| 释义 |
deliciously, adv.|dɪˈlɪʃəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a delicious manner.
1. So as to afford intense pleasure; delightfully.
c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 71 Herknynge hise Mynstrals hir thynges pleye Beforn hym at the bord deliciously. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 19 He..repayred the places ryght delycyously. 1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. 577 No cost being spared either to purchase the greatest rarities, or to dress them deliciously. 1792A. Young Trav. France 259 There was something so deliciously amiable in her character. 1863E. C. Clayton Queens of Song II. 322 Her voice was invariably pure, true, and deliciously sweet. 1865Livingstone Zambesi v. 106 The air was deliciously cool. 1883Manch. Exam. 19 Dec. 5/3 The explanation is deliciously grotesque.
b. With intense delight or enjoyment.
1696Stanhope Chr. Pattern (1711) 290 Yet does He..importune us to sit and eat deliciously with him. 1706Reflex. upon Ridicule 239 He deliciously imbibes the Elogies that are given him. 1799Southey Love Elegies iv, O'er the page of Love's despair, My Delia bent deliciously to grieve. 1864Skeat Uhland's Poems 294 Beneath its shade he oft would sit And dream deliciously.
†2. Luxuriously, voluptuously, sumptuously.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 207 I. 6617 Anoþer spyce ys yn glotonye, To ete ouer delycyusly. c1340Hampole Prose Tr. iii. 6 A ȝonge man..vn-chastely and delycyousely lyfande and full of many synnys. c1400Rom. Rose 6729 If he have peraventure..Lyved over deliciously. 1557N. T. (Genev.) Luke xvi. 19 A certayne ryche man, which..fared deliciously euery day. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 102 The King..deliciously tooke his pleasure. 1690J. Palmer in Andros Tracts I. 54 Did his Excellency lye upon Beds of Down, and fare Delishously every day? a1800Cowper Iliad (ed. 2) xxiv. 56 The lion..Makes inroad on the flocks, that he may fare Deliciously at cost of mortal man.
†3. With fondness, fondly. Obs.
c1400Test. Love i. (1560) 275 b/2 She [Love] gan deliciously mee comfort with sugred words. a1440Found. St. Barthol. 61 His hors, that so deliciously he louyd, and so negligently hadde lost. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 143 b/1 An heremyte..reteyned nothyng but a catte wyth whyche he playde ofte and helde it in his lappe delyciously. |