单词 | to a wonder |
释义 | > as lemmasto a wonder b. to a wonder, in early use also †to wonder [after French à merveille] , marvellously, wonderfully, marvellously well. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adverb] wonderlyc897 sellya1000 wonderc1175 wonderfullya1300 marvellouslya1382 marvellousa1400 marvelly?a1400 wonderful14.. wonderslyc1489 to marvelc1500 wondersc1528 wondrously1535 prodigiously1541 wondrous1557 admirably1570 admiredly1598 to a miracle?1614 marls1615 amazingly1650 miridically1652 mirificously1657 surprisingly1661 to wonder1661 astonishingly1668 prodigious1694 strikingly1752 amazing1760 à merveille1762 astoundingly1826 mirifically1873 breathtakingly1887 eye-poppingly1959 mind-bogglingly1973 staggeringly1976 mind-blowingly1977 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 175 The unparallel'd Des-Cartes hath unridled their dark Physiology, and to wonder solv'd their Motions. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 208 Sentences in Lat: & Greeke which on occasion he would produce even to wonder. 1698 J. Crowne Caligula iv. 31 Y'are to a wonder fair. 1751 tr. Female Foundling II. 11 He is better to a Wonder. 1792 W. Cowper Let. 11 June (1984) IV. 110 His motives were not, nor could be, of the amorous kind, for she was ugly to a wonder. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xxxi. 279 I have flattered him to a wonder! 1843 W. M. Thackeray Mr. & Mrs. Berry ii He ties his white neckcloth to a wonder. < as lemmas |
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