单词 | rawly |
释义 | rawlyadv. 1. a. Crudely; imperfectly; in an insufficient or unsatisfactory manner. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adverb] > roughly or rudely rawlyc1454 rowly1562 roughly1565 rudely1658 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adverb] > without proficiency rawly1581 insatisfactorily1646 incompetently1653 wretchedly1677 terribly1906 c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 56 Ech special craft..whanne it is had in moost parfijt wise..and in redi maner, þanne þilk..craft is a ‘wisdom’ in comparisoun..to þe maner in which it was had bifore rawli..or vnredili. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2196/1 The story is but rawly and imperfectly touched before. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions v. 32 Counterfeat the letter or some letterlike deuise first rawly and rudely. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. ii. 4 The English comming over so rawly and uncomfortably provided. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 334 Were these Principles which I rawly and briefly touch on here, pursu'd by Learned Men [etc.]. 1754 T. Birch Mem. Reign Queen Elizabeth iii. 232 The matter was but rawly imparted to Mr. Bodley, and had many points in it to be duly consider'd. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Rawly, inadequately. 1991 Yankee Jan. 65/1 He is a burly man with a head of rawly barbered silver hair. ΚΠ 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 91/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I The Archbishop of Dublyn rawlie digestyng the Vicedeputie his long absence. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > barely, scarcely, only, or just uneathc1200 scarcely1297 albusyc1325 onlepyc1350 anerly1381 barec1400 scarce1413 scantlyc1440 narrowlyc1450 scant1492 barelya1513 hardly?1532 faintly1544 nakedly1589 just1603 rawly1607 just1627 badly1715 scrimp1756 bare-weighta1763 scrimplya1774 jimp1814 jistc1820 1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme iv. sig. H2v The world is verye loath to praise me, Tis Rawlye friendes with me. 1651 H. L'Estrange Answer Marques of Worcester's Paper 65 Amongst the antients there is none at all, or very rawly any mention of Purgatory. 2. With to leave.Virtually as object complement, and hence, as N.E.D. (1903) says, ‘often in quasi-adjectival use’. ΚΠ a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 20 Eiton-College, begon to be buildid by Henry the vi. but left very onperfect and rauly. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. Aiv Nichomachus left Tindarides rawly, for feare of anger, not for want of Art. 1615 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching in Wks. (1620) I. 599 If I left the matter so rawly, I might fall at vnawares into two extremities. a1636 J. Rogers Godly Expos. First Epist. Peter (1650) i. 59 Howsoever the more ancient of them [sc. Papists] are to be reverenced, and did worthily oppose & conclude against the Heresies of their Times; yet even in them some things are left rawly. 1672 T. Alleine Life & Death J. Alleine vi. 76 Some of you are here to very great disadvantage, as to your Affairs in the World, having left your business so rawly at home in your Shops. b. Perhaps: abruptly, precipitately; left destitute. rare (now only with allusion to quot. 1600). N.E.D. (1903) adopts the 1623 Folio reading of the Henry V passage, interpreting rawly as ‘at an immature age’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adverb] > at an immature age rawly1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. i. 140 Some swearing: Some their wiues rawly left: Some leauing their children poore behind them [1623 their Wiues, left poore behind them..their Children rawly left]. 1991 R. Davies Murther & Walking Spirits ii. vii. 55 Between being a rich widow, and being a soldier's wife rawly left, hoping for a pension from the British, there is a great difference. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > unfamiliarity with, inexperience > [adverb] uncunninglya1340 rowly1562 rawly1570 imperitely1657 1570 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (new ed.) ii. 131 Had you wel considered these thinges, M. Harding, yee would not so rawly haue thus concluded. 1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 13 To reject it, as this one Scot hath done very rawly and unadvisedly. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xxxiv. 309 How many euils doe come vpon the sending of schollars so rawly thither. 1680 R. Baxter Let. in Answer to Mr. Dodwell 97 To tell you the truth, I entered so rawly, that..I remember not that I took that Oath. 1696 J. Sergeant Method to Sci. Preface They serve for nothing but to pour out indigestedly what they had rawly taken in. 1700 E. Howard Remarks New Philos. Des-Cartes Pref. sig. cv Which cold regard, or at best, but a luke-warm respect to Science; is no small Cause, that many of our youthful Nobility and Gentry so rawly return from Academies and Tutors. 1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. II Rawly, in a raw manner; unskilfully, newly.] 4. In an immature condition or state; in a manner not yet fully developed. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adverb] > immaturely rawly1573 crudely1638 immaturely1736 inconditely1822 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 938 Althoughe they might order ye child, as ill as they ordered ye other, yt to rawly came to Christendome: yet would not the parentes being alreadie Christened, bring their Children in such bondage. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 49 When yoong men shal come thus rawly and untrained, to heare the divisions, reasons & arguments of Philosophers, flat contrary to such opinions, they will at first be much astonied. 1682 R. Baxter Answer Mr. Dodwell & Dr. Sherlocke v. 97 To tell you the truth, I entered so rawly, that though I well remember my Subscription, I remember not that I took that Oath. 1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 135 He who wrote ‘Erechtheus’ may be rawly politic At home where Kleophon is ripe. 1955 E. Blishen Roaring Boys ii. 99 For..two years I had been rawly warring with my classes. 1979 Chatelaine Jan. 64/3 The secret realm in which their love flowered—so rawly, with such unanticipated greed! 2001 Time 13 Aug. 60 The letters and drawings, which tend to be dirty and rawly funny. 5. So as to be bare or exposed. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1924 ‘L. Malet’ Dogs of Want ix. 270 Every nerve of his body seeming rawly outside his skin instead of normally and decently covered by it. 1983 M. Gee Burning Book viii. 134 Human beings who came in ones ache to be a part of a couple. Rose ached rawly for Frank. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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