单词 | phrased |
释义 | phrasedadj. 1. Characterized by phrases; expressed in phrases. Usually with modifying adverb: expressed or worded in the manner specified. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [adjective] > expressed in phrases phrased1557 worded1833 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes Prol. f. A ijv Suche, so straunge, and high phrased was the matter whiche he talked of. 1600 W. Vaughan Golden-groue iii. xli Making deceitfull & fine phrazed libels. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 21 High phrased bablings, Pharisaicall boastings and stridulencies. 1819 R. Southey Life & Corr. (1851) 378/2 Shields's note is a curiosity in its kind. It is so choicely phrased. 1834 J. G. Lockhart Let. 2 July in Notes & Queries (1943) 185 218/2 I think her Essay on Lady Macbeth ingenious & often powerfully phrazed. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Oct. 2/2 The quaintly phrased advertisements are genuine. 1953 J. B. Priestley Rev. 27 Nov. in F. Donaldson Yours, Plum (1990) 170 A beautifully phrased page of vitriol which will haunt them for the rest of their lives. 1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 1406/3 His was..a phrased rather than a cadenced poetry. 1995 G. Vidal Palimpsest 372 The Palace sent a delicately phrased reply to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Radziwill, as divorced people, were not invitable. 2. Music. (Of a performance) of a melody, piece of music, etc.: formed into phrases (in a specified way). ΚΠ 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. i. 124 John Bennet..seems to have a melody more phrased and chantante than most of his cotemporaries. 1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio II. 332 The air should be phrased and symmetric. 1928 Times 11 Feb. 8/3 Haydn's violoncello Concerto in D must be mentioned for Mlle. Raya Garbousova's finely phrased performance of the solo part. 1940 D. Hall Record Bk. (1941) iv. 270 Moriz Rosenthal..has endowed the music with a true feeling of intimacy in his beautifully phrased readings. 1993 Classic CD June 55/1 If anything deserves the adjective ‘serene’, it's Sinopoli's beautifully phrased account of the Adagio. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1557 |
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