释义 |
diˈscretively, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a discretive manner; disjunctively; distinctively.
a1638Mede Daniel's Weeks Wks. (1672) iii. 701 The particle [kî] (Nehem. xiii. 6) seems not to be taken rationally for (Quia), but discretively for [kî 'im] (Sed, But). a1654Bp. J. Richardson Observ. O. Test. 237 (T.) The plural number being used discretively to note out and design one of many. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxvii. (1870) II. 338 Reasoning is either from the whole to its parts; or from all the parts, discretively, to the whole they constitute collectively. |