed. 2) I. §107 This designation of the person our author is more than ordinary obliged to take care of. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. ii. 10 When she aim'd to be worse-temper'd than ordinary. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xix. 24 If Eva, now, was not more angel than ordinary, she would be ruined. 1880 F. H. Burnett in Scribner's Monthly Feb. 518/2 Miss Ferrol became aware..that Louisiana was regarding her with more than ordinary interest. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 4/1 A hydroplane boat having more than ordinary pretensions to speed. 1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm x. 80 Its [sc. the wild oat's] reputation as a weed of more than ordinary powers. 2002 Cathedral Music Oct. 41/2 Its specification..being of more than ordinary excellence, with its pedal having unusual amplitude and completeness. < as lemmas |
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