| 释义 |
explicitly, adv.|ɛkˈsplɪsɪtlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In an explicit manner.
1. As a matter of ‘explicit’ knowledge, belief, or statement; expressly and not merely by implication. Opposed to implicitly. Now only (exc. Theol.) with reference to statements, in which use it approaches sense 2.
a1638Mede Wks. iv. lxxvii. 863 That the Roman Church..erreth not in..Fundamentalibus Fidei Articulis, because explicitely they profess them, howsoever..implicitely and by consequent they subvert them. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. xiv. §8. 217 Every civill Law hath a penalty annexed to it, either explicitly or implicitly. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. 1842 I. 511 He explicitly limits his ideas of resistance. 1875Manning Mission H. Ghost xvi. 437 Faith believes the whole revelation of God explicitly so far as it knows it; implicitly so far as it is not known as yet. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 323 Passages of various dates speak explicitly of the use of the compass for land purposes.
2. In a definite and unambiguous manner; unequivocally.
1756R. Lowth Let. to Bp. Warburton 129, I thought it incumbent upon me to tell you explicitly..that I was not to be frightened. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian iii, Speak explicitly and to the point. 1841Miall Nonconf. I. 1 We..avow most explicitly that [etc.].
3. With detailed exposition.
1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 24 This part of the office of conscience is beyond my present design explicitly to consider. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 195 Will you tell me a little more explicitly what [etc.]? |