单词 | warily |
释义 | warilyadv. In a wary manner, cautiously, †watchfully. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > [adverb] warelyc897 circumspectly?a1475 hooly1513 charely1545 circumstantly1549 warily1552 nicely1575 charily1577 fearfully1592 gingerly1596 cautelously1610 circumspectively1616 cautionately1619 tenderlya1628 cautiously1699 carefully1710–11 guardedly1784 canny1786 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Warilye, solerter, uigilanter. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. v. sig. Dv Shee's kept as warily, as is your gold: Neuer do's come abroad, neuer takes ayre, But at a windore. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vii. 56 They that..ride not warily, fall into foule Boggs. View more context for this quotation 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 33 More warily are we to receive the relations of Philes, who in Greeke Iambicks delivered the proprieties of Animals. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 914 It [sc. honey] is a heavenly gift, and very profitable for men, if they use it well and warily. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 32 Take ripe Puff-balls. Break them warily. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 163 Surrounded by snares in which an ordinary youth would have perished, William learned to tread at once warily and firmly. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 396 Their adversaries defend themselves warily from an invisible world. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1552 |
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