| 释义 |
supposedly, adv.|səˈpəʊzɪdlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In the way of supposition; by supposition; as is (or was) supposed.
1611W. Sclater Key (1629) 293, I..would not easily bee brought to diuulge my conceits supposedly true. 1629Bp. Hall Reconciler 33 Little doe these men see the toyles, and anxieties that attend this supposedly-pleasing eminence. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. Apol. 5 So that the Rebaptized husband would not pray with his (supposedly) unbaptized wife. 1717Berkeley Tour Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 538 Beneventum..Cathedral..built supposedly on the foundation of an old temple. 1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 544 This supposedly exemplary mother too was the educatress of Caligula. 1865J. Grote Moral Ideals (1876) 202 ‘Love your enemies’ (it being supposedly your friends that you do love). 1881Athenæum 25 June 848/3 Nor is the supposedly parallel passage at all to the purpose. 1916Times 5 June 8/3 Our three battle cruisers had been blown up, supposedly as the result of gun-fire.
†2. Feignedly, pretendedly. Obs.
1618T. Gainsford Hist. P. Warbeck 33 By that time..she verily belieued he was the same she had supposedly contriued: & he quite forgot, that euer his first originall came out of the Dunghill. |