单词 | opprobriously |
释义 | opprobriouslyadv. In an opprobrious manner; with opprobrium. 1. With opprobrious language; abusively; insultingly; insolently. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [adverb] foullyc1400 opprobriouslya1513 revilingly1548 invectivelyc1550 railingly1552 abusively?1593 vituperiously1632 opprobrious1716 vituperatively1831 abusefully1914 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxxvi. f. cxv He rebuked hym otherwyse than was syttynge with his honour, And called hym obprobriously. 1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 453 The immaculate Lamb,..who being opprobriously railed at, opened not his mouth. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon To Parl. sig. A3 It serv'd him..to inveigh opprobriously against the person, branding him with no lesse then impudence. 1705 Boston News-let. 22 Oct. 2/2 Driving of Cattle through the Town of Dedham to Boston..and opprobriously answering those who disswaded him there-from. 1757 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. II. v. 277 The King, whom they opprobriously called the Black Bastard. 1843 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life I. xvii. 255 The world (as divines opprobriously term it). 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 82 He had, at Versailles, spoken opprobriously of the Irish nation. 1926 in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) 550/2 Shitepoke,..applied opprobriously to a person. 1962 Standard Jewish Encycl. 1308 Meshummad (Heb.): a convert to Christianity; an apostate (used opprobriously). 1992 Daily Tel. 18 Apr. (Weekend Suppl.) p. xxv/1 I heard the word [Socialism]..only from Tories and Liberal Democrats, opprobriously. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [adverb] shamelyc1200 shendfully?c1225 to one's shamec1275 shamefullya1300 despitouslyc1320 foula1325 shondfullyc1330 inhonestly1340 shendshipfully1388 dishonestlyc1430 shamouslyc1440 ignominiously1553 slanderously1563 reproachfully1567 opprobriously1569 ingloriously1576 dishonourably1590 indignly1593 disgracefully1604 despitely1619 vituperiously1632 to a reproacha1715 shaming1970 1569 T. Blague Schole of Wise Conceytes 395 A certen Countryman playing the part of Christ in a playe, was beaten and euill entreated... Then a Baker tooke his part, whome the Iewes did likewise handle opprobriously. 1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 39 The Iewes finding it [sc. an image of Christ], vsed it most opprobriously, & pearced it with a lance. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Kent 63 The Pagans therein did beat and abuse both him [sc. St Austin]and his associats, opprobriously tying Fish-tails to their back-side. a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 105 The Fish, whereby Fornicatours were so opprobriously and irksomely punished. a1731 J. Hughes On Our Saviour's Incarnation in Misc. in Verse & Prose (1737) 116 Increas'd from Infancy's imperfect Years To smiling Youth, and thence absolv'd to Man..Opprobriously he set, as lowly as he began. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.a1513 |
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