单词 | captiously |
释义 | captiouslyadv. In a captious manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [adverb] > captiously captiously1539 cavillously1561 cavillingly1570 carpingly1577 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > [adverb] captiously1539 cavillously1561 cavillingly1570 1539 Bible (Great) Luke xi. 53 The lawears and the Pharyses began..capciously to aske him many thynges. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1196/1 Capciouslye askyng often of Bradford aunswer to thynges concernyng othes. 1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 58 A fallacy in sophistry, that is, when a saying is captiously taken and turned to another sense. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 58 Objections..captiously urged. 1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood II. xii. 306 The father..had been behaving captiously and unjustly to his son. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1539 |
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