单词 | otherwise-minded |
释义 | otherwise-mindedadj.n. Chiefly U.S. A. adj. Of an independent, individual, or contrary cast of mind; thinking in a different way. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [adjective] > holding different opinion from one specified contrary-mindeda1555 other-minded1593 otherwise-minded1856 1611 Bible (King James) Phil. iii. 15 If in any thing ye be otherwise minded. View more context for this quotation] 1856 Bentley's Misc. July 108 Some dozen years later we find Southey thus writing to..a sufficiently ‘otherwise-minded’ correspondent. 1889 J. R. Lowell Walton in Latest Lit. Ess. (1891) 72 Many-membered periods which in unskilful hands become otherwise-minded as a herd of swine. 1917 Amer. Hist. Rev. 22 682 Otherwise-minded Rhode Island went Democratic in 1801. 1936 Pacific Affairs 9 336 The otherwise-minded and still truly Oriental mass of the population. B. n. With the. Otherwise-minded people as a class. ΚΠ 1926 Polit. Sci. Q. 41 364 There is no place outside the group for the otherwise-minded. 1949 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 43 13 But meanwhile, let not America threaten the otherwise-minded. 1968 William & Mary Q. 25 585 In religion, there were a surprising number of the otherwise-minded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1856 |
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