| 释义 |
erectly, adv.|ɪˈrɛktlɪ|
[f. erect a. + -ly2.]
In an erect manner or posture.
In speaking of posture the sense is now commonly expressed by the adj., as to walk erect.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. i. 181 Birds..generally carry their heads erectly like man. 1682― Chr. Mor. 99 Be not under any brutal metempsychosis while thou livest and walkest about erectly under the scheme of man. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xii. (1813) 144 A weak tree is helped much by training it more erectly than usual. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. vi. 225 A goat walking erectly on his hinder feet. 1808Scott Marm. ii. xxxii, The locks, that wont her brow to shade, Start up erectly from her head. 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) II. 4 The Greeks were under disadvantages..yet they rose through them vigorously and erectly.
b. Comb. erectly-spreading a. Bot. ‘between erect and spreading’.
1849in Paxton Bot. Dict. |